Potential project at Delphi could be HUGE
While leading the official groundbreaking of Phase 2 of the Alabama Industrial Development and Training Institute (Alabama State Robotics Park) in Decatur, Bob Riley announced that a potential project at the vacant Delphi plant in town could be the biggest project that he has ever worked on (that includes the $4 Billion Thyssen Krupp steel mill).
This is welcome news, as thousands of people worked at the Delphi plant before it closed down, including my mother and two other people that live across the street from us.
North Alabama Center for the Arts, progress
The joint venture for a four year arts program, between Calhoun Community College, of Decatur, and Athens State University, in downtown Decatur cleared one of the last hurdles the other day with approval from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
They expect to break ground on the downtown campus in late fall or early winter. Completion of this project would mean the first institution of higher ed in Morgan County, which is if I'm not mistaken, the most populated county in the state with out a higher ed school.