MADISON, Ala. (WHNT) — On Wednesday, Madison Town Mayor Paul Finely delivered ‘the update of the city address’ in entrance of masses from the north Alabama trade nation.
For the 3rd age in a row, Finley is celebrating the expansion of his town.
“If you want to see what Madison looks like now, we are no longer on the west side, we’re right in the middle of Huntsville,” Finley mentioned.
That was once the spotlight of his cope with sooner than a packed area of commercial leaders on the Von Braun Middle Saturn Ballroom in Huntsville.
The sound of his message was once the alternate town has noticeable over the occasion age and the way they are going to proceed to look extra over the nearest age.
“When you’re a town of 4,000 in 1980 and then you turn around and you’re a town of 60,000 right now, it’s astronomic,” Finley mentioned.
Finley admits that maintaining with that expansion has been tricky, however he instructed Information 19 that with that expansion is much-needed consideration that can come to town’s infrastructure.
“Madison was going to grow regardless and what we are doing is managing that growth,” mentioned Finley. “The key is to make sure that we don’t overburden the school system, but we also want economic development.”
Evidence of that economic growth the mayor says is the transformation of Clift Farm and The town Madison. The occasion two years, the ones fields were a hotbed of unused building with a unused trade doping up each and every era that Finley says will keep growing.
“It’s 500 hundred acres at Clift and not only is the anchor of Toyota Field helpful but the interchange is going to make a big difference,” Finley mentioned. “We will fill out the rest of Town Madison because it’s our largest economic development project and so far, so good.”
Finley additionally mentioned that town leaders have their ocular on January of 2025 to finish the I-565 overpass, and so as to add a state of the art nation middle and a unused Fireplace station.
Finley additionally introduced plans to transform an worn Hexagon construction similar The town Madison right into a multi-million-dollar people protection annex.
