| State to Widen I-65, Construction to begin this fall | |
| - Shelby County Reporter | July 9, 2008 |
| After years of planning, the widening of Interstate 65 from Pelham to Calera may soon become a reality... | |
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| Shelby project targets business | |
| - The Birmingham News | February 10, 2008 |
| EGS Commercial Real Estate plans to develop an $8 million speculative industrial building in fast-growing Shelby County, a project that is expected to lure new and expanding businesses... | |
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| Officials allow running line beneath I-65 to spur development | |
| - The Birmingham News | January 30, 2008 |
| The Alabaster Water Board has agreed to jump-start plans to go under I-65 with a water line that's expected to open up areas around U.S. 31 and Shelby County 87 for development... | |
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| Alabaster developer plans 1,000 homes, school, park | |
| - The Birmingham News | January 28, 2008 |
| Developers are moving ahead with what would be Alabaster's largest subdivision in recent years... | |
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| State's automakers rev up record in 2007 - 738,832 vehicles roll off assembly lines | |
| - The Birmingham News | January 11, 2008 |
| Alabama automakers shifted their assembly lines into high gear last year, rolling out 738,832 vehicles and setting a state record on the eve of a premier event for the global automotive industry... | |
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| Shelby looks decade ahead to shed commuter image | |
| - The Birmingham News | November 30, 2007 |
| Shelby County Manager Alex Dudchock says the County Commission is looking 10 years down the road with a new public-private cooperative initiative to make Shelby County not only a desirable place to live, but also a desirable place to work... | |
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| Global Financial buys land, plans to employ 350 | |
| - Birmingham Business Journal | November 9, 2007 |
| Global Financial Aid Services Inc. has purchased five acres and a 35,000-square-foot facility in Birmingham to establish a contact center that will employ up to 350 people within the next few years... | |
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| County gets richer as homes, jobs shift south | |
| - Birmingham Business Journal | November 2, 2007 |
| Shelby County's population explosion, coupled with a booming economy in recent years, has made Birmingham's bedroom community the Southeast's eighth wealthiest suburban county... | |
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| Shelby County nabs Jasper Engine facility | |
| - Birmingham Business Journal | May 4, 2007 |
| Jasper Engines & Transmissions is building a facility in Alabaster to distribute its remanufactured engine drive train components on four acres in Shelby West Corporate Park... | |
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| Shelby Baptist sets expansion -- $100 million project boosts private rooms | |
| - The Birmingham News | September 23, 2006 |
| The expansion plan involves a 167,000-square-foot addition that would be built partly on top of Shelby Baptist's emergency department. The proposed South Tower would have two floors with 98 beds total... | |
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| Shelby County: The State's Booming Growth Area | |
| - Birmingham Metropolitan Development Board | August 31, 2006 |
| Shelby County is experiencing one of the state's biggest economic growth spurts, thanks in part to the partnership between the public sector government officials and private sector business leaders... | |
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| County, city governments take on big capital projects | |
| - The Birmingham News | June 14, 2006 |
| The Shelby County of today is far from the Shelby County of just five years ago, with thousands more people and houses... | |
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| $33.5M water plant will nurture growth in Shelby County | |
| - Birmingham Business Journal | June 9, 2006 |
| In response to a rapidly growing population, Shelby County has broken ground on a $33.5 million water treatment plant. B.L. Harbert LLC of Birmingham was awarded the contract... | |
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| Shelby industrial deals keep Realtors hopping... | |
| - Birmingham Business Journal | May 12, 2006 |
| Eason, Graham & Sandner Inc. is filling a pair of industrial buildings, one in Oxmoor and one in west Shelby, and bringing a new employer to Birmingham in the process.... | |
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| Census shows where metro area grow... | |
| - The Birmingham News | April 18, 2006 |
| The seven-county Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area has grown by 38,820 people since 2000, and 72 percent of that increase occurred in Shelby County.... | |
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| Georgia company sprouts in Alabaster... | |
| - The Birmingham News | March 2, 2006 |
| A Georgia-based wood products company is investing more than $4 million to open a new facility in Alabaster with nearly 30 jobs.... | |
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| Shelby expects 3,315 new homes ... | |
| - The Birmingham News | January 3, 2006 |
| The state's fastest-growing county will grow even faster in 2006, officials say..... | |
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| Shelby County closes in on purchase of land for park... | |
| - The Birmingham News | December 21, 2005 |
| Shelby County officials said they are on the brink of securing more than half the property for a planned 300-plus-acre park in the western part of the county..... | |
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| Banks chasing the money in booming Shelby... | |
| -Birmingham Business Journal | December 16, 2005 |
| On Monday, Wachovia Corp. will open its first denovo bank branch in Alabama at the new Colonial Promenade shopping center in Alabaster, and it's no wonder.... | |
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| Shelby County poverty remains lowest in state by wide margin... | |
| -The Birmingham News | December 7, 2005 |
| Shelby County's poverty rate remains by far the lowest of any Alabama county, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau.... | |
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| Enrollment leaps 5 percent over 2004... | |
| -The Birmingham News | November 2, 2005 |
| Shelby County schools have grown by 5 percent since last year, more than any other school district in the Birmingham metro area, according to figures submitted to the state Department of Education recently.... | |
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| As suburbia grows, so grows hot job market ... | |
| -The Birmingham News | October 31, 2005 |
| By 2030, new jobs in Jefferson and Shelby counties will be found in Liberty Park, the Oxmoor Valley, along the Interstate 65 corridor in Shelby County and in Birmingham... | |
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| Jobs soar in Shelby; other MSA counties not so lucky... | |
| -The Birmingham Business Journal | August 19, 2005 |
| While the number of people employed in Shelby County has surged in recent years, jobs in many adjacent counties have declined... | |
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| Industrial park gets speculative building... | |
| -The Birmingham News | August 14, 2005 |
| Commercial developers are betting millions of dollars that there is a growing need for more warehouse and distribution space in Shelby County... | |
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| Shelby County outpaces Tuscaloosa in Census Bureau population report ... | |
| -The Birmingham News | May 3, 2005 |
| In 1970 rural Shelby County had 38,037 people. Now the booming suburb appears to have passed Tuscaloosa as Alabama's fifth largest county.... | |
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Shelby crime lowest in region Officers' cooperation, residents' income said to be factors... | |
| -The Birmingham News | April 25, 2005 |
| For years, Shelby County's crime rate has been a source of pride for law enforcement and a selling point to the hundreds of families moving into the county.... | |
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| Cell phone-related company moving to Shelby West park... | |
| -The Birmingham News | October 7, 2004 |
| Shelby County has landed another tenant with expansion plans for its corporate park off Interstate 65 in Alabaster. .... | |
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| Shelby's top for children, survey says... | |
| -The Birmingham News | October 1, 2004 |
| Montgomery- Shelby County, where the median family income is $64,105, once again tops an annual survey of child well-being in Alabama.... | |
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| Pelham Growth Booming | |
| -The Shelby News | June 30, 2004 |
| High on top of Double Oak Mountain, the hum of constant construction tells the story of Pelham..... | |
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| Shelby firm to expand, add 50 jobs | |
| -The Birmingham News | April 14, 2004 |
| An Alabaster company that produces glass for major automakers has begun a $6 million expansion that will bring more jobs to the city.... | |
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| Shelby leads metro area growth | |
| -The Birmingham News | April 9, 2004 |
| Continued growth in Shelby County led the way to an increase of about 21,400 people in the seven-county Birmingham-Hoover metro area between April 2000 and July 2003.... | |
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| Shelby County ranks tops in income, graduation rates | |
| -Shelby County Reporter | August 13, 2003 |
| Shelby County ranks tops in the state in many of the demographic categories listed by the Center for Demographic Research. The county was recognized for having the lowest teenage birth rate.... | |
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| Shelby Leads Children's List | |
| -The Birmingham News | September 5, 2002 |
| MONTGOMERY -- Shelby County provides the best conditions in Alabama for raising children, while counties in the proverty-ridden Black Belt fare worst in an annual study of child welfare indicators.... | |
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| Distributor Moves to Shelby | |
| -The Birmingham News | January 8, 2002 |
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One of Birmingham's oldest distribution companies is moving to Alabaster into a new office-warehouse that will more than double its size.... | |
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| Census: Shelby Fastest Growing | |
| -The Birmingham News | March 21, 2001 |
| Folks arrived in Shelby County in the last decade at the rate of a dozen a day. The population grew from 99,358 in 1990 to the 2000 head count of.... | |
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| Shelby County is Rated as Best in the State for Growth | |
| -The Birmingham Business Journal | December 15, 2000 |
| Of all Alabama counties, Shelby County has the greatest potential for future growth. Demographics Daily has analyzed the growth potential of all 1,341 Southern Counties and independent cities.... | |
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