Silver Companies' signature Celebrate Destinations span hundreds of acres, comprise millions of square feet of commercial enterprise and incorporate numerous hotels and a regional conference center.
Features within the retail resorts are specifically designed to reflect the best each state has to offer. A main street entertainment experience reflects its food, culture and music while special activities such as an indoor water park, live theatre venue, eco-adventure site or a drive-in multi-screen and a foundation of retail serve the local population as well as traveling businessmen and women and tourists.
One of the central philosophies that further sets apart Celebrate Destinations from other opportunities are the one-of-a-kind attractions designed to draw visitors from hundreds of miles away.
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March 5, 2010 - Silver Companies' Celebrate Virginia, Carter's Corner, Apple Grove and other projects currently in development lie within one of the richest counties in the U.S. according to Forbes' list of America's 25 richest counties -- Stafford Country, Va.
Louden, Va. ranked #1 overall and five other of the richest counties also lie on the outskirts of Washington: Fairfax County, Va., Arlington Country, Va., Prince William County, Va, Charles County, Md. and Alexandria City, Va.
February 27, 2010 -Korean automaker Kia formally marked the opening of its new Georgia assembly plant on Friday, as new jobs and investment continue to grow around the $1 billion facility near the Alabama state line.
February 23, 2010 -Spurred by the new Kia plant, Fort Benning expansion and other appealing attributes of the area where Celebrate Alabama will also make its home, another developer -- Georgia-based Greater Valley Group -- announced plans to invest $1.5 billion in the area by 2018.
Kia employs about 1,200 people, and the Korean automaker's workforce is expected to ramp up to 2,500. Related suppliers have so far created more than 3,600 jobs in Alabama alone, with at least 900 slated for Chambers County alone. Chambers is the county just above Lee, which is where the Silver Companies' Celebrate Alabama retail, entertainment and attractions destination will be located.
February 22, 2010 -Auburn-Opelika ranks in the top 25 for anticipated employment growth (out of 387 metro areas ) according to Moody's Economy's latest report on expected employment growth. Huntsville captured the second spot and Mobile ranked fourth. Other Alabama communities' rankings in anticipated employment growth were Montgomery, 29; Birmingham-Hoover area, 53; and Tuscaloosa, 61.
February 18, 2010 -Kia set wheels in motion that will benefit West Georgia as well as Celebrate Alabama's Lee County and other neighboring Alabama counties to boot. A Georgia Tech study cites more than 20,000 jobs, including construction and service-industry work, by 2012 for the nine-county region surrounding West Point.
February 18, 2010 - Time to hit the road.Start brainstorming all the cross-country trips you can take at the 5th annual Fredericksburg RV & Camping Expo coming Friday, February 26th through Sunday, February 28th at the Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center at Celebrate Virginia.
Today’s recreation vehicles (RV’s) come in a variety of sizes and styles – one for every taste and budget . This show will have the newest models and the best deals of the season.
February 2, 2010 - Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center will be ready to serve the area in less than four months, with the official ribbon-cutting slated for June 7, 2010.
January 29, 2010 -Plans will move forward with the $8.5 million Phase II of the Robotics Technology Park at Calhoun Community College in Montgomery, Ala. -- just one county away from Celebrate Alabama. At last report, Phase I (a $17.6 million, 52,000-square-foot research and robotics training facility) is past the 25 percent completion point.
Governor Riley: “This facility is already highly in demand. When completed, it will be the best robotics facility not just in this country but in the world."
January 21, 2010 -Alabama continues to grow its industries, celebrating the opening this month in Birmingham SurModic's new 90,000 sq. ft. biotechnology headquarters and plant.
January 15, 2010 - Kalahari Resort's Celebrate Virginia water park project secured a $25-million boost from Gov. Tim Kaine's office this week through the federal stimulus act. The tax-exempt financing should help Kalahari as it continues talks with banks and investors.
Fredericksburg expects the Celebrate Virginia located water park will generate $64 million in new city revenues, after the incentives are accounted for. In the meantime, the construction alone is expected to serve as an economic stimulus for the area.
January 13, 2010 -Alabama business leaders are growing more confident about the economy -- and in particular their state's economy -- although a broad-based recovery isn't expected this quarter, according to a 9th annual survey by The Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama.
January 13, 2010 -Another first to come out of Alabama: BioCryst receives approval to market the first commercial drug in Japan. (Just two months ago according to the Triangle Business Journal, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services bought $22.5 million worth of the H1N1 flu treatment from the Birmingham, Ala.-based biotechnology company.
January 12, 2010 -Just last month Hyundai announced that all 2011 Sonatas would come with 4-cylinder engines, and now, so does the second model produced in Montgomery, Ala.
January 08, 2010 -The Army is reassigning more than 300 more people to Redstone as it moves its Contracting Command and Expeditionary Contracting Command to Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. The relocation -- expected to be completed in August 2011 -- is in addition to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure decision that is moving about 4,700 Army and government positions to Redstone.
December 21, 2009 - Hanwha announced a second major expansion of their manufacturing facility in the Northeast Opelika Industrial Park. “This new expansion will increase the company’s total investment in Opelika to approximately $43 million,” according to a press release issued by the City of Opelika.
December 2, 2009 - Alabama ranks ninth when it comes to being entrepreneur-friendly, according to a new report by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. The state ranked in the Top 10 last year, but moved up one place for 2009.
December 2, 2009 - A Sonata that rolled down the assembly line at the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama plant in Montgomery this week marked the one-millionth made at the plant -- a huge milestone for Hyundai in Alabama.
Hyundai has become a major economic engine for Montgomery and central Alabama and the company and its employees now play huge roles in all facets of many central Alabama communities, not just Montgomery.
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February 2, 2010 - Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center will be ready to serve the area in less than four months, with the official ribbon-cutting slated for June 7, 2010.