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IEDC - Gold Award for Public-Private Partnership to Assist HomTex (2020)
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IEDC - Gold Award for Educators in Industry, a program in the category of Human Capital (2018)
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IEDC- Silver Award for AGCOR Steel Expansion/Retention Project, a project in the category of Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Single Event (2018)
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IEDC - Bronze Excellence in Economic Development Award for Recruitment of Sequence Health (2017)
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IEDC - Silver Excellence in Economic Development Award for Business Retention & Expansion (2014)
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#4 U.S. Micropolitan Area - (March 2023 Site Selection magazine)
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#1 in Alabama for Expanding Industry - (2022 rankings State of Alabama)
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#1 Best Place to Raise Children in Alabama - (2013 Bloomberg Businessweek)
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#122 out of 542 micropolitans in the Policom Economic Strength Rankings
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#6 Community that is a Manufacturing Location No-Brainer - (Southern Business & Development)
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#1 in the southeast for Overcoming Nature’s Adversity (for recovery following the April 2011 tornadoes - Southern Business & Development)
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#5 Most Business Friendly City in Alabama - (2014 Alabama Policy Institute)
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Finalist – Cullman Park & Recreation for the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 National Gold Medal Awards
