Cummings Research Park

WHEREAS, Huntsville Research Park opened in 1962, and in 1973 it was renamed Cummings Research Park after visionary business leader Milton Cummings; and

WHEREAS, Cummings Research Park was founded to help support the nation’s most important aerospace and defense programs at NASA and the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal, and was a critical partner in putting America into space and mankind on the moon; and

WHEREAS, Cummings Research Park has become a catalyst of high-tech job growth and has grown to be the second-largest research park in the United States with more than 300 companies and 25,000 employees; and

WHEREAS, over the past 50 years, the State of Alabama has invested nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in the growth of Cummings Research Park; and

WHEREAS, the total payroll from employment in Cummings Research Park is nearly $2 billion per year, generating $280 million annually in state and local taxes from direct and indirect employment; and

WHEREAS, Cummings Research Park is a key economic development asset in the state of Alabama:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby proclaim October 15, 2012 as a day for the citizens of Alabama to honor 50 years of collaboration, research and progress at

Cummings Research Park

 

Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 15th day of October 2012.

 

      

Robert Bentley, Governor