It's a little of both but it has really taken off over the last about five years. Downtown Huntsville, Inc has done a really good job of promoting downtown. Lo

It's a little of both but it has really taken off over the last about five years. Downtown Huntsville, Inc has done a really good job of promoting downtown. Lots of new apartment buildings have gone up downtown, and some more are planned (there's a whole new area opening up soon on the other side of Big Spring Park where the old Holiday Inn used to be). There's also a new trend of turning parking garages into ground-floor retail. Happened with the Clinton St. garage, and the new garage they're planning on Greene St. will have ground-floor retail. The area right around the courthouse is still mostly law offices, but a few restaurants have started moving in there and I hope that trend will continue. My company relocated from Research Park to a historic building downtown a couple years go. We're two blocks off from the courthouse. It's been fun to watch this happen day-to-day.