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Top economic development projects

//February 28, 2017//

Top economic development projects

// February 28, 2017//

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Top 15 projects by investment

Company Location Business Type Employment Investment
(millions)
Dominion Virginia Power2 Greensville County Natural gas-fired power station E 44 $1,300.00
Iron Mountain Information Management LLC Prince William County Data center N 25 350.00
Microsoft Corp. Mecklenburg County Data center E 44 251.59
Merck and Co. Rockingham County Biopharmaceutical manufacturing expansion E 0 168.00
RagingWire Enterprise Solutions Inc.1,2 Loudoun County Data center E 0 160.00
General Dynamics Fairfax County HQ; Global aerospace and defense company E 25 138.00
Dollar Tree Inc. Chesapeake Headquarters for Fortune 200 discount retail company E 600 110.00
Niagara Bottling LLC Chesterfield County Water bottling and plastic bottle manufacturing N 76 95.44
Deschutes Brewery Roanoke Craft brewery N 108 85.00
Eldor Corp. S.p.A1 Botetourt County Ignition coil and other automotive component manufacturing N 350 75.20
MillerCoors LLC 1 Rockingham County Brewery expansion E 27 60.00
Radford Army Ammunition Plant Pulaski County Natural gas power and steam plant for ammunition manufacturer E 0 60.00
Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc.1 Suffolk Food and beverage industry manufacturer N 135 58.80
Aldi U.S.1 Dinwiddie County Division headquarters and distribution center N 145 57.00
Polykon Manufacturing LLC1 Henrico County Chemical manufacturing for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries N 54 56.41

 1 Indicates foreign affiliation                2 Indicates non Virginia Economic Development Partnership-assisted project          E:expansion; N:new project; HQ: headquarters

Note: Projected employment at time of announcement. Includes only publicly announced projects in 2016.

Source: Virginia Economic Development Partnership

Top 15 projects by projected employment

Company Location Business Type Investment
(millions)
Employment
ADP Norfolk Human resources management software and services N $32.25 1,800
Geico Corp. Stafford County IT and call center for car insurance company E 1.17 798
JK Moving & Storage Loudoun County HQ; Moving, storage and relocation company E 19.00 751
CoStar Group Richmond Research and software development center for real estate information and analytics firm N 8.17 732
Dollar Tree Inc. Chesapeake Headquarters for Fortune 200 discount retail company E 110.00 600
Excella Consulting Arlington County IT consulting services E 0.20 538
Frontier Secure Wise County Call center for telecommunications provider N 0.00 500
Notarize Inc. Arlington County Online notarization company E 0.50 454
ADP Norfolk Back office operations E 0.00 400
Geico Corp. Virginia Beach IT and call center for car insurance company E 0.56 390
Applied Predictive Technologies Arlington County Business data analytics E 0.00 368
Eldor Corporation S.p.A1 Botetourt County Ignition coil and other automotive component manufacturing N 75.20 350
Grant Thornton LLP1 Arlington County Accounting and other professional services E 15.75 348
CACI International Inc.2 Fairfax County Systems integration and software development E 0.00 344
Collaborative Solutions LLC Fairfax County HQ; IT management consulting firm E 0.15 344

1 Indicates foreign affiliation        2 Indicates non Virginia Economic Development Partnership-assisted project   

N: new projects; E: expansion; HQ: headquarters

Note: Projected employment at time of announcement. Includes only publicly announced projects in 2016.

Source: Virginia Economic Development Partnership.

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