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Recent Articles from Courtney Mabeus-Brown
NoVa data center development moves down I-95
Stafford County is experiencing rapid data center growth with three major projects underway and 18 in the pipeline, driven by developers like Vantage Data Centers.
Virginia universities help entrepreneurs get started
Virginia universities like George Mason and Virginia Tech offer accelerators, grants, and resources to support local entrepreneurs and startups statewide.
Northern Virginia focuses on strengths amid federal cuts
Northern Virginia's economy adapts to federal job cuts in 2025 by expanding defense tech, aerospace, AI, and data centers across Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William.
Defense contractor bucks retrenchment trend
While the effects of the Trump administration‘s cuts in the federal workforce and contracts reverberate throughout Northern Virginia and beyond, Alexandria-based Systems Planning & Analysis grabbed headlines in September 2025 when it announced it would spend $46.9 million and add 1,200 jobs across the city and in Fairfax County. SPA President Terry Benedict uses the […]
Fairfax’s commercial real estate market perks up
As vacancy remains elevated and older buildings struggle, companies like Iridium, Booz Allen and Workday are relocating to newer, amenity-rich offices in Tysons and Reston.
Despite federal coal support, Southwest Virginia aims to diversify
Southwest Virginia pursues nuclear, data centers, clean energy projects as coal declines and communities seek new economic paths.
Federal job cuts ripple through Northern Virginia
Trump’s federal job cuts are hitting Northern Virginia hard, with layoffs, stalled contracts, rising unemployment and a softening housing market.
ODU internship boost preps students for future
As a creative writing major at Old Dominion University, Kayla Boney says she knows jobs in her field after graduation may be “one in a million.” However, an internship with Teens with a Purpose, a Norfolk-based youth creative arts nonprofit, showed Boney, a 20-year-old rising junior, that her pursuits in the humanities, while challenging, can […]
Homegrown success: Hampton Roads Inc. 5000 firms
It may go without saying that a company called TheBestReputation might lean into the name it built for itself as it considers success. TheBestReputation CEO and co-founder Chris Hinman also credits his team’s hard work for helping land the Williamsburg-based digital marketing, public relations and online reputation management firm at No. 201 on the 2025 […]
ODU internships boost student success, employer ties
As a creative writing major at Old Dominion University, Kayla Boney says she knows jobs in her field after graduation may be “one in a million.” An internship with Teens with a Purpose, a Norfolk-based youth creative arts nonprofit, showed Boney, a 20-year-old rising junior, that her pursuits in the humanities, while challenging, can result […]
