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Little fish, big pond
Sometimes all it takes is seeing a child watch a crab crawl across a water table for the first time, Nate Sandel has learned. The director of education and community engagement at Nauticus, Norfolk’s science and maritime museum, Sandel saw the look of awe in a fourth-grade boy’s face as he watched crabs walk right […]
Central Virginia Year-in-Review: Pumping the brakes
During the pandemic, companies began pumping the brakes on expansions out of fear of the unknown. But, using that same car-related analogy, by late 2021, they were flooring it, explains Greater Richmond Partnership President and CEO Jennifer Wakefield. And by 2022, they had kicked it into sport mode. “Now it’s shifted back into normal mode,” […]
Central Va. Big Deal: Renaissance times
Henrico County’s near West End is seeing a renaissance. For decades, the area bordering Richmond around the Willow Lawn neighborhood has been home to mostly defunct commercial projects and old homes. But a $450 million project announced in December 2023 to renovate an old Elevance Health (formerly Anthem) campus promises to bring a “transformation” to […]
2024 BEST PLACES TO WORK — LARGE EMPLOYERS WINNER: Patriot Group
In the past five years, Patriot Group International has been recognized four times as the Best Place to Work among large employers in Virginia, but that doesn’t keep company leadership from wanting to do more and do better by its employees. Participation in Best Places to Work “provides us with great insight on some of […]
2024 BEST PLACES TO WORK — SMALL EMPLOYERS WINNER: Troika Solutions
“Partners, process, technology” is the tagline of Reston-based management and technology consulting firm Troika Solutions. In addition to valuing its partnerships with its military and government clients, this service– disabled veteran-owned small business has a keen focus on its partnership with its employees, says the company’s president and CEO, Kenneth Lasure. That’s [...]
2024 BEST PLACES TO WORK — MIDSIZE EMPLOYERS WINNER: Sriven Technologies
A lot of companies like to say they have a familylike atmosphere, but few seem as close as Ashburn-based Sriven Technologies, which has twice topped Virginia Business’ Best Places to Work small companies’ rankings, and this year leads the rankings of midsize employers for the first time. Sriven’s employees are so chummy with the company’s […]
Making the office cool again
It didn’t take long for Spurrier Group employees to want to be back in the office after the pandemic began. Within the first four weeks of workplace shutdowns in 2020, the women working at the Richmond-based strategy and media-buying firm started asking CEO Donna Spurrier when they could return to the company’s comfortably fashionable office, […]
Conventional wisdom
Business-related travel and events are slowly making a comeback in the post-pandemic era. In 2022, visitors to Virginia spent $30.3 billion in the commonwealth, exceeding 2019 spending by 4%. Of that spending, $4.8 billion was from business travelers, says Dan Roberts, vice president of research and strategy for Virginia Tourism Corp. While none of the […]
Gathering power
While working on a cellular tower a few years back, Kyle Mullins got what he describes as the “call of a lifetime” — an invitation to work on the first two pilot wind turbines for Dominion Energy‘s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. A Navy veteran who received a telecommunications technical certification from Texas A&M University, […]
