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Charlottesville nurtures biotech startups
Jun 2, 2025

Charlottesville nurtures biotech startups

Charlottesville's biotech startup ecosystem is growing, with help of U.Va.'s $350M Manning Institute of Biotechnology and CvilleBioHub.

The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has promoted Andrea Copeland to president and permanent CEO. Photo courtesy Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce
May 28, 2025

Charlottesville Chamber announces new president and CEO

The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that it has promoted Andrea Copeland, who has been the chamber's interim CEO for about a year, to president and permanent CEO, effective immediately.

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Oct 2, 2024

Afton Scientific announces $200M Albemarle expansion

Afton Scientific, a manufacturer of sterile injectable pharmaceuticals, plans to invest over $200 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Albemarle County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday. The expansion is projected to create more than 200 jobs. Founded by Thomas Thorpe in Charlottesville in 1991, Afton Scientific is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CMDO), [&h[...]

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Sep 29, 2024

Virginia 500 Spotlight: JANE KAMENSKY

THREE WORDS TO DESCRIBE ME: Thick-skinned, committed, self-mocking WHERE I SEE MYSELF 10 YEARS FROM NOW: On a screened porch drinking coffee and looking at the Blue Ridge ADVICE FOR NEW COLLEGE GRADUATES: Democracy is hard work and a peerless privilege. Earn it every day. DID YOU KNOW? Kamensky, who in January became president of […]

Aug 26, 2024

Virginia Housing board elects officers

Members of the Virginia Housing Development Authority’s Board of Commissioners elected Sarah Barrie Stedfast chair, the organization announced last week.  Stedfast is venture president at Norfolk’s RW Towne Mortgage, a subsidiary of TowneBank Mortgage, and is active in the Virginia and Tidewater mortgage bankers associations. She has a degree in business finance from Virginia Tech.  [...]

Old Trail Village in Crozet has 31 condo units. Photo courtesy Breeden Construction
Jan 19, 2024

Breeden Construction finishes $9.3M Crozet condos

Breeden Construction has completed a $9.3 million mixed-use condominium project in Crozet, the Richmond-based general contractor announced Tuesday. In December 2021, Breeden Construction started work on the Old Trail Village by clearing the 1-acre property in Albemarle County. The four-story, approximately 55,000-square-foot building has 31 condo units with balconies. The ground floor is 18,045 sq[...]

Virginia 500 spotlight: WILLIAM G. “BILL” CRUTCHFIELD JR.
Oct 30, 2023

Virginia 500 spotlight: WILLIAM G. “BILL” CRUTCHFIELD JR.

PERSONAL MOTTO: Believing that a glass is half-full MOST VALUED POSSESSION: My family HOW I UNWIND FROM WORK: I rarely do. That’s a problem. HOW I CHOSE MY CAREER PATH: I followed my passions — entrepreneurship and consumer electronics. HOBBY/PASSION: Flying airplanes, operating my boat, repairing my classic cars, installing complex electronics in my homes […]

Rendering of the Intelligence Community Innovation Acceleration Campus, part of Albemarle County's Rivanna Station Futures project. Rendering courtesy Albemarle County
Aug 30, 2023

Albemarle seeks to expand region’s defense sector

It’s no secret: Albemarle County is banking on the $58 million purchase of 462 acres around a military spy outpost to anchor the region’s defense community. On May 24, the county Board of Supervisors approved a contract to acquire the undeveloped and former farmland tract along along Route 29 adjacent to Rivanna Station — a […]

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Jul 27, 2023

$77.8M apartments break ground outside C-ville

Charlottesville-based GW Real Estate Partners, a vertically integrated multifamily construction and development firm, and Austin, Texas-based Virtus Real Estate Capital, have broken ground on a new, $77.8 million apartment community at the entrance to North Pointe, a 224-acre mixed-use community near Rivanna Station in Albemarle County. The Ridge at North Pointe is located across from […]

Breeden finishes projects in Albemarle, Chester, Petersburg
Jun 26, 2023

Breeden finishes projects in Albemarle, Chester, Petersburg

The Breeden Co. has completed construction on an 10-building apartment community in Albemarle County and has broken ground on a Virginia Beach apartment complex, and its subsidiary, Breeden Construction, has finished apartment communities in Chester and Petersburg. Completed in June, Berkmar Landing apartments in Albemarle has 261 units: 53 one-bedroom units, 172 two-bedroom apartments and [&helli[...]

Natalie S Masri. Photo courtesy Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce
May 30, 2023

Charlottesville regional chamber names prez and CEO

Natalie S. Masri will assume the role of president and CEO of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce on June 1, the chamber announced Tuesday. She succeeds Andrea Copeland, who has served as the chamber’s interim president since February and will become the chamber’s chief operating officer. Masri most recently founded Brave May LLC, a […]

May 4, 2023

Agtech startup to invest $25M in Albemarle expansion

Agricultural biotech startup AgroSpheres will invest $25 million to expand in Albemarle County, creating an estimated 50 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. The company will increase production at its facility at 1180 Seminole Trail and build a research and development and demonstration facility for new products, which will be a pilot plant for a […]

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