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Feb 16, 2024

Alexandria arena proposal economic impact report released

An economic and fiscal impact analysis released Friday by the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership forecasts that the proposed Washington Capitals and Wizards arena in Alexandria could generate up to $7.96 billion in annual economic output for the state. Additionally, the report says the arena could be completed as soon as 2028 if its construction schedule […]

Feb 12, 2024

Lucas: Alexandria arena deal is dead as far as she’s concerned

A bill that would establish a state authority for the proposed Alexandria basketball and hockey arena is not on the Virginia State Senate’s Finance and Appropriations Committee’s docket “because [Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s] proposal is not ready for prime time,” wrote Sen. Louise Lucas, the committee’s powerful chair. According to a video released by Senate Majority [...]

Feb 11, 2024

Why Alexandria’s new entertainment district is everyone’s business

As lawmakers negotiate the future of a $2 billion deal to build a new entertainment district in Alexandria, leaders across public and private sectors in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region are weighing the potential benefits. Without discounting concerns of local residents, I would like to present how this entertainment district will help Northern Virginia’s future growth and […]

Construction continues on Academic Building One of Virginia Tech's Innovation Campus. Photo by Franki Fitterer, courtesy Virginia Tech
Jan 16, 2024

Va. Tech Innovation Campus building opening delayed

The opening of the first academic building on Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus has been delayed to spring 2025, the university announced Thursday. Virginia Tech started construction on the first academic building of the $1 billion campus in Alexandria in September 2021 and had planned to open the $302 million building this August. The delay on […]

Dec 31, 2023

Wizards, Capitals plan Alexandria move in $2B deal

The Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards are planning a move to a new home in Alexandria in a $2 billion deal that would see the professional sports franchises exit Washington, D.C., by 2028, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Dec. 13, 2023. The nonbinding agreement to build a new arena for the Capitals and Wizards is […]

Dec 17, 2023

Visit Alexandria CEO announces retirement

Visit Alexandria President and CEO Patricia Washington will retire at the end of June 2024, the tourism organization announced Friday. Washington has led Visit Alexandria since 2012. She led two rebranding efforts and four brand campaigns and helped Alexandria become a national tourism destination, according to a news release announcing her retirement. The City of […]

Dec 13, 2023

Wizards, Capitals plan move to Alexandria in $2B deal

The Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards are planning a move across the Potomac River to a new home in Alexandria in a $2 billion deal that would see the professional sports franchises exit Washington, D.C., by 2028, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced early Wednesday. The nonbinding agreement to build a new arena for the Capitals […]

Oct 30, 2023

Scout Space founder has out-of-this-world goals

Eric Ingram wanted two things as a kid: blue hair and to travel to space. As CEO of Alexandria-based aerospace startup Scout Space, Ingram found the freedom to establish his now-trademark electric-blue hair. And it might provide the boost to reach that other goal. Ingram co-founded Scout Space in 2019 while he was furloughed from […]

Sep 22, 2023

Two NoVa companies receive $1.5B DOD tech contract

Two Northern Virginia-based federal contractors have received a five-year contract valued up to $1.5 billion to provide analytic and technical support services to the Department of Defense’s administrative and management organization. Falls Church-based Analytic Services, known as ANSER, and Alexandria-based Systems Planning & Analysis, known as SPA, will provide acquisition and sustain[...]

Sep 8, 2023

Alexandria’s SPA acquires aerospace co.

Alexandria-based Systems Planning & Analysis, a portfolio company of investment firm Arlington Capital Partners, has acquired Florida aerospace engineering company PRKK. Terms of the deal, which was announced Wednesday, were not disclosed. Founded in 2006 with primary work locations in Virginia and Colorado, PRKK has about 125 employees who will become part of SPA’s space […]

Aug 30, 2023

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: TIMOTHY J. McBRIDE

Named president of ST Engineering North America in October 2021, McBride brings 30-plus years of experience at multinational public companies and government agencies to the role. Singapore Technologies Engineering, or ST Engineering, is a $9 billion global technology and engineering group with businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defense and public security industries. Its U.S. […]

Aug 30, 2023

Economic Development 2023: STEPHANIE LANDRUM

Economic growth in Northern Virginia continues surging with the ongoing construction of the $1 billion Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Potomac Yard. In February, development reached a milestone when officials raised a steel beam to the 11th floor of the campus’s anchor building. The 300,000-square-foot structure is expected to open by the fall 2024 semester […]

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