Just over a year after becoming CEO of VCU Health System and senior vice president for health sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Arthur Kellermann says the institution’s commitment to providing high-quality medical care while also addressing issues of health equity was a big part of what drew him to take the job.
“Most medical centers over time have moved more towards just highly paying patients,” he says. “The fact that we had a place here that was both highly innovative as an academic health center and deeply committed to the safety net mission … was irresistible.”
The Wonder Tower at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU is slated to open in spring 2023, offering inpatient, emergency, trauma and outpatient services for children. Rendering by HKS Inc.
VCU’s downtown Richmond medical campus, which dates to 1838, is in the midst of a building boom that will give some of its most notable treatment centers larger, more modern facilities that are better aligned with the way 21st-century health care is delivered.
While these projects are intended to smooth some of the rough edges of seeking health care in a tight urban setting — like the endless search for parking — these are not the only measures VCU Health and VCU’s health sciences schools are taking to reimagine the way they deliver health services and train future health care workers.
Through greater cooperation with other academic departments at the university and within the wider community, Kellermann wants to see VCU build a reputation as a medical system that works as hard to keep people from all backgrounds healthy as it does to treat them once they are admitted for care.
“Our focus going forward is to improve our efficiency and throughput in the facility, but at the same time, if we can do a better job of helping people stay healthy and out of the hospital, then that opens up capacity that we can use to care for more people,” he says.
Building boom
Opening in December at the corner of North 10th and East Leigh streets in downtown Richmond, VCU Health’s $384 million Adult Outpatient Pavilion combines 615,000 square feet of clinical space with more than 1,000 parking spaces in a garage that will allow patients to valet park and enter a building where they can access many different medical specialists.
The building houses outpatient services for VCU Massey Cancer Center, women’s services, infusions, an on-site laboratory, and pharmaceutical and medical imaging services, as well as other outpatient clinics.
Kellermann says the new outpatient building will help VCU Health adopt a model of care akin to what has made the Mayo Clinic such a destination for patients seeking advanced care — that of making a wide array of specialists available in one central location.
“Historically, academic medical centers have tended to be doctor-focused,” he says. “The model we are building is bringing the expertise to the patient.”
VCU Massey Cancer Center Director Dr. Robert Winn says the Adult Outpatient Pavilion will also drive new collaboration among doctors. “I really think we’ll be having more conversations about how to solve the big problem of reducing disparities for everyone,” he says.
The outpatient facility — which will increase the amount of outpatient care space on the downtown campus by seven times — is one of several VCU Health projects that will add a total of more than 1 million square feet of new clinical space in downtown Richmond.
Two blocks down 10th Street from the Adult Outpatient Pavilion, construction is underway on the 16-story Wonder Tower at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. This 72-bed, 500,000-square-foot facility, expected to open in spring 2023, completes an entire city block dedicated to serving children and their families, Kellermann says. It will increase the amount of pediatric care space within the health system’s downtown campus by 10 times.
The tower will bring inpatient, emergency, trauma and outpatient services for children under one roof, with a bridge connecting to the VCU Medical Center Gateway Building.
Kellermann expects the Wonder Tower to boost VCU’s profile as a destination for advanced care for children.
“I think it will be a magnet, not just for kids across Virginia, but for kids with complex and life-threatening problems across the country, and probably, in time, internationally, who will be coming to Richmond,” he says. “These are not short stays — this will help the local economy.”
Leaders at some of VCU’s other health sciences schools see the new facilities as valuable additions to the clinical education opportunities they can offer their students.
“Pediatric care, both inpatient and outpatient, is one of the hardest clinical areas to get direct experience with,” says Jean Giddens, dean of the VCU School of Nursing. “Our students are going to have much more robust pediatric experiences because that facility is right there for us. You can’t get those experiences in a lot of other nursing schools, because they don’t have access to that kind of clinical education so easily.”
VCU Health is also part of a $325 million mixed-used development on the former site of the Public Safety Building at 510 N. 10th St. Developer Capital City Partners purchased the building from the city of Richmond in July for $3.5 million. VCU Health System will have 150,000 square feet of office space in the development, which will also include a 35,000-square-foot child-care center to be operated by VCU Health. The project will also feature a 145-room extended-stay hotel operated by Richmond-based hospital hospitality house The Doorways for families of hospital patients, as well as a new 60-room Ronald McDonald House for families of children receiving care at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2022 and be complete in early 2025.
Jennifer Wakefield, president and CEO of the Greater Richmond Partnership, a regional economic development nonprofit organization, says VCU Health’s expansion is a boost to the Richmond area’s profile.
“When companies are looking to expand or relocate, they want to ensure that there are great universities and great health care for themselves and their team members,” she says. “Additional facilities being built at VCU will definitely add to the cachet of Richmond as companies look at this market.”
Reimagining the safety net
As it builds new facilities to care for the sick, VCU is also looking for new ways to help people stay well, Kellermann says. “We need to rewrite the social contract between academic health systems and their communities,” he says.
Increasingly, this means working with partners outside of the traditional halls of medicine. That approach has helped the school and health system in the race for sponsored research funding, which has grown by more than 8% at the university over the past year.
VCU Massey Cancer Center learned in September that it had won Virginia’s first-ever Special Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant from the National Cancer Institute. The $3.3 million grant will establish a research center at Massey that will partner with community groups both regionally and nationally to examine why lung cancer disproportionately affects Black Americans.
Winn says a big part of the work will be compiling data that can help researchers get a better picture of the cancer health of all areas of the commonwealth, down to the neighborhood level.
“If you were to look at the nine districts of Richmond, the ideal for us is to be able to provide enough cancer data so that each of the [City] Council [members] could know the cancer health of their district,” he says of his long-term hopes for what will be known as the Translational Research Center in Lung Cancer Disparities based
at VCU.
By collaborating with community groups such as hospitals and health centers, social workers and even churches and other organizations, researchers hope to gain a clearer picture of how environmental and societal disparities may be contributing to cancer rates.
Partnering with Massey on the project are the Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center and the City of Hope National Medical Center in California.
While both South Carolina and Virginia have histories tied to tobacco production that may explain some lung cancer prevalence, California has some rural populations with similar cancer rates, but without the ties to tobacco.
“This is where we can start teasing out the causes. Are there other environmental issues that are contributing to the cancer in California that we can learn something from?” Winn says. “Bringing on these partners expands our reach from just impacting Virginia to having potential national implications.”
Thinking beyond medicine
Kellermann says some of the public health challenges highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate how VCU’s health sciences schools can benefit from collaboration with other academic areas of the university.
As an example, he cites the Media+Health Lab at VCU’s Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture. Access to accurate health information “is probably one of the greatest public health threats our country and our world face. And no school of public health is really getting after that,” Kellerman says. “We are looking at transforming our public health program into a school where one of the major focuses would be communication and community empowerment.”
In September, VCU launched its Office of Health Equity, the product of a five-year process examining how the university could work more closely with the community to address disparities in health outcomes.
As part of that effort, VCU awarded $100,000 in grants in spring 2021 to seven groups led by faculty from across the university, from the School of Medicine to the Center for Environmental Studies, to work on an identified issue in the community.
“The caveat was that they had to partner with a community organization that was focused on that issue,” says Sheryl Garland, chief of health impact at VCU Health.
The grantees tackled problems as varied as affordable housing, food insecurity and oral health for refugee populations.
“Many of the health outcomes we are seeing are driven by social and economic factors,” Garland says. “We have a lot of faculty and programs that think about those things on a daily basis. … It was a no-brainer we needed different perspectives at the table beyond those of our clinical partners.”
VCU at a glance
Founded
VCU was founded in 1838 as the Medical College of Hampden-Sydney and was later renamed the Medical College of Virginia. In 1968, MCV merged with Richmond Professional Institute to form Virginia Commonwealth University.
Campus
VCU has two campuses in downtown Richmond covering a total of 168 acres. The Monroe Park Campus houses most undergraduate students and classes. VCU’s five health sciences schools and VCU Medical Center are located on the MCV campus.
Enrollment1
Undergraduate: 22,183
Graduate: 5,648
In-state: 25,510 (87%)
International: 1,256 (4.2%)
Students of color: 13,818 (47%)
Employees
One of the largest employers in the Richmond area, VCU employs nearly 23,400 workers, including 2,501 full-time faculty and 2,909 full-time university and academic professionals.
Tuition and fees2
In-state tuition and fees: $15,118
Tuition and fees (out of state): $36,456
Room and board and other fees: $11,615
Average financial aid awarded to full-time freshmen seeking assistance2: $18,887
Amazon.com Inc. has hired 3,500 of its 25,000 planned workers for HQ2, the tech behemoth’s $2.5 billion East Coast headquarters in Arlington. Meanwhile, construction on the two office towers for HQ2’s first phase, Metropolitan Park, is more than halfway complete, company representatives said during a site tour Wednesday.
Clark Construction Group LLC began work on the exterior facade in September.
In 2019, the Virginia General Assembly passed an incentive package that would pay Amazon up to $550 million in grants for hitting annual goals toward hiring 25,000 HQ2 workers at a stipulated average annual wage by 2030. The company has about 2,500 positions that it is working to fill immediately, Amazon’s vice president of public policy, Brian Huseman, said Wednesday.
Clark Construction Group LLC Vice President Jeff King said that construction is on schedule for a 2023 completion.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who was present for the HQ2 progress tour, said, “We knew coming into our administration that we needed to diversify our economy. We have always been very dependent on the military and government contracting — and we always will be — but to bring in a company like Amazon was a large step moving forward in diversifying our economy in Virginia.”
“Met Park” will have two 22-story office buildings, 50,000 square feet of retail space, a roughly 2-acre park space and a 700-person meeting center that community groups will be able to use for free. The site is set to be completed by 2023, and Bethesda, Maryland-based Clark Construction Group LLC is on schedule for the project, Clark Construction Vice President Jeff King said Thursday.
As of mid-November, roughly 800 local employees are working at the site, Huseman said, and a new floor is constructed every 8 to 10 days.
Last month, Clark Construction passed the halfway mark on its concrete operations, King said, adding that the company has poured 160,000 cubic yards of concrete since HQ2’s groundbreaking. Crews were working on the 15th level and were preparing to frame level 16 on Wednesday. In September, the contractor started on the exterior facade. King estimates that Met Park as a whole is about 40% finished.
Crews are excavating 10,000 cubic yards of dirt from the 2-acre park in HQ2 that will be open to the public.
The towers will include ground-floor retail space, with Amazon signing two retailers so far: Rako Coffee Roasters and pet care company District Dogs. Amazon anticipates having about seven to 12 retailers, including a child care provider, Amazon Senior Asset Manager Kristin Rincon said. The largest available space for retailers is about 12,000 square feet.
In the park space, crews are currently excavating about 10,000 cubic yards of dirt to make way for underground irrigation and foundation work. The park will include more than 300 trees and 50,000 plants, as well as dog runs, recreation areas, a playground and farmers’ markets.
Amazon HQ2’s proposed second phase, PenPlace, is expected to include three more 22-story buildings and the 370,000-square-foot, distinctively spiral-shaped “Helix” building. Arlington County supervisors will likely vote on whether to approve Amazon’s PenPlace plans in early 2022.
Kristi Smith, executive vice president of development for Bethesda, Maryland-based JBG Smith Properties, said that the developer’s housing portfolio in Amazon HQ2’s National Landing neighborhood now includes 2,586 existing apartments, 800 units under construction and a development pipeline with the potential for 2,500 units. JBG Smith is Amazon’s development partner on HQ2, managing the first phase of HQ2’s construction and leasing existing office space to Amazon for HQ2 workers during construction.
Fairfax-based real estate company The Peterson Cos. has formed a self-storage division, the company announced Monday.
It is the company’s first new division in more than 35 years and Jim Mertz will run it, the company said in a news release. Mertz joined Peterson Cos. in 2015 to lead the development effort for Promenade at Virginia Gateway and the region’s first Cabela’s store in Gainesville. In addition, he is responsible for the development of TopGolf and IFly at Commonwealth Center and opened Peterson’s first self-storage facility in Loudoun County.
Peterson Cos. opened its first 136,000-square-foot self-storage facility in Ashburn in 2018, followed by a 132,000-square-foot facility in Gainesville and a 110,000-square-foot facility in Stafford. All three are managed by CubeSmart.
“The self-storage industry is experiencing tremendous growth right now and demand for self-storage in the greater Washington, D.C. region is at an all-time high,”Jon Peterson, CEO of Peterson Cos., said in a statement. “With three operating facilities and several more in the pipeline, the time was right to create a dedicated division focused on growing our self-storage portfolio and Jim was the perfect choice to lead this effort.”
Last week, the company broke ground on a facility in Maryland expected to open in 2022.
With $56.2 million in financing in place, Marathon Development Group’s Frank “Buddy” Gadams is ready to start work on “Gravity 400 Apartments,” in downtown Norfolk, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC and Breeden Construction announced.
Located at 400 Waterside Drive, the 273-unit high-rise apartment tower will be have studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom floor plans, in a six-story apartment building, with a garage and common areas on the first floor and five floors of apartments above. Convenient to MacArthur Square Station, the Elizabeth River and Interstate 264, the development will also feature a fitness center, club room, courtyard with a swimming pool, grilling stations and firepits.
Amy Gay of Berkadia secured the construction financing through a HUD 221(d)(4) loan through the Green MIP Reduction program.
Breeden Construction will be the general contractor and construction is set to begin in late November and take 22 months to complete, according to a news release from Breeden. The cost of the project is $45.8 million.
Henrico County announced this week it is creating a redevelopment incentive program for parts of the county that are in need of renovation.
Henrico Investment Program was unanimously approved by the county board Tuesday, and the program is expected to launch in January. Incentives for development and reinvestment will be available for projects along parts of Mechanicsville Turnpike, Staples Mill Road, Patterson Avenue, West Broad Street and Williamsburg Road, according to a county news release. The board also amended the county’s commercial rehabilitation tax credit program to allow more buildings to qualify, including if they grow in size.
Under the state’s Enterprise Zone program, Henrico County and other localities offer grants and other incentives to support improvements and demolition of existing buildings on properties in designated areas, determined as needing further investment by the state. Henrico’s new program will allow the county to offer similar incentives outside of its 6-square-mile Enterprise Zone. Incentives include:
Allowing sign grants to include removal, refurbishment or replacement of signs attached to buildings
Increasing the demolition grant to a maximum of $100,000 based on a building’s size
Expanding the building facade grant to include building system improvements and roof improvements
Since 2004, the county has allowed a seven-year partial real estate tax exemption when renovated buildings’ assessed values increase by at least 40%, but not if they grow more than twice their original size. The amendment by the board this week allows nonresidential buildings greater than 20,000 square feet to qualify if the expanded portion is 125% or less of the building’s original size, and nonresidential buildings smaller than 20,000 square feet can qualify regardless of their original size.
“With the new Henrico Investment Program and amended commercial tax credit program for rehabilitated buildings, Henrico and the Board of Supervisors show once again their commitment to encouraging reinvestment in the county’s mature areas and to helping businesses, particularly small businesses, to grow and thrive,” Anthony J. Romanello, executive director of the Henrico Economic Development Authority, said in a statement.
Newport News-based construction company W.M. Jordan Co. will team up with a national firm, Suffolk, to build Norfolk’s $500 million HeadWaters Resort & Casino project on the Elizabeth River, according to a Friday announcement from the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, the casino’s operator.
Suffolk, which earns $4 billion in annual revenue and employs 2,500 people in locations across the United States, has built new casinos and made major expansions to others in Florida, Arkansas and the Boston Harbor, and was named the No. 1 hotel sector construction firm in 2020 by Building Design + Construction, a trade publication. Jordan, a familiar name in Hampton Roads, has completed more than 100 projects in the city of Norfolk, including the Hilton Norfolk The Main, Nauticus, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters and buildings at Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University and Eastern Virginia Medical School.
The Pamunkey tribe, which is partnering with Tennessee billionaire Jon Yarbrough on the casino, said in a statement Friday that Jordan and Suffolk were chosen for their use of local subcontractors and suppliers, and the Norfolk casino contract will require “high participation goals” for Black-owned businesses and Black workers in the construction process.
“This construction team will bring this project to life, one nail at a time. They are known for the quality of their work, and I have confidence they can deliver a magnificent project on schedule,” Pamunkey Chief Robert Gray said in a statement. “Just as important as their commitment to quality work, they are equally committed to providing opportunities for small and minority-owned subcontractors and suppliers to play a significant role in this project.”
The 300-room hotel, casino and entertainment venue is expected to produce at least 2,000 construction jobs. Groundbreaking is set for later this year or early 2022, the tribe has said, with the casino opening scheduled in 2023.
Virginia Tech is set to break ground Sept. 14 on the first building for its $1 billion Innovation Campus in Alexandria.
National Geographic Society Chairman Jean Case, wife of American Online co-founder Steve Case, will be the keynote speaker at the groundbreaking ceremony.
A graduate school for computer science and computer engineering students, the Innovation Campus is a major component in the state’s Tech Talent Investment Program, which aims to produce 31,000 in-demand computer science graduates during the next two decades.
Scheduled for an August 2024 opening, the campus’s $302 million Academic Building 1 was designed by SmithGroup and is being developed by Bethesda, Maryland-based JBG Smith Properties. (The state is funding $168 million of the building’s construction, with the remainder coming from Virginia Tech and private donors.)
“It’s a place in which the future of technology will be invented,” Lance Collins, vice president and executive director of the Innovation Campus, says of the 11-story, 300,000-square-foot building.
Here’s a sneak peek at what the building will include:
Classrooms with moveable furniture and partitions that retract into the ceilings
The Sanghani Center (formerly the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics), supported by a $10 million gift from Reston-based Octo Consulting Group CEO Mehul Sanghani and his wife, Hema, both Hokies
“Brain gyms” — rooms with analog games, music and other computer-free activities
The Loft — a two-story space with a glass wall facing Potomac Avenue, testing spaces, a pitch room, a machine shop and electronics assembly space
A visualization room with a projection floor and walls
A 200-seat projection room with retracting lobby-side partitions
“It’s a porous place. We want people coming and going,” Collins says.
The building’s exterior will be decorated with distinctive gold solar panels, a functional design element that will generate 5% to 10% of the facility’s power. “The building is a model of high performance, a model of sustainability,” says David Johnson, a SmithGroup higher education design strategist working on the project.
The Innovation Campus’s headquarters is temporarily housed at the nearby National Industries for the Blind. Innovation Campus students are attending classes at Tech’s Falls Church campus.
Virginia Tech hopes the Innovation Campus will benefit the technology eco-system beyond the region.
“We see it as, frankly, a national issue,” Collins says. “The nation is in a technology race. We don’t always recognize that, but the other countries have been gaining on us in some sense.”
REGIONAL PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA AND RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC., NORFOLK
Asked to name one thing he’d change about Virginia, Adams says he’d like to see more collaboration between the commonwealth and North Carolina.
Chances are that has at least a little to do with the fact that in fall 2020, Adams began overseeing an effort to rebuild the Raleigh, North Carolina, market for Colliers while continuing to shepherd the company’s Central and Eastern Virginia teams, which employ more than 450 people. The work is going well, Adams says: “Raleigh is ahead of plan and accelerating with new employees, clients and substantial transactions.”
Adams began working in the industry nearly 30 years ago as an assistant project manager for CBRE, Colliers’ former parent company.
EDUCATION:B.A. and MBA, University of Virginia
FAVORITE SONG: Jackson Browne’s “Doctor, My Eyes”
SOMETHING I WOULD NEVER DO AGAIN: Max out my credit card.
Apperson
ERIC E. APPERSON
PRESIDENT OF CONSTRUCTION, ARMADA HOFFLER PROPERTIES INC., VIRGINIA BEACH
A few years after graduating from Hampden-Sydney College in 1985, Apperson went to work for Armada Hoffler, which builds, acquires and manages office, retail and multifamily properties located primarily in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States.
He has been president of Armada Hoffler Construction since 2000, overseeing its management, growth and financial health.
In May, the first tenants moved into 27 Atlantic Apartments, a $100 million, 17-story apartment tower on the Virginia Beach oceanfront built by Armada Hoffler Construction, which had its most profitable year ever in 2020.
Armada Hoffler may be best known for constructing most of the buildings in Baltimore’s Harbor Point area. In December, the company announced plans for a joint venture with Baltimore-based Beatty Development Group to develop and build a global headquarters there for T. Rowe Price.
WHAT MAKES ME PASSIONATE ABOUT MY WORK: Our people, our employees.
WHAT I’VE LEARNED:The importance of honesty and integrity.
Ballard
STEPHEN B. BALLARD
PRESIDENT AND CEO, S.B. BALLARD CONSTRUCTION CO., VIRGINIABEACH
A Norfolk native, Ballard launched his construction company in the late 1970s by completing projects for the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority and doing minor renovations for his neighbors. Initially, he centered the company on concrete contracting but later expanded into general contracting.
In the Hampton Roads area, S.B. Ballard Construction built Kellam High School and the Lyman B. Brooks Library at Norfolk State University and upgraded the football stadium at Old Dominion University, named S.B. Ballard Stadium in honor of his contributions to the school.
In February, Rush Street Gaming, developer and operator of the upcoming $300 million Rivers Casino Portsmouth, announced it had chosen a joint venture between Ballard Construction and Mississippi-based Yates Construction as the project’s general contractor.
Ballard also serves as one of seven members of the city of Virginia Beach’s Wetlands Board. Selected by the City Council, the members review permit requests for the use, alteration or development of tidal wetlands, sand dunes and beaches.
Bechtel
BRENDAN BECHTEL
CHAIRMAN AND CEO, BECHTEL GROUP INC., RESTON
Bechtel, the fifth generation of his family to lead the prominent global engineering, construction and project management company, was appointed CEO in 2016 and chairman a year later, at age 36.
He started working for the family company during summer breaks in high school and later earned a bachelor’s degree in geography from Middlebury College in Vermont and two master’s degrees from Stanford University.
Over the years, Bechtel took on roles of increasing responsibility in field construction and project management, as well as overseeing several large projects, including the Dulles Corridor Metrorail extension. The pandemic drove down the company’s income last year to $17.6 billion, a 19% decrease from 2019.
“Despite the challenges of 2020, the toughest in our company’s history, we stood with our customers to drive progress and achieved one of the best safety records ever,” Bechtel said in a March 2021 statement about the company’s 2020 earnings.
Bortell
BRIAN BORTELL
PRESIDENT, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, TIMMONS GROUP INC., RICHMOND
Bortell launched his career as an entry-level engineer at Timmons Group more than three decades ago. By 2004, he’d settled into his current executive role at the Richmond-based civil engineering, technology and surveying firm.
Timmons Group, which employs more than 400 people, has worked on several prominent projects in the Hampton Roads region, including the Tech Center and the Discovery STEM Academy, both in Newport News. It also is handling civil engineering work for Bon Secours’ forthcoming $30 million emergency center in Chesterfield County; construction started in May. In April, the company announced the addition of new offices in Newport News and Wilmington, North Carolina, and the company’s focus on wind energy projects is increasing, with a goal to have 100 employees in that sector by 2023.
The Virginia Tech alum, who holds an MBA from Averett University, is fond of competing in marathons and triathlons and has finished the Hawaiian Ironman race multiple times. He’s a member of Sports Backers’ board and is a graduate of Leadership Metro Richmond.
GARY BOWMAN
PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, PRESIDENT AND CEO, BOWMAN CONSULTING GROUP LTD., RESTON
Trained as a civil engineer at Virginia Tech, Bowman founded his Reston-based engineering services firm in 1995, and today it employs 750-plus people in more than 30 offices across the United States. Before starting his company, Bowman was a principal for 15 years at Urban Engineering.
This has been a big year for Bowman Consulting, which went public in May, raising $51.73 million by selling 3.69 million shares at $14 a share. In January, the company announced it had acquired Herndon-based engineering firm KTA Group Inc., which provides engineering, mechanical, electrical and plumbing services. Bowman Consulting has a wide array of projects on its plate, including working on data centers and Dominion Energy Inc.’s substation security system, designing more than 20 Walgreens stores and developing the Dulles International Park in Sterling. In the first quarter of 2021, the company generated just under $32 million in gross revenue.
“Adding KTA’s comprehensive skill sets and experience greatly enhances our ability to serve as a one-stop provider of design services to our clients,” Bowman said.
Bowman serves on the advisory board of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering.
Breeden
C. TORREY BREEDEN
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, THE BREEDEN CO. INC., VIRGINIA BEACH
Breeden, whose name is well-known across the Hampton Roads region and beyond, focuses on land acquisition and development of new communities across the Southeast U.S. for the multifamily, single-family and commercial construction company founded 60 years ago by his father, Ramon W. Breeden Jr.
The Breeden Co., which has 400 employees and reported about $355 million in 2020 revenue, has a portfolio encompassing more than 15,000 apartments and 2 million square feet of retail and office space. Torrey Breeden started at the company in 1997 after earning his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia. He enjoys traveling and pilots the company’s corporate jets and several helicopters.
Over the summer, the company broke ground on a $2.4 million expansion to its headquarters on Lynnhaven Parkway.
FIRST JOB: I was a Cutco knife salesperson. I did not sell door to door, but it was close.
WHAT I WAS LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL: I was athletic. I played football and baseball.
HOBBY/PASSION: Ballroom dancing. It is beautiful to watch; it is beautiful to participate.
Clark
BOB CLARK
Professional Engineer, President, BASKERVILL, RICHMOND
After working more than 25 years at Richmond-based engineering, architecture and interior design firm Baskervill, Clark still enjoys what he does. “We’re designing spaces where great work and great discovery is happening,” he says. “It’s powerful.”
The Virginia Military Institute alumnus came to Baskervill as a mechanical engineer in 1995 after five years serving as an engineering officer for the U.S. Air Force. He became company president in 2004.
Early in the pandemic, Baskervill laid off 25 employees and later furloughed others, but now the firm is back up to 100 employees across the United States and Poland.
WHAT A COMPETITOR WOULD SAY ABOUT MY FIRM: I hope they’d say the same about us as we would about them: that we celebrate great design, no matter its origin.
HOBBY/PASSION: I really enjoy snowboarding with my kids. In the early years, I would slow down so they could keep up, but now that they’re in their late teens, the dynamics have changed. The tables have turned!
Clarke
GEORGE B. CLARKE IV
PRESIDENT, MEB, CHESAPEAKE
While earning his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech, Clarke worked for his father’s construction company, Kenbridge Construction Co. Shortly after graduation, Clarke launched MEB in 1982.
Today, he leads about 230 employees, with all but a handful working in Virginia. The company, which earned $216 million in 2020 revenue, shortened its name from MEB General Contractors to MEB last year after an 18-month rebranding process, and it also has refreshed and expanded its headquarters in Chesapeake.
MEB is the construction manager for a $112 million project designed to protect the historic Norfolk Grandy Village and Chesterfield Heights neighborhoods from flooding. The project involves building concrete retaining walls, raised roadways and two pump stations for stormwater removal, as well as making stormwater and utility improvements.
PERSON I ADMIRE:John R. Lawson II, executive chairman of W.M. Jordan Co. — a great friend and a great businessman.
FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM:Any Virginia Tech team.
Detwiler
JEFFREY S. ‘JEFF’ DETWILER
PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE LONG & FOSTER COS., CHANTILLY
After graduating from Princeton University with a degree in psychology in 1983, Detwiler worked for a variety of finance institutions, including Bank of America, Countrywide Home Loans and Credit Suisse First Boston. In 2009, he joined Long & Foster, Virginia’s largest residential real estate company, as its president and chief operating officer.
In 2017, after the family-owned company was sold to HomeServices of America Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, Detwiler became its CEO.
“It’s like so many other things, you kind of fall into it. It just sort of unfolds in front of you,” Detwiler said of his career on an episode of the “Go With John Show” podcast, hosted by John Jorgensen, an agent in Long & Foster’s McLean office.
Detwiler leads 1,800 employees and 11,000 real estate agents in seven states and Washington, D.C. The company posts nearly $30 billion in annual sales. In January, Detwiler was ranked No. 35 on the Swanepoel Power 200 list, which ranks top executives in the residential real estate industry. Detwiler also serves on the boards for Upstream, a data management platform for the real estate industry, and the Greater Washington Board of Trade.
Divaris
GERALD S. DIVARIS
CHAIRMAN AND CEO, DIVARIS GROUP, VIRGINIA BEACH
With prominent national real estate sales and management companies under the Divaris Group umbrella, Gerald Divaris and his cousin Michael Divaris have one of Hampton Roads’ most familiar last names. They arrived in Virginia Beach in 1981, relocating the company they founded seven years earlier in Cape Town, South Africa, their home country.
The two men still lead the corporation, which now has offices across the state as well as in North Carolina, South Carolina and California. Divaris Real Estate Inc. manages, sells and leases about 31 million square feet of office, retail and industrial space on the East Coast and employs about 175 people. Among the company’s high-profile tenants are Kohl’s, Best Buy, Banana Republic and P.F. Chang’s, and Divaris Group is perhaps best known for developing and managing Virginia Beach’s Town Center, a bustling mixed-use project with offices, retail, hotels and restaurants.
Gerald Divaris also sits on the board of Realty Resources, a national network of retail brokers that he co-founded, and is a founding member of the Central Business District Association, which supports the growth of Virginia Beach’s business community. He is a Virginia Beach regional board member of TowneBank and serves on the board of the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Foundation.
Faust
DANIEL FAUST
CHIEF EXECUTIVE – AMERICAS EAST, AECOM, ARLINGTON
Since 2016, Faust has led international infrastructure design firm AECOM’s design and consulting services business for the Eastern U.S. and Latin America, overseeing about 8,000 employees.
The top Virginia-based executive at the Los Angeles-based Fortune 500 company, Faust joined AECOM in 2005 after serving as the Delaware River Port Authority’s chief engineer. His duties have included supervising highway and bridge projects and leading AECOM’s surface transportation market sector.
A graduate of the University of Delaware and Drexel University, Faust says, “It’s important to be flexible and open to new opportunities. AECOM is unique in its breadth and depth of services, which allows our people to reinvent themselves and try new things.”
WHAT MAKES ME PASSIONATE ABOUT MY WORK:Our people — AECOM has the best expertise in the business. Our professionals are passionate about partnering with our clients and advancing the communities where we live and work.
Fiorillo
TONY FIORILLO
PRESIDENT AND CEO, ECS GROUP OF COS., CHANTILLY
Fiorillo started at ECS, a Chantilly-based, employee-owned engineering firm, as a field technician in 1993, becoming president in 2020. In January, he was named CEO, managing approximately 2,000 employees.
ECS focuses on geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities engineering, and it has more than 70 offices across the country. In its engineering portfolio are projects at Fairfax’s Metro Park, Inova Fairfax Hospital and the AP Moller-Maersk Shipping Terminal in Portsmouth.
Taking the helm of the company, Fiorillo stepped into the shoes of Henry Lucas, who co-founded ECS in 1988 and plans to stay on as board chairman through 2022. An alumnus of Auburn University, George Mason University’s business school and the University of Florida, Fiorillo prefers to cede the spotlight to others, noting in a 2020 interview that Lucas was a “tremendous mentor” and that succeeding him was “humbling and daunting at the same time.”
Fiorillo also is a board member for U.S. Hunger, a nonprofit formerly known as Feeding Children Everywhere, which has activated more than 830,000 volunteers to package and distribute 140 million meals for children in need.
Francis
JULIAN G. FRANCIS
PRESIDENT AND CEO, BEACON ROOFING SUPPLY INC., HERNDON
A United Kingdom native, Francis in 2019 took the reins at Herndon-based residential and commercial roofing materials distributor Beacon Roofing Supply, where he oversees more than 7,500 employees at 500-plus branches. The company was ranked No. 420 on the 2021 Fortune 500 list, reporting $6.94 billion in sales last year.
The largest publicly traded roofing materials company, Beacon saw strong sales in the first quarter of this year, posting revenues of more than $1.3 billion in March, although it saw an $80 million drop in profits in fiscal year 2020 compared with 2019. The company was started in 1928 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, with 32 regional employees.
Previously, Francis was president of Owens Corning’s insulation business, the Ohio company’s largest business segment. He also served as vice president and publishing director at Reed Business Information, now part of the LexisNexis portfolio.
Francis earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a doctorate in materials engineering at Swansea University in Wales, as well as an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago.
Franklin
W. TAYLOR FRANKLIN
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, FRANKLIN JOHNSTON GROUP MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT LLC, VIRGINIA BEACH
In 2013, Franklin and his father, Wendell Franklin, along with Steve Cooper and Tom Johnston, left Norfolk-based real estate firm S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. to launch a new multifamily management and development company.
After starting with a portfolio of 3,551 residential units throughout Virginia and North Carolina, today’s Franklin Johnston Group has more than 500 employees who develop and manage over 115 properties and 19,000 units in seven states.
Taylor Franklin’s responsibilities at the company include overseeing company operations, new business and partner acquisitions, and new development opportunities.
Last year, the Franklin Johnston Group opened Coastal 61 at Oxford Village, a 248-unit complex near Virginia Wesleyan University, where Franklin earned his bachelor’s degree in 2004. “I remember going to college, driving past this site and thinking how underutilized it was,” Franklin said in 2019 at the groundbreaking.
In addition to his day job, Franklin sits on the board of directors for the Neptune Festival, is chairman and president of the Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation board and is past chair of Norfolk Collegiate School’s board.
Gadams
FRANK ‘BUDDY’ GADAMS
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, MARATHON DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC., NORFOLK
Gadams is well known for changing the landscape of Norfolk over the past decades, with multiple apartment developments shaping downtown. Lesser known is the impact he is making in developing new medical therapies.
As a major donor to the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Gadams also is a significant investor in the hospital’s ReAlta Life Sciences. ReAlta, which is developing anti-inflammatory treatments, recently closed on a $20 million financing package and secured a $3.2 million grant from The Virginia Catalyst fund. Gadams led the startup’s financing initiative.
Gadams’ Marathon Development was also in the news recently when two of his Norfolk luxury apartment complexes sold for $38.9 million to Waverton Associates of Portsmouth.
A James Madison University graduate, Gadams invested an inheritance from his grandmother in his first apartment building in Norfolk in 1998. He flipped the building, earning five times his investment.
Gadams has ridden booms and busts in real estate, including battling several lawsuits sparked by the 2008 Great Recession. But the developer bounced back, turning downtown Norfolk’s Bank of America building into a massive residential development called Icon Norfolk in 2017.
Gannon
MATTHEW GANNON
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND MARKET LEADER, D.C. REGION, COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL LLC, WASHINGTON, D.C.
As managing director and market leader for Colliers’ Washington, D.C., region, Gannon is responsible for more than 50 real estate professionals who cover one of the busiest areas in the company.
An international real estate and investment management corporation, Colliers has a presence in 67 countries. In 2020, the company brought in $3.3 billion in corporate revenue and managed $40 billion in assets. For the quarter that ended March 31, 2021, Colliers reported revenues of $774.9 million.
Before joining Colliers in 2019, Gannon worked as vice president of leasing for Paramount Group Inc., a New York City-based company that owns and manages Class A office properties, overseeing its D.C.-area office portfolio. Before that, he served as Vornado Realty Trust’s vice president of leasing.
A graduate of Fordham University, Gannon serves on the board of directors of the Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Association of Greater Washington, D.C.
Graul
DONALD D. GRAUL
CEO, THE BRANCH GROUP INC., ROANOKE
With more than 38 years of industry experience, Graul was hired to lead Roanoke-based construction company The Branch Group last December. He joined Branch from Centreville-based Parsons Corp., where Graul was executive vice president of construction and a senior executive for alternative project delivery. He also previously worked for AECOM.
The Branch Group, which posted $500 million in 2020 revenue, has more than 850 employees and is fully employee-owned.
A University of Nebraska civil engineering alumnus, Graul completed the senior executive program at London Business School. He has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction and is an active member of several professional associations. He sits on the board of directors of The Beavers, a national heavy engineering construction association.
PERSON I ADMIRE: Phil Jackson. He built championship teams out of dysfunctional teams.
BEVERAGE OF CHOICE:Iced tea (unsweetened — frowned upon by my staff)
Haddad
LOUIS S. ‘LOU’ HADDAD
PRESIDENT AND CEO, ARMADA HOFFLER PROPERTIES INC., VIRGINIA BEACH
Haddad came to Armada Hoffler Construction Co. in 1985 as an on-site construction superintendent, and two years later, a few months shy of age 30, he was promoted to president of that company. Haddad eventually became president of all the commercial real estate company’s entities, and in 1999, he rose to CEO.
Today, the company employs approximately 150 people, including 120 in Virginia. During a February earnings call, Haddad said that members of Armada Hoffler’s board and the company’s executives took voluntary pay reductions during the pandemic, but that all other members of their team received yearly pay increases on time in fall 2020, as well as year-end bonuses. “Their performance throughout this difficult year has been nothing short of remarkable,” he said, “and that performance must be rewarded.”
Haddad and his wife, Mary, co-founded a foundation in 1999 that develops and supports educational projects designed to assist at-risk students and provides scholarships for students who want to go on to earn certifications or attend college. In 2019, he was appointed to the University of Virginia board of visitors.
WHAT MAKES ME PASSIONATE ABOUT MY WORK: The ability to change skylines, foster careers and add to the greater good
MOST RECENT BOOK READ: “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir
FAVORITE BEVERAGE: Iced tea
Hitt
BRETT HITT
CO-CHAIRMAN, HITT CONTRACTING INC., FALLS CHURCH
After earning a bachelor’s degree in building construction from Georgia Tech in 1984, Hitt joined his family-owned company, starting as a project manager. He was named co-president in 2005, and 12 years later became co-chairman of the board.
Started by Hitt’s grandfather and grandmother, Warren and Myrtle Hitt, as a residential painting and decorating business in 1937, Hitt Contracting is one of Virginia’s largest general contractors, frequently taking on industrial projects such as warehouses and data centers. The company brought in $2.6 billion in revenue last year and has 1,200 employees across 12 locations, with 800 working in Virginia.
Last September, Hitt’s father, chairman emeritus Russell A. Hitt, died. “My dad’s focus has always been an incredible work ethic and taking care of the people around you,” Brett Hitt said. “These principles are the core ideology of Hitt today.”
HOBBY/PASSION: I love reading and learning new things.
NEW LIFE EXPERIENCE: The birth of his first grandchild: “Makes you realize that life is precious and so much bigger than just ourselves.”
MOST RECENT BOOK READ: “The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS,” by Martin Lindstrom
Hourigan
MARK HOURIGAN
FOUNDER AND CEO, HOURIGAN GROUP, RICHMOND
In 1993, Hourigan founded his Richmond-based construction and development firm, which operates throughout the mid-Atlantic and has offices in Richmond, Charlottesville and Virginia Beach.
Hourigan, in partnership with Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment company DSC Partners, broke ground in May on a 560,000-square-foot spec building at Deepwater Industrial Park near the Richmond Marine Terminal.
Additionally, Hourigan is working on Charlottesville’s Apex Plaza, an eight-story office building with sustainable design features that’s billed as Virginia’s tallest building made of timber.
The company also co-designed and built Dominion Energy Inc.’s distinctive, reflective corporate headquarters in downtown Richmond, while also overseeing the implosion of the utility’s former HQ building.
In June, Hourigan was selected as the Engineering News-Record mid-Atlantic Contractor of the Year. It saw a 40% increase in revenue in 2020, up from $335.37 million in 2019.
A University of Richmond business school alum, Hourigan sits on advisory boards for Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the Myers-Lawson School of Construction. He also serves on the board of the Community Foundation for a greater Richmond and as the chair of the executive committee of ChamberRVA.
JON JENNINGS
PRESIDENT, L.F. JENNINGS INC., FALLS CHURCH
Led by Jennings since 2000, family-owned general contracting firm L.F. Jennings Inc. delivers everything from commercial to multifamily to parking garage projects.
Founded in 1952 by Lawrence Floyd Jennings, Jon Jennings’ grandfather, the company began as a masonry contracting business. Jon Jennings’ father, Larry T. Jennings, joined the enterprise in 1965. By the 1980s, the firm began building larger-scale properties for commercial developers.
Today, the company employs more than 350 people, with projects across the state, as well as in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Among its highlights are the new Fredericksburg Nationals baseball stadium, the 2020 renovation of the 110-year-old Stumpf Hotel in Richmond and Loudoun United’s Segra Field.
ROBB ‘R.J.’ JOHNSON
EXECUTIVE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF BROKERAGE, MID-ATLANTIC REGION, JLL, TYSONS
Johnson develops and executes real estate planning and major facility acquisition projects for clients of international commercial real estate company JLL, where he’s worked since 2008.
With more than 30 years of experience in real estate, Johnson specializes in strategic planning, real estate finance and development, transaction structures and portfolio analytics.
After graduating from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in public policy, Johnson began his career as an associate for McLean real estate company Casey Miller Borris and Burns.
In 2019, he won the Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Association of Greater Washington, D.C.’s James L. Eichberg Broker of the Year award.
WHAT I WAS LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL: I focused my attention on parties and hot rod cars.
WHAT A COMPETITOR WOULD SAY ABOUT ME: Competent, driven, fair and, perhaps, overly detailed.
WHAT MAKES ME PASSIONATE ABOUT MY WORK: Collaborating with great people, creating client delight and the satisfaction from winning in business.
SOMETHING I WOULD NEVER DO AGAIN:Eat Beyond Meat.
Johnson
STEVE JOHNSON
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, JOHNSON COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, BRISTOL
Johnson founded Bristol-based Johnson Commercial Development in 1995. It may be best known for developing The Pinnacle, a $150 million, 240-acre shopping center that opened in 2014 directly off Interstate 81 in Bristol, Tennessee.
In early 2020, Johnson, along with Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, announced plans for a $500 million casino, lodging and entertainment complex at The Pinnacle. At the time, the General Assembly was already considering legislation to allow voters to decide whether to legalize casino gambling in five Virginia cities, including Bristol. But Bristol, Virginia, city officials instead backed the competing $400 million Bristol Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which was approved by voters in November.
A former star tight end for the Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Johnson went on to play for the New England Patriots and the Dallas Cowboys, and he pledged $1 million in 2013 to build the Steve Johnson Practice Fields at Virginia Tech. Currently he is aiming to produce more housing in the Bristol region, Johnson said in March.
Kettler
ROBERT C. ‘BOB’ KETTLER
FOUNDER AND CEO, KETTLER INC., McLEAN
A third-generation builder, Kettler founded a small construction business in 1977, growing it into a multimillion-dollar real estate company.
The company that bears his name has developed more than 25,000 multifamily residential units, 5 million square feet of commercial space, more than 71,000 homes and many mixed-use communities. Additionally, Kettler employees manage approximately 20,000 apartments in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
The Kettler name is familiar among Washington Capitals fans as well, with the Arlington practice arena for the NHL team known for 12 years as the Kettler Capitals Iceplex. In 2018, Kettler dropped the naming rights for that facility in favor of the second floor at the Capital One Arena.
Last fall, Kettler broke ground on the Brentford at The Mile luxury apartments in Tysons. The construction of these 411 apartments is the second phase of development at The Mile, a 45-acre mixed-use project being developed by Kettler and PS Business Parks Inc.
Bob Kettler has served on the boards of the Trust for the National Mall, The Kennedy Center, George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College and several other organizations.
King
ROBERT M. ‘BOB’ KING
PRESIDENT, RETAIL SALES AND LEASING, HARVEY LINDSAY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, NORFOLK
In 2019, after more than 40 years with the company, King took the helm of Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate, which provides brokerage services and asset and property management in Hampton Roads. He stepped into the shoes of his brother, William E. King, who left to pursue private investment opportunities.
The King brothers are the adopted sons of Harvey L. Lindsay Jr., who married their mother after their father, a Navy pilot, was killed in an aircraft accident. Bob King, a graduate of Duke University and Old Dominion University, has led the firm’s retail leasing team since 1985. He also serves on the board of the ODU Educational Foundation, the university’s primary academic fundraising organization.
Harvey Lindsay Sr. founded the company in 1919, when its primary focus was on residential sales. Harvey Lindsay Jr., who remains active as chairman at age 92, steered the company toward expansion in sales, leasing, development and management of commercial properties.
Lafayette
LAURA DILLARD LAFAYETTE
CEO, RICHMOND ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, RICHMOND
Lafayette serves almost 7,000 members of the Richmond Association of Realtors and the Central Virginia Regional Multiple Listing Service. She’s also the executive director of the Partnership for Housing Affordability, a nonprofit that champions affordable housing policies and developments.
As a gubernatorial appointee to the Virginia Housing Commission, Lafayette studies issues related to the availability of safe and affordable housing for Virginians.
Additionally, Lafayette is the immediate past chair of the boards of HousingForward Virginia, which works to ensure affordable housing in Virginia, and the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust, which seeks to develop and steward permanently affordable housing opportunities to foster racially equitable communities. In addition to volunteering her time to other nonprofits, Lafayette serves on the vestry of Christ Church Episcopal in Glen Allen.
After receiving her bachelor’s degree in religion from William & Mary, Lafayette pursued postgraduate work at Yale Divinity School and the University of Virginia. Earlier in her career, Lafayette worked as press secretary and speechwriter for Gov. L. Douglas Wilder.
Hardee
CARL HARDEE
PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE LAWSON COS., VIRGINIA BEACH
With more than three decades of experience at The Lawson Cos., Hardee has overseen the company’s operational and financial stability, as well as its organizational growth, since 2016, when he succeeded Lawson Cos. Chairman of the Board Steve Lawson as president and CEO.
Founded in 1972, Lawson manages and owns nearly 6,000 apartments, with about 1,200 units in development. The company’s Seaside Harbor Apartments in Virginia Beach were featured in a recent U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development case study, which highlights projects that use innovation in affordable housing. Completed in 2018, the project created 76 quality affordable housing units for people with developmental disabilities, families with accessibility needs and the workforce at the Oceanfront.
Hardee earned his bachelor’s degree from Virginia Military Institute in 1987 and is a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Gulf War. He serves on TowneBank’s Portsmouth/Suffolk board of directors and the local advisory committee of the Hampton Roads office of Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Lawson
JOHN R. LAWSON II
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, W.M. JORDAN CO., NEWPORT NEWS
Lawson came to the Newport News-based construction company in 1975 as a field engineer. Over the years, he went on to work as an estimator, project engineer, superintendent and project manager before being named in 1986 as W.M. Jordan Co.’s president and CEO.
Lawson, who transitioned to executive chairman in 2018, funnels his energy into advancing innovation and fostering the company’s unique corporate culture.
W.M. “Bill” Jordan and Bob Lawson, John Lawson’s father, launched the company in 1958, and today it has about 300 employees and earned more than $649 million in 2020 revenue.
In 2017, Virginia Tech awarded Lawson, who graduated Tech with a bachelor’s degree in geophysics, the William H. Ruffner Medal, the university’s highest honor. Lawson lent his name to Virginia Tech’s Myers-Lawson School of Construction and served on the university’s board of visitors from 2002 to 2010.
BEST ADVICE FOR OTHERS: There are great opportunities everywhere. Keep your eyes open and antennas up. But the most important factor is execution.
WHAT I WAS LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL:Not a great student, but I was curious and liked to be organized … and I dressed well!
Leon
MILES LEON
PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, S.L. NUSBAUM REALTY CO., NORFOLK
Leon joined the Norfolk-based real estate company in the early 1990s after First Commercial Real Estate Services, an office and warehouse brokerage firm Leon co-founded, was folded into S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co.
As president, Leon oversees company operations and business development at the 115-year-old company, which manages, develops and provides sales and leasing services for shopping centers, apartment communities and office, industrial and investment properties throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. The company has more than 1,000 employees, about 820 of whom are in Virginia.
Leon serves on numerous boards, including the Downtown Norfolk Council, The King’s Daughters Health System Children’s Health System and the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater. He’s also a trustee for Old Dominion University Real Estate Foundation.
PERSON I ADMIRE:My father, Arnold Leon, who didn’t start out with much, but his hard work as an attorney and businessman inspired me.
FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM:University of Georgia Bulldogs
WHAT I’VE LEARNED:I’m definitely not the smartest guy in the room and enjoy learning from others every day.
Litton
T. RICHARD LITTON JR.
PRESIDENT, HARBOR GROUP INTERNATIONAL, NORFOLK
In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations at the Norfolk-based real estate investment and management firm Harbor Group International, which has more than 1,200 employees worldwide, Litton chairs the HGI Investment Committee, manages HGI’s transactions group and is involved in institutional capital-raising efforts.
With $13.5 billion in real estate investment properties, HGI invests in and manages diversified property portfolios, including office, retail and multifamily properties.
In May 2021, HGI announced it had closed a $558 million commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation, a security backed by commercial real estate loans.
Prior to joining HGI in 2004, Litton worked as a corporate law partner at Hampton Roads law firm Kaufman & Canoles.
Litton earned his bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs and his law degree from the University of Virginia. He’s a founding director of Tidewater Friends of Foster Care and serves as its current secretary and treasurer, as well as a foster parent for the city of Norfolk. Litton also serves on the board of the ACCESS College Foundation, which has awarded scholarships for postsecondary education to more than 73,000 low-income students.
Malone
MATT MALONE
CEO AND OWNER, GROUNDWORKS COS., VIRGINIA BEACH
Groundworks has acquired 19 other foundation- services firms since 2016, when Malone formed the Virginia Beach-based holding company for businesses that conduct foundation repair, basement waterproofing, crawl space repair, water management systems and concrete lifting.
Today, Groundworks operates more than 40 offices in 27 states, with more than 3,200 employees. It appeared on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing privately held companies.
In January 2020, Groundworks announced a partnership with the Cortec Group, a multibillion-dollar private equity firm. “They grind just like the men and women of Groundworks, and, most importantly, they value people,” Malone said in a statement. “We did diligence on numerous potential growth capital partners, but, after speaking with the CEO of the Cortec portfolio company, YETI, I was sold.”
In 2009, Malone founded Succession Capital Partners, the only professional buyout firm headquartered in the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area. Prior to that, he spent several years working in finance.
A Rotary International Ambassadorial Fellow, Malone earned a bachelor’s degree from Hampden-Sydney College and holds a master’s degree in international finance from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
McLaughlin
RYAN T. McLAUGHLIN
CEO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, FAIRFAX
McLaughlin, who took the helm at NVAR in 2015, oversees a 32-person staff, as well as a Realtor school and store. NVAR represents about 13,000 real estate professionals from the Washington, D.C., metro area, making it one of the largest regional Realtors associations in the United States.
Previously, McLaughlin was CEO of the Greater Lehigh Valley Realtors in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He served on the Lower Macungie Township (Pennsylvania) Board of Commissioners from 2009 to 2015, and he holds a bachelor’s degree from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Albany.
McLaughlin also serves as vice chair on the National Association of Realtors 2021 Association Executives Committee Roster and is a member of the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce board.
FIRST JOB: I worked at a local Italian cafe making cappuccinos and espresso drinks before Starbucks was a thing.
ONE THING I WOULD CHANGE ABOUT VIRGINIA: The traffic in Northern Virginia.
FAVORITE SONG: “Seek and Destroy,” by Metallica
Milkovich
BOB MILKOVICH
CEO, RAND CONSTRUCTION CORP., ALEXANDRIA
Milkovich joined Rand Construction Corp. in January 2019 as its chief, the culmination of more than 30 years of commercial real estate and leadership experience.
The privately owned, national commercial general contractor specializes in retail and restaurant construction, as well as tenant interiors and building renovations, and its projects include headquarters for Arlington’s Avalon Bay and the March of Dimes. Last year, six Rand projects won awards from the Associated Builders and Contractors group in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, and the company exceeded $400 million in sales last year.
Milkovich previously was CEO and trustee of First Potomac Realty Trust, a Bethesda, Maryland-based publicly traded real estate investment trust; president of Spaulding & Slye Investments, a comprehensive real estate services and investment company; and region director for Archon Group LP, an investment and management arm of the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs.
He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Maryland, where Milkovich was quarterback on the football team. Today, he serves on the board of directors for the University System of Maryland Foundation.
Paulette
WILLIAM A. ‘BILL’ PAULETTE
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, KBS INC., RICHMOND
In 1975, Paulette founded a one-person construction company with $1,000. Today, KBS Inc. delivers multimillion-dollar projects, including the Virginia Department of Transportation headquarters, the Virginia State Police Joint Operations Center and the 2013 expansion and renovation of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk.
Last year, KBS completed a $25 million expansion of Richmond’s Virginia War Memorial, adding educational facilities, administrative office space, a lecture hall and a parking deck, as well as a new shrine honoring veterans from the Global War on Terror. KBS also built the museum’s 2010 expansion, which tripled its size. According to the company, 85% of KBS’ current projects are from repeat customers.
Known as “Bunny” among his fellow cadets at Virginia Military Institute, Paulette graduated in 1969 with a civil engineering degree. He’s served on the institute’s board of visitors and as president of the VMI Keydet Club. KBS also constructed VMI’s Paulette Hall, which houses locker room facilities. Growing up in South Hill, Paulette lived across the street from his future wife, Carolyn.
Peterson
JON M. PETERSON
CEO AND CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, PETERSON COS., FAIRFAX
When he ascended to Peterson Cos.’ top role in 2018, Jon Peterson stepped into the large shoes of his father, Milton V. Peterson.
The senior Peterson died in May at the age of 85, with a legacy of building some of the Washington, D.C., area’s earliest planned communities in the 1970s with fellow developer Til Hazel. Milt Peterson was the developer behind Maryland’s National Harbor, a mixed-use waterfront destination that’s home to residences, stores, restaurants, the MGM National Harbor casino resort and an observation wheel. It drew more than 28 million annual visitors in pre-COVID times.
A Middlebury College alum and lacrosse aficionado, Jon Peterson serves on the George Mason University board of visitors. He’s also a member of the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance board and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties’ Northern Virginia regional board.
A Balfour Beatty team member since 1987, Phillips has overseen construction of more than 45 projects totaling $4 billion, including the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico and the $1.4 billion National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Campus East Headquarters at Fort Belvoir.
In recent company news, Balfour Beatty, partnering with Greensboro-based Samet Corp., broke ground in February on the new Forsyth County Courthouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It’s slated to open in April 2023.
The company announced last year it had been awarded a $127 million redevelopment project to turn Washington, D.C.’s Randall School, which historically served African-American students, into an arts campus and residential apartment building.
The U.S. branch of the London-based corporation employs 4,500 people and reported $5 billion in revenue in 2020.
Phillips is a member of the Associated General Contractors of Virginia Inc., the Society of American Military Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He earned his bachelor’s in civil engineering from Penn State.
Roberson
STEWART D. ROBERSON
CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, MOSELEY ARCHITECTS, RICHMOND
For more than four decades, Roberson worked in K-12 education, a career that included 16 years as superintendent of schools in Hanover County. For his life’s next chapter, he decided to try something different.
In 2011, Roberson took the helm at Moseley Architects, which serves clients in the K-12, higher education, civic, justice, senior living and multifamily housing sectors. The firm has performed work on the Fredericksburg Courthouse, James Madison University’s School of Business and Old Dominion University’s Kornblau Field.
During Roberson’s tenure, Moseley has merged with three other firms, most recently the Charleston, South Carolina-based Cummings & McCrady.
Even as he leads the architectural, engineering, planning and interior design firm, Roberson continues to work for Virginia’s students. In February, Gov. Ralph Northam appointed Roberson to the state Board of Education, and he’s chair of the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education and the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee. He also sits on the board of trustees of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.
Roberson earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Virginia.
Robinson
COLIN ROBINSON
AREA MANAGER AND RICHMOND BUSINESS UNIT LEADER, GILBANE BUILDING CO., RICHMOND
Robinson joined Gilbane as a project engineer in 2000. Today, he leads the Richmond office for the Providence, Rhode Island-based construction company.
At the time of Robinson’s 2020 promotion, Executive Vice President Paul Choquette III described him as having led “some of the most complex and technical projects Gilbane has ever completed.” Robinson was project manager for the renovations of Richmond’s Carpenter Theatre, which reopened in 2009, and the Altria Theater, which was completed in 2014.
Last year, Gilbane completed a renovation of Altria Group’s corporate headquarters in Henrico County that included an addition, and the company is finishing construction of the Virginia General Assembly’s new 14-story tower, a $181 million project started in 2016.
Gilbane has more than 3,000 employees and reported $6.5 billion in 2020 revenue. A James Madison University alum, Robinson is a Richmond native.
Rogers
LOUIS J. ROGERS
FOUNDER AND CEO, CAPITAL SQUARE 1031, GLEN ALLEN
In 2012, Rogers founded Capital Square 1031, a firm that helps investors qualify for tax cuts (under IRS Section 1031) by spending their earnings on other properties.
Rogers came from Hirschler, where he founded and led the law firm’s real estate securities practice group from 1987 to 2004. Additionally, he helped form and lead Triple Net Properties LLC, which became the nation’s largest sponsor of securitized Section 1031 exchange programs.
Capital Square has completed more than $3 billion in transactions since its founding, although that could change with the American Families Plan, a $1.8 trillion federal spending bill that would cap the 1031 exchange at $500,000.
Rogers’ firm has recently entered real estate development, focusing on tax-advantaged properties. The company is currently building three mixed-use developments in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition neighborhood.
WHAT MAKES ME PASSIONATE ABOUT MY WORK:I live to work, and work is like play when you genuinely enjoy what you do.
HOW MY ORGANIZATION WEATHERED THE PANDEMIC:Capital Square has experienced real estate professionals who are able to get the job done from home, while on the road or from the office.
BEVERAGE OF CHOICE: Margarita
PAUL C. SAVILLE
PRESIDENT AND CEO, NVR INC., RESTON
In 2005, Saville was named CEO of NVR, a publicly traded homebuilding company that sells and constructs homes under the Ryan Homes, NVHomes and Heartland Homes brands.
One of the nation’s leading homebuilders, NVR was founded in 1980 and now serves home buyers in 14 states. The company also operates a mortgage banking and title services business.
Saville, who joined Ryan Homes in 1981 and worked his way up to chief financial officer in 1993, now leads about 6,100 full-time employees, up by 400 from the end of 2019. NVR reported more than $7.5 billion in 2020 revenue.
In 2018, Saville was the highest-paid CEO of a publicly held Virginia company, receiving $39.1 million, mostly in option awards, but his earnings came back down to earth in 2019 and 2020. Last year, he made $4 million in salary and bonuses. Saville is an alum of William & Mary and the University of Pittsburgh’s business school.
Schall
BENJAMIN W. SCHALL
PRESIDENT, AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES INC., ARLINGTON
Schall joined AvalonBay in January as president of the publicly traded real estate investment trust. He will succeed Timothy J. Naughton as CEO at the end of 2021, with Naughton transitioning to executive chair after more than 30 years at the company.
AvalonBay acquires, develops and manages multifamily communities across the country, and more than 650 of its 3,100 employees are based in Virginia. The company was on the 2021 Fortune 1000 list. As of March 31, it owned or held interest in 290 apartment communities, with most of its Virginia holdings in Fairfax and Arlington counties and Alexandria.
A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Business School, Schall previously was president and CEO at Seritage Growth Properties, a New York-based publicly traded real estate investment trust. He also held executive roles at Rouse Properties Inc. and Vornado Realty Trust.
Schoppmann
KYLE SCHOPPMANN
PRESIDENT, MID-ATLANTIC DIVISION, CBRE GROUP INC., WASHINGTON, D.C.
Schoppmann oversees day-to-day strategic direction, performance and growth of her division for all CBRE lines of business, and she is a member of CBRE’s diversity, equity and inclusion council, which has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for the last eight years.
After joining CBRE as managing director of brokerage services in 2007, Schoppmann quickly moved up to senior marketing director and later to executive managing director. The Duke University and University of Michigan graduate was managing director for CBRE’s tri-state region before taking her current post. She also has received several honors for her work, including being named one of Washingtonian magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Washington in 2019.
NEW LIFE EXPERIENCE:I enjoy cycling and used to race mountain and road bikes. When my local spin studio closed due to the pandemic, I bought a Peloton and love it!
FAVORITE VACATION DESTINATIONS:Paris and Kauai, Hawaii. For a quick getaway, Delray Beach, Florida.
WHAT I’VE LEARNED:Be yourself and play to your strengths, especially in new situations. Remember that no one can be you the way you can be you.
Stone
DONALD E. ‘DON’ STONE JR.
CEO, THE DEWBERRY COS. INC., FAIRFAX
Stone, who has more than 35 years of engineering experience, took the reins at Dewberry in 2010. Two years earlier, he arrived at the family-owned planning, design and construction firm as chief operating officer and leader of the infrastructure engineering services practice.
During his tenure, Stone has overseen several significant acquisitions, including Alabama-based Edmonds Engineering. Dewberry, which has more than 2,000 employees and more than 50 offices, reported $463 million in 2020 revenue.
In March, the firm won a $2.6 million contract to develop the state’s first Coastal Resilience Master Plan, and in May, the Virginia Department of Transportation selected the firm to provide engineering services for the $200 million widening of Interstate 81 in Roanoke County and Salem. Previously, Dewberry was lead consultant on Virginia Beach’s Sea Level Wise project and worked on developing a coastal protection plan for Louisiana.
Before joining Dewberry, Stone spent 25 years at O’Brien & Gere, where he rose to president of the company’s total water solutions division. A graduate of the Citadel, Stone served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retiring as a captain in 1983.
Suit
TERRIE L. SUIT
CEO, VIRGINIA REALTORS, GLEN ALLEN
Suit was named CEO of Virginia Realtors, the state’s largest trade association, which supports about 36,000 Realtors and real estate professionals, about eight years ago.
Getting her start in the industry in 1985 as a Realtor, Suit went on to work for about two decades in mortgage lending.
In 1999, Suit, a Republican, was elected to the House of Delegates, serving until 2008. In 2010, Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed Suit to be assistant to the governor for commonwealth preparedness and later named her Virginia’s first secretary of veterans affairs and homeland security.
Suit earned her associate degree at Tidewater Community College, her bachelor’s degree in political science from Old Dominion University and an MBA from the University of Mary Washington.
HOBBY/PASSION: I am frequently called the Crazy Cat Lady due to my passion for taking in rescue cats. At one time we were up to 13, but now we are down to only five, with a sixth about to join our family.
MOST RECENT BOOK READ: “Where the Crawdads Sing,” by Delia Owens.
ONE THING I WOULD CHANGE ABOUT VIRGINIA: Not a thing. I love Virginia.
Swaak
DERRICK SWAAK
PARTNER AND MANAGING BROKER, TTR SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY, McLEAN
Swaak came aboard TTR Sotheby’s International Realty as a partner in 2007, and he serves as managing broker for the high-end residential markets in McLean and The Plains.
A Cornell alumnus with degrees in hotel administration and business, Swaak is currently president of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors, which has more than 12,000 members.
Before joining Sotheby’s, Swaak was vice president of national sales for Realogy Corp., and he was employed earlier in hotel development, acquisitions and franchise sales.
In 2018, he was appointed to a task force to develop a long-term redevelopment plan for downtown McLean, where his family lives, and Swaak previously served as board chair of the McLean Project for the Arts.
HOBBY: Hiking
WHAT I WAS LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL: Studious and adventurous
FIRST JOB:Bellman in a hotel
Van Metre
ALBERT G. ‘BEAU’ VAN METRE JR.
CHAIRMAN AND PARTNER, VAN METRE COS. INC., FAIRFAX
Beau Van Metre’s father, Albert G. Van Metre Sr., founded Van Metre Cos. in 1955 as a builder of single-family homes. Today, the real estate company has about 500 employees and subsidiaries in development, construction, apartments and commercial real estate.
Beau Van Metre became vice chairman of the privately held company in 2002, and in 2008 he was appointed chairman. The firm is behind the construction of about 16,000 houses and major office and retail projects in Fairfax and Loudoun counties, and in 2020 the company earned $350 million in revenue, down from $436 million in 2019.
Van Metre and his sister, Alison Van Metre Paley, established the Van Metre Family Foundation, which benefits education, the arts, veterans, people living in poverty and animal welfare. The foundation has donated more than $3.3 million to charities since 2014, including donating a parcel of land in Loudoun for Capital Caring’s The Adler Center for palliative care. Van Metre also donated 37 acres in Ashburn to George Mason University in 2009.
Van Metre’s son-in-law is NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, and his daughter Ashley is a professional polo player who was on a 2018 team with Prince Harry.
Warfield
LEE WARFIELD
PRESIDENT, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD | THALHIMER, RICHMOND
As president, chairman and CEO of one of Richmond’s oldest commercial real estate firms, Warfield is responsible for strategic direction and leadership for the firm’s 10 offices and 450 associates in Virginia and South Carolina. He’s overseen the successful launch of Thalhimer offices in Hampton Roads, western Virginia and the Carolinas.
Since joining Thalhimer as an associate broker in 1995, Warfield has represented national retailers such as Home Depot, Sam’s Club and Kroger. After rising through the ranks, Warfield was promoted to president in 2011. In 2016, he became the firm’s CEO, making him only the fourth person to hold that position since Thalhimer’s founding in 1913.
In May, the company announced a partnership with Richmond-based Cyberclean Systems to use robot vacuums to clean and disinfect commercial spaces.
Warfield serves on the board of directors of Sports Backers, a Richmond nonprofit that organizes annual races, including the VCU Health Richmond Marathon and the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10K. A James Madison University graduate, Warfield enjoys playing basketball and tennis and is a Boston Celtics fan.
About 400 acres of underutilized land at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach could be leased for private development, according to a new agreement between the Navy and the city of Virginia Beach.
The agreement was signed Thursday.
The concept, known as Future Base Design, would mean that the land would be leased to private businesses in exchange for in-kind consideration that could provide building maintenance and other infrastructure projects on the installation, according to a news release from the Navy. The other goal is to reduce costs for the Navy.
Additionally, it creates economic and private business development opportunities to integrate public and private services currently provided by and accessible to only Department of Defense affiliated personnel, such as housing, dining, retail and recreation, according to the release.
The land is attractive because of its location adjacent to Interstate 64, the Oceanfront neighborhood and the Port of Virginia.
“We’ve got to bring in those new businesses and companies,” Virginia Beach Mayor Buddy Dyer said in a statement. “We’re running out of space [in Virginia Beach] in terms of land for development, but that just gives us a plethora of opportunities that we can take forward.”
The flight line and other essential military activities would remain secure behind the installation’s fence line and would not be opened to the public.
The Navy would retain ownership of the land, but the city would find businesses compatible with the base’s mission. It is home to all East Coast strike-fighter units.
The city of Petersburg filed a lawsuit Friday against the company owned by developer and former NFL player Chris Harrison, who promised in 2015 to replace the city’s shuttered and dilapidated Ramada Inn with a brand-new hotel, 100 apartment units and retail space. Six years later, redevelopment has not taken place.
In Friday’s filing, Petersburg City Attorney Anthony C. Williams seeks a declaratory judgment from the Petersburg Circuit Court that would force Chris Harrison’s company to either “abate the unsafe conditions” on the property at 380 E. Washington St., or allow the city to demolish the building or take other steps to make the property safer. Petersburg City Council adopted an ordinance in April that declared the property blighted and a “public nuisance,” and directed the city attorney and manager to compel the owner to “abate, raze or remove the public nuisance,” according to a news release Friday from the city attorney’s office.
If the city receives a judgment in its favor, Williams will seek to hire local waste contractor Meridian Waste Acquisitions LLC to demolish the hotel — allowing the company to offset civil penalties it incurred from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for its operation of the Tri-Cities Landfill. The state has filed suit against Meridian’s parent company, CFS Group Disposal and Recycling Services LLC, but is in settlement negotiations that could include the demolition and waste disposal of the Ramada Inn at no cost to the city.
“We remain hopeful that the proposal to DEQ and Meridian will come to fruition, but regardless, the city will continue to press forward and do all it can to ensure that this property is rendered in a safe condition for our citizens,” Petersburg Mayor Sam Parham said in a statement Friday.
C.A. Harrison Cos. took ownership of the hotel and adjacent land in March 2018, pledging that it would be part of a large redevelopment of the city’s entrance off Interstate 95, including retail and apartments and a hospitality training program in connection with Virginia State University.
Thee project was troubled from the start, however, taking more than two years to finalize the $750,000 sale following Harrison’s 10% deposit in August 2015. At the city’s December 2015 announcement of the project’s details, Harrison said he planned to have the new hotel built and in business by June 2017.
But by October 2019, the city issued Harrison’s company a violation notice for “loose materials that could endanger life or damage property,” followed by other violations and six criminal misdemeanor summonses issued last year against Harrison.
In an interview with The Progress-Index in January 2020, Harrison said that he has had trouble financing the $20 million project, particularly after losing a $5 million tourism grant from the city of Petersburg, which closed its tourism department in 2016. Harrison did not immediately respond to an email from Virginia Business seeking comment on Friday.
Meanwhile, the University of Virginia alumnus and former NFL offensive guard and tackle started work last year redeveloping Richmond’s Model Tobacco building, in which his company is investing $59 million to build 203 high-end apartments. That project is set to be completed by 2022.
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