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Vantage Data Centers to invest $2B on Stafford campus
Vantage Data Centers plans $2 billion campus in Fredericksburg, creating 1,100 construction jobs and 50 operations jobs when complete.
Stafford delays voting on proposed Buc-ee’s
Stafford County Planning Commission delays vote on a 74,000-square-foot Buc-ee’s as residents raise traffic and safety concerns.
Germanna Community College announces new president
Florida higher-education leader Tashika Griffith has been appointed as Germanna Community College’s seventh president.
Mary Washington Healthcare, UMW plan to launch medical school
Mary Washington Healthcare is planning to partner with the University of Mary Washington to launch a new medical school.
Fredericksburg weighs impact of federal job cuts
Northern Virginia politicians, all Democrats, started sounding the alarm immediately about federal job cuts and slashing of federal agencies’ budgets at the start of the second Trump administration in January. And there have been significant impacts in Fairfax and Arlington counties, as well as Alexandria, where the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is […]
Spotsylvania industrial portfolio sells for $38M
An entity sharing an address with the Pinkard Group, a Washington, D.C., regional real estate investment and development company, has purchased four light industrial and warehouse buildings in Spotsylvania County for $38 million, according to Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer. Located in Four Mile Fork Industrial Park, the county’s largest light industrial park, the Longwood […]
2025 Virginia Black Business Leaders Awards: Lee Mariano
With more than 20 years in human resources, Mariano now heads the HR department at one of the largest regional public accounting firms, a job she has held since 2023. Before that, she started her own executive coaching firm and held executive HR positions at multiple companies, including AgEagle Arial Systems and LookingGlass Cyber Solutions. […]
McDermott to depart as Mary Washington Healthcare CEO
Dr. Michael McDermott, president and CEO of Fredericksburg-based Mary Washington Healthcare since 2015, will leave to become head of Montage Health in California, the health system announced Monday. Dr. Christopher Newman, MWHC’s chief operating officer and chief medical officer, will succeed McDermott starting in spring 2025. Newman joined Mary Washington in 2019. He previously served [&hel[...]
Cannabis authority chooses Shenandoah Valley provider
On Thursday morning, the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority selected AYR Virginia, a wholly owned subsidiary of AYR Wellness, a cannabis operator in eight states, as the winner of a conditional approval that puts it on the path to become the sole licensed pharmaceutical processor of medical cannabis for a region of Virginia that includes the […]
Competition’s fierce for Shenandoah medical marijuana permit
UPDATE: State delays choosing Shenandoah medical marijuana provider The Virginia Cannabis Control Authority (CCA) received 40 complete applications for conditional permits to operate as the state’s sole licensed pharmaceutical processor of medical cannabis for a region including the Shenandoah Valley, as well as Charlottesville, Fredericksburg and the counties of Spotsylvania and Stafford. A[...]
State delays choosing Shenandoah medical marijuana provider
At its June 26 meeting, the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority was expected to announce which company, among 40 applicants, had been selected from a highly competitive process to become the sole licensed pharmaceutical processor of medical cannabis for a region including the entire Shenandoah Valley, as well as the cities of Charlottesville and Fredericksburg and […]
