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Command consolidation could decimate Fort Eustis
Uncertainty swept through Hampton Roads this summer when the U.S. Army announced a significant transformation of its Training and Doctrine Command, aka TRADOC, headquartered at Fort Eustis in Newport News. In May, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee that the command would be merged with the Army Futures […]
Hampton Roads grows warehouses, industrial projects
Despite a nationwide slowdown in industrial growth, Hampton Roads has major projects in its pipeline. In Virginia Beach, Amazon is wrapping up work on its five-floor, 3.2 million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center, the second part of a $350 million project that includes a 219,000-square-foot delivery station that opened last year. At the site, robots will move […]
Hampton Roads housing market remains competitive
Hampton Roads home prices hit a $375K median in June as low inventory drives demand, with new builds expanding in Suffolk and New Kent.
Sentara College of Health Sciences moving to Virginia Wesleyan
Sentara College of Health Sciences will join Virginia Wesleyan in 2026, expanding access to nursing and health care degree programs.
ODU internship boost preps students for future
As a creative writing major at Old Dominion University, Kayla Boney says she knows jobs in her field after graduation may be “one in a million.” However, an internship with Teens with a Purpose, a Norfolk-based youth creative arts nonprofit, showed Boney, a 20-year-old rising junior, that her pursuits in the humanities, while challenging, can […]
Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion nears final stages
The $3.9B Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion is on track for 2027, with 2,400 workers building tunnels, bridges and support facilities.
Homegrown success: Hampton Roads Inc. 5000 firms
It may go without saying that a company called TheBestReputation might lean into the name it built for itself as it considers success. TheBestReputation CEO and co-founder Chris Hinman also credits his team’s hard work for helping land the Williamsburg-based digital marketing, public relations and online reputation management firm at No. 201 on the 2025 […]
An overview of Hampton Roads
Home to 1.79 million people across 17 localities, Hampton Roads is Virginia’s second most populous region, just behind Northern Virginia. It also boasts the commonwealth’s biggest city by population: Virginia Beach, with an estimated 457,066 residents. Nearby Norfolk is the densest locality in the region, with 4,467 people per square mile, according to 2020 U.S. Census data. [&hellip[...]
TowneBank grows market share via M&A
TowneBank is once again the leader in the Hampton Roads banking market, holding a nearly 30% share as of June 2024. That’s set to grow quickly. Towne’s $203 million acquisition of Norfolk-based Old Point National Bank of Phoebus and its parent company closed in September. In August, TowneBank announced it plans to acquire North Carolina’s […]
From the Editor: In this year’s Hampton Roads Business
This year’s edition of Hampton Roads Business takes a look at the impact on the region from a host of Trump administration policy changes on everything from trade to federal spending and restrictions on wind energy. In this issue’s main feature, local freelance journalist Jim Morrison finds that while regional business leaders are concerned about […]
Whistleblowers amend complaint against Sentara
Whistleblowers last week filed an amended complaint accusing Sentara of improperly inflating 2018–2019 insurance rates.
Port of Virginia sees 8.7% drop in cargo traffic
The Port of Virginia has seen a decline in shipping container volumes in recent months, amid President Trump's trade war.
