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Could Boeing HQ move be in the cards?
In May 2022, Virginia officials were in a buoyant mood as Fortune Global 500 aerospace and defense giant Boeing announced it would move its world headquarters from Chicago to Arlington County, with then-President and CEO Dave Calhoun having conferred with Gov. Glenn Youngkin months ahead about the move. Nearly three years later, the mood is […]
CoStar makes deal to move into Arlington HQ in early 2025
CoStar Group is accelerating its headquarters move from Washington, D.C., to Arlington County, thanks to a deal with a tenant in the headquarters building that included a $48 million early termination fee. The global real estate data and analytics company, best known for its Apartments.com and Homes.com marketplaces, announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters […]
Virginia is for HQs
When CoStar Group was searching for its new headquarters in 2022, Central Place Tower at 1201 Wilson Blvd. in Arlington County, with its impressive accompanying bird’s-eye views, captured the company’s attention. Located about a quarter mile from the Potomac River, the gleaming, 391-foot-tall Class A office building features floor-to-ceiling windows across its 31 stories, reflecting [...]
Owens & Minor leases new HQ in Henrico
Henrico County is getting a fifth Fortune 500 company. Global health care logistics and supply company Owens & Minor is moving from Hanover County to a new headquarters in Henrico’s Innsbrook Corporate Center. The company is leasing the fourth floor of the Highwoods One building at 10900 Nuckols Road, according to Will Bradley, an executive […]
VDOT buys Owens & Minor’s Hanover HQ for $33.5M
The Virginia Department of Transportation has purchased the Mechanicsville headquarters of Owens & Minor for $33.5 million, with plans to move the state agency’s central office there in summer 2025. Much of VDOT’s staff will move from the Annex building at 1401 E. Broad St. into the new building at 9120 Lockwood Blvd. in Hanover […]
CoStar Group moving global HQ to Arlington
UPDATED: Feb. 16, 10 a.m. CoStar Group, which already has a major presence in Richmond, will invest $20 million to move its global corporate headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Arlington County‘s Rosslyn area, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. Known for its online real estate marketplaces Apartments.com and Homes.com, the real estate analytics and data […]
Framatome plans $49.4M expansion, creating 515 jobs
Framatome, a French nuclear power company with its United States headquarters in Lynchburg, will invest $49.4 million to expand, modernize and enhance its facilities, creating an estimated 515 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. The expansion will meet increased demand for servicing existing nuclear power plants and developing solutions for advanced and small nuclear reactors. […]
Timmons tops off $50M HQ in Chesterfield County
Engineering and design firm Timmons Group topped off the last steel beam of its new, $50 million headquarters Friday at Chesterfield County’s Springline at District 60 mixed-use development. The five-story, 150,000-square-foot building is part of the $210 million, 42-acre first phase of the county’s Springline at District 60 development, located on Midlothian Turnpike off Chippenham [&[...]
GSA inspector general to probe FBI HQ site selection
Three weeks after U.S. Sen. Mark Warner lambasted a decision to place the FBI headquarters in Maryland instead of Springfield as “corrupt,” the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. General Services Administration said Thursday it would launch an investigation immediately, according to a letter made public by Warner’s office. In the letter dated […]
Warner condemns FBI HQ site selection as ‘corrupt’
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said Nov. 9 that the General Services Administration’s selection of Greenbelt, Maryland, instead of Fairfax County for the new FBI headquarters was a “corrupt” process, and that he expected better from the Biden administration. Warner’s comments followed an email that day from FBI Director Christopher Wray to the agency’s entire workforce, […]
Capital Square moves Glen Allen HQ
Glen Allen-based real estate company Capital Square has relocated to a new, expanded corporate headquarters in Henrico County’s Innsbrook area, not far from its original headquarters. Capital Square has subleased the space at 4851 Lake Brook Drive in the Innsbrook Corporate Center until March 2028. The new office, which is 44,867 square feet, is more […]
Love at first site
Home to eight Fortune 500 companies and three Fortune 1000 companies, metro Richmond is “punching above our weight” for a region of 1.3 million residents, says Jennifer Wakefield, president and CEO of the Greater Richmond Partnership. For the third year in a row, the Richmond region was named by Business Facilities magazine as a top […]
