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Mar 17, 2025

InterChange announces several leadership changes

Mount Crawford-based industrial developer and logistics company InterChange Group announced several major changes to its executive leadership. Effective March 10, Keith VanBenschoten assumed the role of chief strategy officer, and Cliff Alt was promoted to chief operating officer. The company also announced that Timothy Cognata had been appointed director of sales. A company spokesperson said [&he[...]

International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) President Harold J. Daggett joined dockworkers on strike outside the gates at Maher Terminal in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Oct. 2. Photo courtesy International Longshoremen’s Association
Oct 2, 2024

As dockworkers strike continues, experts weigh potential supply chain impacts

The situation remains at a stalemate following the first day of a historic strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) at ports from Maine to Texas. Thousands of ILA members joined the picket line as a midnight deadline passed Monday evening — with no deal reached between ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), […]

Aug 30, 2024

Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List

Who are Virginia’s most powerful and influential leaders in business, government, politics and education this year? Find out in the fifth annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List. Read more about how we assembled the Virginia 500 from our editor.  Executives are listed in alphabetical order by industry. Below you will find links […]

Aug 29, 2024

2024 Virginia 500: Transportation

DEVON C. ANDERS PRESIDENT, INTERCHANGE GROUP, MOUNT CRAWFORD     MONICA BACKMON CEO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, FAIRFAX COUNTY     RYAN BANAS ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND HRBT EXPANSION PROJECT DIRECTOR, HNTB, NORFOLK      JUDY BARRETT PRESIDENT, VIRGINIA MARITIME ASSOCIATION; SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, TOWNEBANK, NORFOLK     P. DALE BENNETT PR[...]

Jul 30, 2024

Amazing race

Virginia is reaping thousands of jobs and huge tax revenues as Amazon.com revamps its U.S. delivery network. The e-commerce giant is opening major distribution centers and sorting facilities across the commonwealth as part of its nationwide strategy to get goods to consumers faster and stay one step ahead of competitors like Walmart and Target that […]

Jul 2, 2024

Dewberry wins $810M FEMA contract

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Dewberry, an engineering, architecture and construction firm in Fairfax County, an $810 million contract to deliver logistics planning and construction services to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to a System for Award Management (SAM) notice published Friday. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract will support FEMA�[...]

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Jul 1, 2024

Work begins on Stafford County industrial park

NorthPoint Development, a real estate operating company based in Kansas City, Missouri, broke ground in Stafford County on Tuesday on what’s being touted as the largest industrial park project along Interstate 95 from Washington, D.C., to Richmond.  The Austin Ridge Logistics Center on Austin Ridge Drive in Stafford will include five to seven buildings, for […]

Jun 27, 2024

A practical plan for U.S. 220

Picture an hourglass: Flip the timer over, and the sand at the top funnels through a small opening to pool in the wider receptacle at its bottom. Now imagine if that hole in the middle were wider; sand would flow more freely. That’s how business leaders in Martinsville see the U.S. Route 220 corridor between […]

Apr 29, 2024

Watercourse of study

Starting this fall, Old Dominion University students will have a new interdisciplinary school dedicated to maritime work, logistics and supply chain management — an upgrade from an earlier program offered through the Strome College of Business. In September 2023, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) approved ODU’s School of Supply Chain, Logistics, […]

Apr 29, 2024

Prime for development

In the past year, Amazon.com continued its march across the commonwealth, announcing plans to build a 650,000-square-foot fulfillment center and a 219,000-square-foot delivery station in Virginia Beach, which are collectively expected to produce more than 1,000 jobs. About 60% the size of the Pentagon, Virginia’s second largest building belongs to Amazon — a 3.8 million-square-foot […]

Mar 14, 2024

Food storage company to invest $77.5M in Suffolk facility

New Jersey-based cold and dry storage services provider FreezPak Logistics will invest $77.5 million to build a Suffolk facility, a project expected to create 80 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. FreezPak will build a 245,000-square-foot cold storage facility in Suffolk to serve the mid-Atlantic region. The 80 new jobs will be in warehouse operations […]

Feb 28, 2024

Shenandoah Valley Year-in-Review: Green valley

Just a couple years later, an $821,000 site development grant awarded to the Shenandoah Valley Partnership by the state’s GO Virginia economic development initiative has already been paying off, says Jay Langston, the partnership’s executive director. The grant, which paid for work including site evaluation and related environmental reviews and surveys, was focused on improving […]

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