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Aug 29, 2024

For the Record September 2024

CENTRAL  The City of Richmond is progressing on the new Diamond District baseball stadium for the Richmond Flying Squirrels. The city announced July 25 it had sold about $130 million worth of bonds to fund construction of the stadium, a pivotal step toward building the minor league ballpark that will anchor the new district. The […]

Revivicor is building a $100 million Montgomery County facility where it will raise genetically modified pigs bred as organ donors for humans. Photo by Don Petersen
Aug 30, 2023

Revivicor’s $100 million pig-organ facility moves forward

By early next year, Blacksburg-based Revivicor will be raising genetically modified pigs in Montgomery County, with plans to harvest their hearts and kidneys for xenotransplantation into human patients. Founded in 2003 as a spinoff company of PPL Therapeutics (the company that cloned Dolly the sheep seven years earlier), Revivicor provided the genetically modified pig heart […]

Apr 12, 2023

Hampton Roads organizations merge to form new roundtable

Two Hampton Roads regional economic development organizations are merging to establish the Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable, with the goal of unifying their efforts. The new organization will combine Hampton Roads Business Roundtable, established in 2012, and Reinvent Hampton Roads, established in 2016, with the primary mission of coordinating the alignment of the region’s economic develop[...]

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