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Taubmans give $25 million for Carilion cancer center
Carilion Clinic will soon break ground on a new building for an expanded cancer program thanks to a $25 million gift from a Star City family, the largest ever made to the nonprofit health care system. The gift from former Advance Auto Parts CEO Nicholas Taubman, also a past U.S. ambassador to Romania, and his […]
Roanoke-area pediatrician is suspended over alleged sexual, profane comments
Following complaints from co-workers and patients’ parents over sexual and profane comments, the Virginia Board of Medicine suspended the medical license of Roanoke-area pediatrician Dr. Dalton M. Renick on Aug. 22, stating that “a substantial danger to public health or safety” warranted Renick’s summary suspension. The board’s Notice of Formal Hearing included allegations th[...]
Va. Western Community College president to retire
President of Virginia Western Community College since 2001, Robert Sandel steered the two-year, public higher education institution into the 21st century, more than doubling enrollment and overseeing more than $138 million in construction and renovations. On Monday, the Roanoke-based college announced Sandel’s plans to retire at the end of June. When Sandel started, the VWCC […]
Va. localities win $126M in grants for industrial sites
Gov. Glenn Youngkin this week announced $126 million in Virginia Business Ready Sites Program development grants to fund work on 23 industrial sites in the commonwealth. Virginia’s growing inventory of project-ready sites was a factor in CNBC naming the commonwealth America’s Top State for Business in July, Gov. Youngkin noted in a Thursday news release. […]
Virginia Credit Union-Member One merger approved
Virginia Credit Union’s merger with Roanoke-based Member One Federal Credit Union was finalized Thursday, following a vote by Member One’s customers to approve the deal announced in January. Effective Thursday, Member One becomes a division of VACU “as the organization works toward full integration of its systems and service platforms,” according to a news release […[...]
Carilion Clinic CEO Agee announces retirement
After more than a decade at the helm of Carilion Clinic, Nancy Howell Agee plans to retire at the end of September, the health system announced Wednesday. Steve Arner, who was promoted to president in May 2023, will replace her as Carilion’s top executive, effective Oct. 1. Agee was born at Roanoke Memorial and later […]
Inova Fairfax Hospital ranks No. 1 in Va. for fourth year
For the fourth consecutive year, Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church has taken the No. 1 spot in Virginia on the U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the best hospitals in the nation, released Tuesday. The Inova Health System hospital also ranked first in the Washington, D.C., metro area for the fourth straight […]
Roanoke developer pivots from office space to downtown park
Sometimes the best decision a builder can make is not to build. That’s the conclusion Lucas Thornton, managing partner at Hist:Re Partners in Roanoke, recently reached, although his plans for an office building may happen in the future. Thornton’s downtown mixed-use development, The Bower, was set to open by late June with 90 one- and […]
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 […]
CARRIE McCONNELL
What does it take to start a new community bank from scratch?As with any new business, there are plenty of decisions to make, not to mention obtaining regulatory approvals. It’s no surprise then that the past few years have been very busy for Carrie McConnell of Ridge View Bank. But the journey also has been […]
KIM SNYDER
Fewer than one in five C-suite positions in financial services are held by women globally, according to Deloitte. But Kim Snyder, founder and CEO of Roanoke-based banking software company KlariVis, defies the odds. After “many rewarding years in community banking,” a 2015 acquisition by BNC Bancorp displaced her from her job as chief financial officer […]
Branch Group acquires N.C. contractor
The Branch Group, a Roanoke-based heavy-highway and building contractor, has closed on its acquisition of Burnsville, North Carolina-based Young & McQueen, a 37-year-old contracting firm specializing in heavy civil and highway construction, site work, bridges and structures construction, the company announced Monday. Branch declined to release financial terms of the deal, which closed on May [[...]
