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NoVa data center development moves down I-95
Stafford County is experiencing rapid data center growth with three major projects underway and 18 in the pipeline, driven by developers like Vantage Data Centers.
ICE eyes massive Hanover warehouse for processing facility
ICE hopes to purchase a more than 552,000-square-foot warehouse in Hanover County and repurpose it into a processing facility.
Vantage Data Centers to invest $2B on Stafford campus
Vantage Data Centers plans $2 billion campus in Fredericksburg, creating 1,100 construction jobs and 50 operations jobs when complete.
Stafford delays voting on proposed Buc-ee’s
Stafford County Planning Commission delays vote on a 74,000-square-foot Buc-ee’s as residents raise traffic and safety concerns.
Buc-ee’s hiring for first Virginia location opening in June
Buc-ee’s to open its first Virginia location in Rockingham County June 30, creating 200 jobs with wages from $18–$24/hour.
Here’s NVAR’s prediction for 2025 NoVa housing market
The Northern Virginia housing market will continue to strengthen in 2025, with moderate price increases and increased market activity, according to the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors’ 2025 regional housing market forecast, produced with George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis. Examining the past year, Terry Clower, director of the Center for Regional Analysis [...]
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 […]
State delays choosing Shenandoah medical marijuana provider
At its June 26 meeting, the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority was expected to announce which company, among 40 applicants, had been selected from a highly competitive process to become the sole licensed pharmaceutical processor of medical cannabis for a region including the entire Shenandoah Valley, as well as the cities of Charlottesville and Fredericksburg and […]
Buc-ee’s eyes Stafford for third Va. location
The most recognized — perhaps only — hat-wearing beaver in the travel center industry is eyeing a third location in Virginia, this time in Stafford County. Texas-based travel center chain Buc-ee’s has submitted a conditional use permit application to Stafford County for a 74,000-square-foot travel center with 120 fueling stations on about 36 acres on […]
Defense and defensibility
When it comes to tech and government contractors, Northern Virginia‘s national profile continued to rise in 2022. Arlington County, where Amazon.com Inc.’s multibillion-dollar HQ2 is continuing to take shape in National Landing, made headlines around the globe in spring 2022. Fortune 500 companies Boeing Co. and Raytheon Technologies Corp. announced within weeks of each other […[...]
Arlington cybersecurity firm promotes CEO
Jennifer Tisdale has been promoted to CEO of GRIMM, the Arlington-based cybersecurity firm announced Tuesday. She was previously the firm’s senior principal of cyber-physical systems security. “Having spent the last decade dedicated to the advocacy of cybersecurity research and testing, it is an honor to lead the strategic direction and phenomenal cybersecurity talent at GRIMM,” [...]
Stafford supervisor elected to head VACo
Stafford County Supervisor Meg Bohmke was elected the next president of the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo) at the group’s annual conference in Norfolk on Nov. 16. Bohmke succeeds Fairfax County Chairman Jeffrey C. McKay and becomes the second president from Stafford to lead the association, following Ferris M. Belman who led the group from […]
