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South Asian yogurt manufacturer to open Frederick County facility

Desi Fresh Foods, a producer of Indian-style spoonable and drinkable yogurt products, is opening a new manufacturing facility in Frederick County, creating 56 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday. 

The New York-based company will “invest a significant amount of money to open a new manufacturing facility,” according to a news release. Desi Fresh Foods and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership did not immediately return a request for comment on what amount company officials expect to spend.

The company is also committed to sourcing “a significant amount” of dairy ingredients from farmers in Virginia, according to the release. 

Patrick Barker, executive director of the Frederick County Economic Development Authority, said the Desi Fresh Foods facility will be located at Stonewall Industrial Park in Winchester.

“After an exhaustive search, we are thrilled to be opening our new facility in Northern Virginia,” Larry LaPorta, CEO of Desi Fresh Foods, said in a statement. “This move will not only allow us to streamline operations and increase production, but give us access to quality, essential ingredients that will help foster the growth of Desi Fresh Foods in the future and set us up for long-term success.” 

When Desi yogurt products were first created, according to the company’s website, if you visited an Indian grocery store in the United States, you would only find American style and brands of yogurt, which prompted the creation of Desi’s dahi, or South Asian yogurt. 

In 2018, Illinois’ Raymundo’s Food Group, a portfolio company of Florida’s AUA Private Equity Partners, purchased Desi Natural Dahi assets from Derle Farms, a New York milk and yogurt distributor. In 2023,  ICV Partners, a Miami- and Atlanta-based private investment firm, purchased Desi Natural and related assets from Raymundo’s Food Group.

Desi Fresh Foods’ product line also includes Desi Natural Paneer and Desi Natural Lassi and Yogurt Drinks.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services worked with the Frederick County Economic Development Authority to secure the project for Virginia, which competed with Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Youngkin approved a $150,000 grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund and a $150,000 grant from the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund to assist Frederick County with this project.  

Support for Desi Fresh Foods’ job creation will also be provided through the Virginia Talent Accelerator Program, a discretionary incentive program that provides free customizable workforce recruiting and training services for eligible businesses locating or expanding in Virginia

Fahrenheit Advisors hires Hampton Roads leader

Richmond consulting firm Fahrenheit Advisors has hired Stephen Hoy as managing director of business development for the Hampton Roads area, the company announced Monday. 

Hoy will develop new relationships and support existing clients from Williamsburg to Virginia Beach. 

Most recently, Hoy was director of sales and strategic partnerships for Strive, a California company that offers app- and web-based employee resources, according to his LinkedIn profile. There, Hoy launched new divisions and tailored product offerings to clients, according to a news release.

Hoy’s past work experience also includes positions as a market executive at Paycor, a human capital management platform, and as an outside sales representative for Lansing Building Products, headquartered in Henrico County. 

Hoy has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Christopher Newport University. 

Fahrenheit Advisors was founded in 2010 and consults for middle-market, Fortune 1000, nonprofit and governmental organizations. It has 140 employees.

Hand-built electric classic sports cars to be built in Danville

RBW Sports & Classics, a United Kingdom manufacturer of hand-built electric vehicles that have designs inspired by British sports cars from the 1960s and 1970s, plans to invest $8 million to establish a manufacturing facility at Cane Creek Centre in Danville, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. 

The project is expected to create 144 jobs. Those workers will produce RBW’s first left-hand drive, electric Roadster and GT models for the U.S. market. 

Peter Swain founded the company — which is named after his children, Rose, Becs and Wesley — in 2017. 

“Already selling in Europe, Asia and even Bermuda, the new facility in Virginia supports RBW’s entry to the U.S. market,” Swain, who is CEO, said in a statement. 

RBW delivered its first cars in 2022 and opened its first factory in the United Kingdom in 2023. The company currently manufactures electric Roadster and GT models, and its electric vehicle architecture and systems can be installed under other body shells.

The company unveiled its left-hand drive Roadster and GT models at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California, which ran from Aug. 15 to Aug. 18. Starting prices for RBW cars run between $139,000 to $151,000.

In July, Swain, who previously worked in security systems, was featured in a Financial Times article about whether the United Kingdom’s Labour Party should develop an industrial strategy. In the article, Swain noted more incentives are available in the United States for business owners. “We can get so much help everywhere — apart from in our own backyard,” he told the Financial Times.

The Cane Creek Centre is jointly owned by the City of Danville and Pittsylvania County. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Pittsylvania County, the City of Danville, the Danville-Pittsylvania County Regional Industrial Facility Authority and the Southern Virginia Regional Alliance to secure the project for Virginia.

Youngkin approved a $500,000 grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund to assist Danville and Pittsylvania County with this project. The Virginia Jobs Investment Program will also provide funding and services to support employee training activities.

SWVA projects recommended for $10M in federal grants

Four Southwest Virginia economic development projects have been recommended to receive a cumulative $10 million in federal Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) grants, Gov. Glenn Youngkin and U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, announced Monday.

The projects are on sites where coal was mined prior to 1977, the year the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act was passed. This federal law, among other things, requires the land to be adequately reclaimed when mining ends.

Funding for the AMLER program comes through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, which approves the grants, and the Virginia Department of Energy administers funding for projects in the state. 

“The AMLER program supports high impact projects that align with federal, state and local priorities to improve communities and foster economic development,” state Sen. Todd Pillion, R-Washington County, stated in a release. “This round of funding will provide necessary investments to bolster infrastructure and enhance recreational and commercial opportunities to ensure SWVA continues to be successful.” 

Virginia’s recommended projects are:

  • Project Intersection, Wise County, $4.75 million
  • Richlands Electric Diversification Project, Tazewell County, $2 million
  • Cumberland Outdoor Recreation, Dickenson and Buchanan counties, $2.75 million
  • Project Wildcat, Wise County, $500,000

The funding for Project Intersection will go to build a second entryway into the industrial park, which has four remaining pads totaling about 70 acres available for development, according to Duane Miller, executive director for the LENOWISCO Planning District Commission.

The industrial park is owned by the Lonesome Pine Regional Industrial Facilities Authority, or LPRIFA, which was created through legislation in 2019, and includes representatives from the counties of Dickenson, Lee, Scott and Wise and the City of Norton. Project Intersection is certified as a Tier 5 site, the highest level in the Virginia Economic Development Partnership’s Virginia Business Ready Sites Program tier system.

AMLER has previously provided more than $12 million to develop the industrial park, according to Tarah Kesterson, a spokesperson for the Virginia Department of Energy. 

EarthLink, the Atlanta-based internet service provider owned by Trive Capital, celebrated the opening of a 30,000-square-foot facility at Project Intersection earlier this month.

“It’s going to be a premiere site,” Will Payne, managing partner of Coalfield Strategies, an economic development consulting firm focused on Southwest Virginia, said of Project Intersection. 

Officials in the town of Richlands, which has provided electricity to businesses and citizens since 1922, requested AMLER funding after facing rate increases, according to a Aug. 15 news release from the Virginia Department of Energy. The money will go toward the construction of a natural gas-fired turbine and generator, a micro power plant capable of generating 5 megawatts of electricity — enough to serve the town’s 2,500 utility customers. 

The Cumberland Outdoor Recreation project is the purchase by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources of “an easement of 12,900 acres on Nature Conservancy property in Buchanan and Dickenson counties,” according to the Virginia Department of Energy. The land will be used for recreation, including a new ATV trail and road improvements.

The funding for Project Wildcat will pay for a retaining wall around an abandoned mine site in Pound, according to Kesterson.

Virginia began receiving federal grant dollars for the AMLER program in 2017 and has recommended nearly 50 projects since then, including five projects announced in January. Six states and three tribes receive the federal funding. 

Last week, the Appalachian Community Capital community development financial institution announced it had received a $500 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to start the Green Bank for Rural America, which plans to finance $1.6 billion in energy projects in the Appalachian region and other rural areas across the country.

New CFO tapped for Maola Local Dairies

Chad Dubbe started work as the chief financial officer of Herndon-based Maola Local Dairies on Aug. 13, according to an announcement by the company, which is owned by the farmers of Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association.

Previously, Dubbe spent 15 years at Leprino Foods, a Colorado manufacturer of mozzarella, lactose and whey protein. Since 2020, Dubbe had served as vice president of finance of the cheese global business unit.

Dubbe has a degree in finance from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, according to his LinkedIn page.

At Maola, Dubbe will spearhead financial and corporate administration, business planning and budgeting initiatives and will oversee finance, accounting, payroll, risk management and IT departments. 

 “His proven track record in financial management within the dairy industry aligns perfectly with our commitment to delivering the highest quality local dairy products to our customers while returning profits to our farmers,” Jay Bryant, Maola’s CEO, said in a statement. 

Jon Cowell, the former CFO, will transition to CEO in January, replacing Bryant, who has worked at the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association for 37 years, 22 of those as CEO. 

The Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association purchased Maola in 2003.

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 Educational Foundation had about $1 million in assets under management and operated out of a cubicle, according to a news release. Today, the foundation boasts $34 million in assets under management. A grants office founded under Sandel’s leadership in 2002 has secured about $48 million in state, federal, corporate and foundation grants.

Founded in 2008, VWCC’s Community College Access Program, known as CCAP, has provided about $11.8 million in tuition assistance. A public-private partnership, CCAP covers the cost of two years of tuition at VWCC for students who do not receive sufficient financial aid.

Fitting Sandel’s ethos to center all efforts on students, the foundation has never raised money for a capital project. Instead, all naming gifts are directed to student assistance. 

In 2017, the City of Roanoke received a state grant to launch the Regional Accelerator and Mentoring Program, or RAMP, an accelerator for tech startups. Sandel championed the effort, support that included lending staff members from the VWCC Educational Foundation to run RAMP’s operations. To date, the accelerator has worked with more than 50 companies that created about 800 jobs, according to its website. 

“At a critical time in RAMP’s early development, it needed a financial sponsor to become operational,” W. Heywood Fralin, chair of Retirement Unlimited, co-trustee of the Horace G. Fralin Charitable Trust and a board member of the foundation, said in a statement. “Bobby Sandel and Virginia Western stepped up to fill that need, and today, the RAMP accelerator thrives. Bobby is a visionary, and without him this region’s economy would not be where it is today.”

Edwin C. “Ed” Hall, founder of Hall Associates, the Roanoke-based commercial and industrial real estate firm, said that the first time he met Sandel, he could tell “things were going to be different at Virginia Western.” 

“His question was, ‘Can I come and speak to the Chamber board? I need to know what the business community needs instead of us telling you what you need,’” recalled Hall, who went on to serve as a president of the VWCC Educational Foundation and chair of the school’s Scholarship and Foundation Grants Committee. 

A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Sandel earned an undergraduate degree from The Citadel, a master’s degree from South Carolina State University and a doctorate from the University of South Carolina. 

Before becoming VWCC’s fourth president, Sandel worked for more than two decades in the South Carolina technical college system and spent more than nine years as president at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap. 

VWCC boasts an enrollment of more than 8,500 students taking credit courses and more than 1,200 enrollments in workforce and continuing education courses. The school has nearly 80 full-time faculty members and more than 150 full-time staff members. VWCC offers more than 100 programs, including nine health profession programs — the third largest among the state’s 23 community colleges, according to Monday’s news release.

Details about the search for VWCC’s next president will be released later.

Battery-powered tools are wave of future at Stihl

Stihl Inc., the U.S. affiliate of the global Stihl Group, has invested more than $60 million on battery manufacturing at its Virginia Beach facility since 2018, according to Stuart Morrison, the company’s vice president of assembly. 

Battery-powered tools  — like pruners, trimmers and blowers — are expected to see the fastest growth of products in the outdoor power equipment market between 2024 and 2030, according to a forecast by Grand View Research, a California market research firm. By the end of fiscal year 2028, the big box store Home Depot expects 85% of U.S. and Canada’s sales in outdoor power equipment will run on rechargeable battery technology. 

The reason for the popularity of battery-powered tools is straightforward, according to Morrison. They make less noise. You don’t have to fool with filling them with gasoline, a smelly and potentially hazardous prospect. Because they’re lighter than gas-powered tools, battery-fueled leaf blowers and trimmers give more people the ability to attack yard projects.

“It’s a much easier, cleaner system,” Morrison said. 

In 2017, Stihl Inc. had ten employees at the company’s Virginia Beach facility assembling one battery-powered product: the Stihl BGA 56 Battery Blower. As of early 2024, about 100 employees at Stihl Inc. manufacture battery-powered products.

“Very modest at first. Started out with one line …  and then it basically morphed from there into not only products, but also battery packs,” Morrison said. “Now it’s got momentum.”

Currently, Stihl produces more than 80 battery-operated tools, according to an August news release. Almost one in four products sold by the company now runs on batteries, and more than 30 new battery-operated products are scheduled to hit the market in the next two years. 

In 2023, products that run on batteries accounted for 16% of all units produced at Stihl Inc. That same year, the company spent about $14 million to convert 84,000 square feet of warehouse space at its Virginia Beach operation to battery tool manufacturing. By the end of 2023, battery unit production capacity at the Virginia Beach facility increased by more than 150% year-over-year. 

By 2027, Stihl, which sells its products in the United States through a network of more than 10,000 authorized dealers, aims to increase the share of sales of battery-operated products to at least 35% and has a goal of 80% by 2035.

Still, it’s too early, according to Morrison, to predict a time when all of the company’s outdoor power equipment will be battery-powered. People who use outdoor power equipment professionally often run their tools for up to eight hours a day, and battery-powered tools wouldn’t be practical for that length of use now. 

“It depends on technology,” he said. “If you look at the technology today, gasoline is still going to be there for some time.” 

Stihl Inc. arrived in Virginia Beach in 1974 when the company rented a 20,000-square-foot warehouse on Thurston Avenue. In 1976, the company broke ground on Viking Drive, where it currently boasts more than 1.5 million square feet of manufacturing and administrative space on 150 acres. “It’s expanded to a point where … we’re building more in a day than we were building an entire year,” Morrison said. 

The company employs about 2,700 employees in Virginia Beach. While the labor market is tight everywhere, Morrison said, the company hasn’t struggled to find workers. They’ve been particularly lucky with recruiting people leaving military service. 

“For our assembly perspective, you’re looking for dependable people [who are] on time, [and who] you can trust. That’s one thing that you’ve got in abundance, with people coming out of the military, so it’s a really good fit,” Morrison said.

In 2026, the Stihl Group will celebrate its 100th birthday, and Stihl Inc. will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its facility on Viking Drive. “During that time… what we commit to hasn’t changed,” Morrison said. 

Stihl success, Morrison said, can be boiled down to valuing its employees, independent dealers and customers. “All those things remain intact.” 

Dominion Energy secures new offshore wind lease for $17.7M

A Dominion Energy subsidiary won provisional rights to a 176,505-acre lease area off Virginia Beach’s coast, adjacent to the section of the ocean where the $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is being constructed, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday.

Virginia Electric and Power Co. bid $17.65 million, or approximately $100 per acre, for the lease area about 35 nautical miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The Fortune 500 utility’s winning bid gives Dominion the option to construct more wind turbines, beyond the 176-turbine CVOW wind farm, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2026 and produce up to 2.6 gigawatts of electricity, powering 660,000 customers’ homes and businesses.

The area leased by Dominion could support between 2.1 gigawatts and 4.0 gigawatts of offshore wind energy generation, according to a news release from the company.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which governs leasing of ocean property, auctioned off two East Coast wind leases Wednesday. The other lease, 101,443 acres off Delaware Bay, was provisionally won by Equinor Wind US, which bid $75 million. Six companies participated in the auction, according to a federal news release. The leases don’t authorize construction or operation of an offshore wind facility, but they provide the right to submit a project plan for BOEM’s review. 

This was the fifth offshore wind lease sale held during the Biden-Harris administration, which has set a goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030. Wednesday’s sale resulted in more than $23 million bidding credits, $11 million of which will go toward workforce training and domestic supply chain, and $11 million for compensatory funding for affected fisheries.

“Offshore wind is critical to our all-of-the-above approach to meet the unprecedented growth of our customer electric demand over the next decade,” Robert M. Blue, chair, president and CEO of Dominion Energy, said in a statement. “Winning this lease area gives us another low-cost option to meet that growing demand.”

Wednesday’s news came after Dominion’s announcement in July that it plans to acquire a 40,000-acre offshore wind lease off North Carolina’s Outer Banks for $160 million from Avangrid, a Connecticut-based sustainable energy company, with the deal expected to close in the fourth quarter of the year. That property will be called CVOW-South and, if fully built out, is expected to generate 800 megawatts of electricity, enough capacity to serve 200,000 homes and businesses. Dominion said last month that it does not yet have detailed cost or timeline estimates for the project.

On Monday, Dominion Energy announced workers had completed the foundation for the 50th monopile for the CVOW project. Monopiles are the foundation posts of the 176 turbines being erected.

Dominion Energy expects to hit its target of setting between 70 and 100 monopiles into the sea floor by the end of October, and have the wind farm operational by the end of 2026. Dominion will take a break from installing the wind turbines between Nov. 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025, due to federal protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales. 

Dominion announced in February that it plans to sell a $3 billion, 50% stake in CVOW this year to investment firm Stonepeak, although Dominion will retain control of construction and operations of the wind farm. The deal is expected to close at the end of the year.

In April, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced a new five-year offshore wind leasing schedule, which includes up to 12 potential offshore wind lease sales through 2028.

265 Va. companies make 2024 Inc. 5000 list

This year, 265 Virginia companies made the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies, released Tuesday by Inc. magazine.

Ranking at No. 53 overall, Ashburn IT services firm Blu Omega, a woman-owned small business founded in 2020, was the highest-ranking Virginia company on the list. Blu Omega’s clients include federal agencies as well as small and medium-size businesses. This was the first year Blu Omega made the list. 

Two other Virginia companies ranked among the top 100 companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list: Fortreum, a Lansdowne firm providing cybersecurity and cloud assessment services, ranked No. 78; and Servos, a Richmond technology consulting company, ranked No. 99. This was the first year on the list for both companies. 

Last year, 275 Virginia companies made the list and Leesburg’s Goldschmitt and Associates, an information technology company, was Virginia’s top-ranked company, coming in at No. 34. Three other Virginia companies ranked within the top 100 in 2023. 

Virginia companies on the 2024 list had a median three-year growth rate of 194% and added a total of 32,868 jobs. Of the Virginia companies that made the list, 186 are repeat winners. 

North Carolina had 126 companies on the list, and Maryland had 116.

To apply to make the list, companies had to be privately held, for profit and not a subsidiary or division of another company. They also had to generate a minimum of $100,000 in revenue in 2020 and a minimum of $2 million in 2023. 

Companies from every state and Puerto Rico made the 2024 Inc. 5000. They range in size from one employee up to 262,079 employees and had made from about $2 million revenue in 2023 to $15.5 billion. Reston’s Carahsoft Technology made that whopping sum. The company, which provides IT services, ranked No. 4,650 on the list. It’s the 17th time Carahsoft has made the Inc. 5000. 

Ranked by three-year average growth, these are the top 25 Virginia companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list:

53) Blu Omega, 5,218%, IT services, Ashburn

78) Fortreum, 3,831%, IT services, Lansdowne

99) Servos, 3,249%, IT services, Richmond

119) Cynet Health, 2,848%, human resources, Sterling

123) National Consulting Partners, 2,797%, government services, Woodbridge

138) Black Canyon Consulting, 2,479%, IT services, Fairfax

145) KlariVis, 2,395%, software, Roanoke

202) Melone Hatley, 1,998%, legal, Virginia Beach

221) Agile Rebuilt, 1,825%, construction, Round Hill

232) Bespoke Technology, 1,765%, business products and services, Aldie

240) BarTrack, 1,704%, food and beverage, Ashburn

245) Piedmont Global Language Solutions, 1,667%, business products and services, Arlington

246) ThinkTek, 1,656%, government services, Fairfax

288) Andworx, 1,490%, software, Falls Church

294) Aalis Management Consulting, 1,439%, government services, Woodbridge

381) DNA Logistix Management, 1,156%, logistics and transportation, Ashburn

495) Zen Strategics, 892%, government services, Vienna

536) Summit Human Capital, 829%, business products and services, Richmond

589) OneZero Solutions, 771%, government services, Alexandria

591) Business GPS, 765%, business products and services, Warrenton

600) Solvere Technical Group, 754%, business products and services, Virginia Beach

607) Top Line Growth Partners, 749%, business products and services, Richmond

615) MovementX, 741%, health services, Alexandria

674) Integrated Management Strategies, 699%, business products and services, Vienna

680) Dedrone, 695%, security, Sterling

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. The financial news network weighted infrastructure heavily this year in its rankings and rated the state third in the nation for infrastructure, saying that Virginia is a good spot for “companies that want to build fast.” 

“Before we took office, Virginia was significantly behind our competitor states,” Youngkin said in a statement Thursday. “We must continue the concerted effort we’ve made to invest in sites over the course of my administration.” 

Localities can apply for matching grants from the Virginia Business Ready Sites Program to assist with the initial assessments of sites and to develop project-ready sites. The program is administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. In January, 21 projects received $90 million in grants for site preparation. 

The City of Chesapeake got the largest grant of those announced Thursday: a $35 million award for its Coastal Virginia Megasite, which encompasses more than 4,000 acres near the Virginia and North Carolina lines. 

The site is currently designated Tier 3 by the state, meaning it is zoned for industrial or commercial development and that due diligence has been completed on the property, according to Steven Wright, Chesapeake’s director of economic development for Chesapeake. Wright says the $35 million will help the site move toward a Tier 4 designation, meaning all infrastructure is within a year of being in place and that all permitting issues have been identified. Tier 5 is the highest designation, meaning land is “shovel-ready.” 

“So that’s a pretty heavy lift,” Wright said. “This $35 million is really going to help us do that and expedite that process.”

The City of Roanoke received a $7.5 million grant that will be combined with a $2.5 million match of city funds to develop its 82-acre “Tract 8” property that is located near Blue Hills Drive. It’s one of the last developable properties in the city for manufacturing.

Currently, the property is designated Tier 3, according to Alicia Cundiff, an economic development specialist for the city. 

“This funding will help it get all the way up to a Tier 5, which is great, because once it’s a Tier 5, it’s deemed shovel-ready, and we can start showing it to prospects,” she said. 

In the project’s first phase, design and permitting work will be completed. The second phase will be construction. “So clearing the land and grading the land and finishing the access road,” Cundiff noted.

Other Virginia Business Ready Sites Program development grants announced Thursday included:

  • Chesterfield County received $13 million for Upper Magnolia Green
  • Prince George County received $10 million for Crosspointe Logistics Centre
  • The City of Staunton received $9 million for Staunton Crossing
  • The City of Danville received $9 million for the Coleman Site
  • Greensville County received $8.5 million for the Mid-Atlantic Advanced Manufacturing Center
  • Pittsylvania County received $6 million for the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill
  • Franklin County received $5.5 million for the Summit View Business Park
  • Wythe County received about $5.1 million for lot 10 of Progress Park
  • Rockingham County received $4.5 million for Innovation Village at Rockingham
  • The City of Suffolk received $3.5 million for the Port 460 Logistics Center
  • The City of Radford received $3.5 million for the VCI Property
  • Sussex County received $1.5 million for Sussex Green Enterprise Park
  • Bedford County received $1.5 million for the New London Business and Technology Park
  • Brunswick County received $1 million for Stonewall