CBRE Group Inc. has signed a lease for 24,108 square feet at The Boro tower in Tysons, the firm announced June 1.
In the first quarter of 2023, CBRE will move its Northern Virginia office from International Drive in Tysons to occupy the entire 11th floor of The Boro, at 8350 Broad St.
The new office will have the company’s “future of work” standards, including a wider variety of collaborative spaces designed to support hybrid working, according to a release from CBRE. There is no assigned seating.
The Boro is 20 stories tall and LEED Gold certified.
CBRE’s Rob Faktorow, Meredith LaPier and Meghan Walters represented CBRE in the lease negotiations, and CBRE’s Terry Reiley represented the building’s landlord and ownership, The Meridian Group and Rockefeller Group.
Construction started this week on a $23 million project that will create 86 units of affordable housing in eastern Henrico County, Virginia Supportive Housing announced.
Formerly an assisted living facility, Cool Lanes Commons, on the border of Richmond and Henrico, will create 80 one-bedroom apartments and six studio apartments for homeless and low-income people in the Richmond region, according to a news release. Each unit will be more than 500 square feet, and 13 of them will be fully accessible. VSH will offer services on-site to residents. Some of the units will be for individuals who have experienced long or repeated episodes of homelessness and who have a disability that affects their housing stability, according to the organization. The remainder will be for individuals with incomes that are 50% or less of the area’s median income.
The repurposed 100,000-square-foot property will also have office space for VSH and community partners.
“Cool Lane Commons is our first supportive apartment building in Henrico County, an important step in expanding our services to those experiencing homelessness in Henrico. The issues of housing affordability and access affect our city and county communities collectively. Cool Lane Commons is an important regional collaboration in addressing them,” VSH Board Chair Jason Snook said Wednesday at the facility’s groundbreaking.
The site was first identified as a project for VSH in March 2018. The former Seven Hills Health Care Center has been vacant since 2008.
Development costs will be funded by local, state, federal and private funding. Construction will be completed in fall 2023.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has hired Diane E. Branch as vice president of real estate, the foundation announced Friday.
Branch will manage a portfolio of nearly 400 parcels, which is more than 1,900 acres of developed and undeveloped land in the city of Williamsburg and James City and York counties. She begins her new role June 6.
Before coming to the foundation, Branch had been awarded a grant sponsored by Columbia University to “broaden and deepen the understanding of racial inequities in real estate that impact the Black community,” according to a news release. She has also been a senior vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. (JLL), responsible for leasing transactions for Fortune 500 clients. She was an associate vice president at Howard University and led the campus master plan process and developed the strategic plan for the university’s first real estate office. Before joining Howard, she was the District of Columbia’s project manager for the Gallery Place and Mandarin Oriental Hotel Project TIF bonds.
“Under Diane Branch’s leadership, we will continue to work closely with the city, our partners and the Greater Williamsburg community to think beyond our traditional infrastructure to reimagine Williamsburg’s shared spaces and maintain the traditions and history that shape our community,” Colonial Williamsburg Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Kevin Patrick said in a statement.
AeroFarms has sold its 138,670-square-foot property in Cane Creek Centre to MDH Partners and leased it back for 20 years, the companies announced June 1.
MDH Partners bought the property at 1526 Cane Creek Parkway for $19.1 million and leased it back to AeroFarms. The industrial park where AeroFarms is located is jointly owned by Danville and Pittsylvania County.
The indoor agriculture company recently opened its Southern Virginia facility and has been growing short-stemmed leafy greens, herbs and microgreens and will process them for shipping to retail outlets and restaurants within 250 to 300 miles.
With this purchase, MDH Partners has grown its footprint to more than 650,000 square feet of property in Virginia and has acquired more than 6 million square feet of property throughout the U.S. since last January, according to the company.
MDH also owns a 237,861-square-foot property in Ashland and a 284,580-square-foot property in Suffolk.
As part of the $200 million redevelopment of Virginia Beach’s Pembroke Mall, Landmark Development Hotel Group will partner with Pembroke Square Associates LLC to bring a Tempo/Homewood Suites by Hilton hotel to the project.
The 14-story hotel will be one of the first Tempo by Hilton hotels, which feature “wellness rooms” with personal workout equipment and “power down suites” with other amenities. The hotel will have a yet-to-be-announced national restaurant, rooftop tapas restaurant and lounge and a parking garage. It will also have a fitness center, outdoor patio, restaurant and lounge and flexible indoor-outdoor meeting areas.
It will also be the first dual-brand hotel in Virginia Beach, the partners say.
The hotel will be on the site of the former SunTrust bank building on Virginia Beach Boulevard, across the street from Town Center. Demolition is set to begin in winter, and the hotel is expected to open in spring 2025. New York-based ODA Architects is the project architect, and Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. will provide civil engineering.
Last month, Pembroke Square Associates and Castle Development announced plans for a 12-story apartment complex that will be part of the redevelopment. Plans for the former mall also include a seven-story senior living community.
Future Cities, the development firm behind the anticipated GreenCity development in Henrico County, has plans to renovate a historic substation in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond and turn it into a mixed-use development with a food hall, coworking space and micro retail.
Carver Station, which will be located near Clay and Harrison streets, will span about 30,000 square feet. It’s near Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Campus and a block from the Siegel Center. The historic substation was originally built by the Virginia Railway and Power Company in 1910 and was decommissioned by Dominion Energy Inc. in 2018.
Michael Hallmark, one of the principals of Future Cities and a resident of the Carver neighborhood, said Jerome Legions, president of the Carver Area Civic League, approached the firm about redevelopment ideas. He gave the group ideas and his firm ended up buying the property and taking on the redevelopment as a project for Future Cities, which was based in Los Angeles but relocated when Hallmark moved to Virginia to join the failed Navy Hill redevelopment in downtown Richmond.
However, Hallmark and collaborator Susan Eastridge of Fairfax-based Concord Eastridge Inc. have found local success since then with the $2.3 billion GreenCity development and a second Richmond project to replace the city’s Public Safety Building with a $325 million VCU Health System medical office tower and multi-use project on 10th Street. Plans for a 20-story tower, though, have been downsized, according to recent news reports.
As for the Carver project, Hallmark said in an interview with Virginia Business that the group did not want the property to be occupied with more housing and came up with a more creative solution. He, along with fellow Future Cities co-founder Sean Duncan and project manager Jordan Greene, will lead the project.
“This became more and more interesting, like an antique car you find at a flea market,” Hallmark said.
One innovation is the use of “architecturally fun” shipping containers in Carver Station’s design for the coworking space, Hallmark said. They’re strong and sturdy and are the right proportions for an office pod, he noted.
A rendering of space in Carver Station. Courtesy Future Cities.
The food hall will be advantageous to restaurants that have struggled in the pandemic, he said, and this would allow some chefs to come back without investing in their own brick and mortar locations. They haven’t decided on the restaurants yet — instead, they want to “figure out the experience first,” then determine the types of food and “understand what the universe of Richmond area food is and what the food call community is,” and then curate after that. The food and beverage lounge will be tucked under the room’s existing mezzanine.
One of the property’s unique features is an original 30,000-pound gantry crane that was used to swap out generators and rail car motors as part of Richmond’s 19th- and early 20th-century street car program, according to Future Cities. Where this crane is located will be known as “the crane room” and become a “community living room” used as a lounge for coworking by day and a casual small-plate restaurant with a wine and spirits lounge at night.
Carver Station’s food hall. Rendering provided by Future Cities.
Project architects are Danny MacNelly and Jason Dufilho of Richmond-based ARCHITECTUREFIRM, and Mark Kronenthal of Roth Jackson will represent the developer to obtain a special-use permit from the city of Richmond, the next step in the process. Newport News-based W.M. Jordan Co. will be the general contractor.
Richmond-based Rocket Pop will work with Future Cities to market the space to Richmond businesses.
Construction is set to begin early next year and be completed in 2024.
In a pair of announcements Wednesday, Pittsylvania County officials celebrated an expected total investment of $7 million and more than 40 jobs by two businesses.
A paper manufacturer’s Pittsylvania County location is expanding and a Danville medical equipment company is moving to the county, state and county officials announced Wednesday.
Netherlands-based paper honeycomb producer Axxor is investing $3.5 million in expanding its capacity in Pittsylvania, creating 21 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced. Danville-based Commonwealth Home Health Care Inc. will invest $3.5 million in a Blairs facility and create 26 jobs, the county and the company announced.
Paper honeycomb developer and producer Axxor will expand its manufacturing capacity in Ringgold East Industrial Park, expected to create 21 jobs. The company will purchase new machinery through a partnership with a Ford Bronco platform supplier to Ford Motor Co.
“Axxor took a chance on Virginia in 2011 as an entry point into the North American market, and its continued growth in Pittsylvania County is a great success story,” Youngkin said in a statement. “The company offers an innovative, sustainable product that continues to gain momentum across various industries, and we expect its trajectory to continue. We are proud to have Axxor on the commonwealth’s corporate roster and look forward to a continued partnership.”
Netherlands businessman Weiger Wigersma founded Axxor in 1993, and the company has operated in Ringgold since 2012, through a partnership with co-owner Robert Boerrigter. Paper honeycomb helps manufacturers reduce weight and shipping costs and can be used in a range of products, from furniture and packing to automotive components.
“When selecting the location for its production facility in North America in 2011, Axxor believed the support offered by the state and local leadership to be the strongest in the region,” Boerrigter said in a statement. “Since beginning production in 2012, the state and local communities have delivered on those promises made in 2011 and now again supported our next phase with a competitive package. For this reason, continuing its expansion in Ringgold was a logical choice.”
For the Axxor project, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Pittsylvania County and the Southern Virginia Regional Alliance to secure the project, for which Virginia competed with Michigan. The VEDP will support Axxor through the Virginia Jobs Investment Program, which provides consultative services and funding to support employee recruitment and training to companies creating jobs. The company is eligible to receive benefits from the Virginia Enterprise Zone Program, administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development.
Commonwealth Home Health Care Inc., currently headquartered in Danville, will move operations of its three companies — Commonwealth Home Health Care, Commonwealth Document Management and Fire Safe — to a 100,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Pittsylvania. The move will take place over the next two years, and the companies will leave the existing retail and corporate office in Danville.
The new facility will be used for warehousing operations, training, equipment and additional personnel. It will also have a conference teaching area to offer programs to companies that may not have space of their own.
The company has grown from three employees to more than 200 over the past 40 years. It has offices in Danville, Salem, Martinsville and South Boston, and its footprint stretches from Washington, D.C., to Gainesville, Florida.
Commonwealth Home Health Care is a medical equipment company that provides home oxygen, safety and rehabilitation products. Commonwealth Document Management is a full-service document management company founded in 2011 that provides shredding, record storage, hard drive destruction and scanning services. Fire Safe provides live emergency and non-emergency safety training and compliance for employees, plus fire equipment, maintenance, cleaning and sales for businesses.
“We are excited for the expansion of the commonwealth companies operations to the Blairs community,” Chief Operating Officer Brian Wilson said in a statement. “By adding this location to our organization, we will be able to continue our growth to include much needed space, new equipment and additional personnel.”
The Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, announced Tuesday that Hampton Roads philanthropist Joan Brock has donated $34 million, including 40 works of art and two position endowments. The gift will also support the expansion of the Perry Glass Studio.
Joan Brock, a longstanding supporter of the Chrysler Museum, was the first woman to preside over the Chrysler Museum Board and served as a museum docent. Her late husband, Macon Brock, chaired the museum’s 2014 capital campaign and the couple’s support funded the museum’s 2014 expansion. Macon Brock cofounded Dollar Tree Inc., where Joan also worked for decades.
The artworks from the Macon and Joan Brock collection span nearly 100 years of American art, from just after the Civil War to the mid-20th century, according to the Chrysler Museum.
“The Brock Collection is one of the most significant private collections of American art assembled in the 21st century,” Corey Piper, the Brock curator of American art, said in a statement. “Major paintings and works on paper by the most important artists of the late-19th and early-20th centuries chart a broad history of American art of the period and will allow the Chrysler to tell new and more compelling stories of our nation’s artistic history.”
The gift includes 29 paintings by artists such as John Singer Sargent, John La Farge, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, George Benjamin Luks, George Bellows, Childe Hassam, Marsden Hartley, Sally Michel and William McGregor Paxton. Among the 10 works on paper are two works by William Merritt Chase, two by Winslow Homer and a watercolor by Charles Ephraim Burchfield. A glass sculpture by Debora Moore is also included.
“In addition to their historical importance, the works in the Brock collection stand as superlative examples of exceptional quality, a testament to Macon and Joan’s astute eyes. While their love of American painting guided their pursuits, they also demonstrated great foresight in the construction of a collection for the public’s benefit. The gift of the collection will elevate the stature of the Chrysler’s American art holdings and programs, making it a national leader in the exhibition, study, and appreciation of American art,” Piper said.
John Singer Sargent’s Olives at Corfu is one of 29 paintings from the Macon and Joan Brock collection donated to the Chrysler Museum of Art in May 2022. Image courtesy Chrysler Museum
The collection adds 15 artists not previously represented in the museum and fills in key gaps in the museum’s collection, the museum noted in a news release. Nineteenth-century works from the Hudson River School, American Impressionism and the Aesthetic movement, as well as 20th-century American Modernism pieces, are in the collection.
A selection will be on view in a winter 2023-2024 exhibition at the museum. The presentation will also have a publication of a comprehensive catalog of the collection, with essays written by the museum’s curators and scholars of American art.
“I could not be happier to make this gift to the Chrysler, and to the Hampton Roads region that has been my home for most of my life,” Joan Brock said in a statement. “I have great esteem for the institution, its leaders and the talented team of professionals who work there. Our collection has brought us true joy and I’m hoping museum visitors will be inspired as we have by these great artists.”
In addition to the works of art, Joan Brock has made a gift to endow the director’s position, currently held by Erik Neil, the museum’s director since 2014. A second endowment will underwrite a new position that will support the curatorial team’s research and development of exhibitions and presentations of the museum’s permanent collection.
“I am deeply honored by Joan’s extraordinary generosity and her and Macon’s longtime commitment to the Chrysler,” said Neil, the newly named Macon and Joan Brock director. “Their gifts have been transformational for the museum. This is the largest expansion of our American art collection since Walter Chrysler’s gift in 1971. The art and the endowments help us grow and contribute immensely to our institutional strength.”
In addition to the Chrysler Museum, the Brocks have supported many organizations in Virginia, including Longwood University, Old Dominion University, Randolph Macon College, Virginia Wesleyan University, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Sentara Brock Cancer Center and the United Way, among many others.
“It’s incredibly exciting that a collection of this importance will be added to the museum’s collection. We are immensely grateful to the Brocks for their remarkable gifts, which help ensure the museum’s vitality for many years to come,” Chrysler Museum Board Chairman Brother Rutter said in a statement.
In late March, Stanislas Vilgrain drove in a convoy of eight trucks from France to Ukraine for 26 hours through a snowstorm, keeping an ear to the radio for news of Russian attacks, The convoy’s mission: to deliver 400,000 meals to Ukrainians from Vilgrain’s Sterling-based business, Cuisine Solutions.
The French-born chairman of a company that manufactures sous-vide (vacuum-packed) foods, Vilgrain had heard that the Russian invasion had severely impacted Ukraine’s food supply, and he was determined to do what he
could to help.
“This is … good against evil,” he says.
That is what has compelled Vilgrain and other Virginia-based business executives to help the people of Ukraine, either by traveling there in person to assist or by sending financial donations and goods. Over the past few months, corporate aid from businesses in the commonwealth to Ukraine has come in the form of everything from money and food to medical supplies and drones.
A louder voice
Lukasz Dominiak of Smithfield Foods’ Polish division has been coordinating food donations to Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw. Photo courtesy Smithfield Foods inc.
Vilgrain’s company typically supplies food for airlines and the military, so when he saw that the Russians were targeting Ukraine’s food supply, he wanted to make sure people there were not going hungry. He started figuring out how to get food from France, where Cuisine Solutions has a plant. He made contact with high-level Ukrainians through YPO, a worldwide association for chief executives.
Poland’s government has told food companies that it believes Ukraine needs almost 10,000 tons of food daily from abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported in mid-April.
Vilgrain traveled to Ukraine with 15 of his employees, including his chief marketing officer, Thomas Donohoe.
“I felt that … [with] me personally going as a C-level executive, it would mean a bit more” and could encourage executives from other companies to do the same, Donohoe says.
Cuisine Solutions brought 300 tons of food to help the Ukrainians: 400,000 meals of beef, pork, vegetables, chicken, French pastries and bread.
Virginia business leaders like Vilgrain say they have chosen to involve their companies in the philanthropic efforts to aid Ukraine because a corporation can have a bigger impact and a louder voice than any executive acting individually.
Mike Lowder, operations manager for Petersburg-based MST & Associates Inc., says, “Whether it’s logistical relationships or nonprofit relationships or company relationships, we have the ability to work with our customers to further the [aid] pipeline that I don’t think the average person has.” A wholesaler of surplus medical and surgical equipment, MST sent 24 pallets of medical supplies, worth about $230,000, to Ukraine at the end of April.
MST has contracts with about 50 medical facilities around Virginia. The pandemic-
generated increase in production of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gloves, gowns, surgical masks, shoe covers, hair covers and hand sanitizer has ultimately resulted in surpluses. With a lot of extra PPE stored in their warehouses, Lowder made plans to send it to Ukraine, where it was in high demand.
“[Russia’s invasion of] Ukraine is coming at a terrible, terrible time and cost to the people there, but it’s coming at an advantageous time for us,” Lowder says. “Anything we can do to assist over there is what we are trying to do. They have an acute need and we are trying to fill it.”
Also assisting Ukraine with medical supplies has been Mechanicsville-based Fortune 500 health care logistics company Owens & Minor, which donated $500,000 in medical- grade personal protective equipment to support humanitarian relief in Ukraine and other impacted countries in March.
Finding ways to help
Other Virginia-based businesses with a presence in Europe, such as Smithfield Foods Inc., also are stepping up to help the embattled republic.
Lukasz Dominiak, Warsaw-based public relations director for the pork products manufacturer’s Smithfield Polska division in Poland, has been coordinating donations of food to Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw. Smithfield has 1,600 Ukrainian employees who work near the Ukrainian border in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, according to the company, which is helping with relocation and employment.
For example, Dominiak says, his friends have been driving to the border and offering rides for refugees who just crossed.
“There is a special, unique relationship between the two countries on the government level and the people,” Dominiak says of Poland and Ukraine.
Operation Blessing staff member Tony Batchler Jr. entertains young Ukrainian refugees at a church in Poland. Photo courtesy Operation Blessing
Smithfield has provided $2 million in cash and in-kind donations to crisis relief efforts in Ukraine.
As the attack on Ukraine continued, many Smithfield workers and executives wanted to help right away, says Jonathan Toms, Smithfield Foods’ community development manager.
“It wasn’t just these actions we took as a company; it was individual actions our employees took — those are the things I’m so proud of,” he says.
Arlington-based Nestlé USA’s parent company in Switzerland employs 5,800 people in Ukraine and has been helping them by giving advance payment of salaries, enabling employee transfers and supporting hubs in neighboring countries for employees and their families who have fled Ukraine.
Another Virginia-based business is aiding Ukraine by donating drones.
Arlington defense contractor AeroVironment Inc. donated 110 unmanned aircraft systems and training services to defense officials in Ukraine. Originally designed for agricultural use by farmers, the drones are easy to use and can provide aerial intelligence.
“We feel very connected to their fight and we feel very connected to the mission of helping them and we had these Quantix Recon aircraft, and so we asked ourselves [if] could we buy those … at no charge, just to bolster their defense,” recalls Charlie Dean, AeroVironment’s vice president for global business development and sales of unmanned aircraft systems. “It was something that we felt in our hearts we could do. [There was] far too much suffering going on and perhaps our donation could help.”
For some companies, assisting with Ukrainian relief efforts has been even more personal.
Norfolk-based PRA Group Inc., a global debt-buyer with 201 employees in Poland, provided $50,000 to support those employees’ efforts to aid Ukrainian refugees and send supplies to the war-torn nation. When a Canadian employee heard that PRA was helping Ukrainians, she sought the company’s assistance to help a cousin who was trying to flee Ukraine. The operations director of PRA Group Poland picked up the cousin and her 7-year-old child from the border. The two got out in the nick of time — the next day, the cousin’s hometown was bombed.
Operation Blessing, the Virginia Beach-based nonprofit arm of The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc., has been providing food and other supplies to Ukrainian refugees who have been pouring into Poland. Though the nonprofit has helped people in Ukraine and other European countries for years, the war in Ukraine has ramped up their efforts.
“There is so much need and suffering that is taking place among those people. For us, as Operation Blessing, what drives us to be involved is our faith in Jesus Christ,” says Jeff Westling, Operation Blessing’s chief of staff. “We want to serve as his hands and feet.”
Mason Pigue, Operation Blessing’s director of humanitarian relief, is in touch daily with the nonprofit’s relief teams on the ground in Ukraine. During the first 10 to 15 days after the invasion, the relief workers sheltered from the attacks, but they have remained to stay and assist those in need.
“It’s a calling,” he says. “They feel like it’s something God has led them to do.”
Pigue and Westling both have military experience and can relate to the people on the ground.
Westling has a military logistics and engineering background, so his task is to make sure that Operation Blessing is equipping, enabling and empowering their team members around the globe — in this case, in Ukraine and Europe — to make sure they have what they need. Their teams are providing food and water and shelter and even counseling services to the embattled Ukrainians.
‘Keep yourself in the fight’
Businesses large and small across the commonwealth have found ways to help Ukraine.
Herndon data analytics firm HawkEye 360 Inc. and the Arlington-based National Security Space Association have convened a group of space industry companies to assist with fundraising. Space Industry for Ukraine (SIFU), which includes Virginia companies such as Leidos and BlackSky Technology Inc., raised nearly $1 million as of the end of April, with each company donating at least $50,000. SIFU’s funds will finance a number of projects in Ukraine, such as medical treatment, delivery of food supplies and supporting transportation for evacuating civilians.
McLean-based Mars Inc., one of the world’s largest candy and pet food manufacturers, donated $12 million in cash and in-kind donations to provide basic needs for children and families still in Ukraine as well as those who have sought refuge in border countries.
Ashburn-based DXC Technology Co. is making a 200% match for employee donations to Red Cross humanitarian efforts.
McLean-based Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is donating up to 1 million room nights to support Ukrainian refugees and humanitarian efforts in partnership with American Express Co.
Many companies, such as Herndon-based government contractor Peraton Inc., Richmond-based Performance Food Group Co. and others are donating thousands of dollars to Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit World Central Kitchen, which provides meals at a pedestrian border crossing in southern Poland.
Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is matching employee donations up to $50,000 to support the American Red Cross’ humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, which include providing water, medical supplies, housing support and other aid.
Smaller businesses across the common-wealth are helping as well. Several Virginia breweries have joined the “Brew for Ukraine” initiative, which aims to raise money for humanitarian relief and call attention to Ukraine’s plight through beer sales. It’s raised several thousand dollars per day, organizers say.
In late April, the 88-member Rotary Club of Richmond raised $75,000 to support the citizens of Ukraine and global disaster relief organization ShelterBox USA. It is seeking additional individual and corporate donations, with the goal of matching the $75,000.
The push to raise money for Ukraine and send resources and donations has spread far and wide since Vilgrain went overseas to help.
He was encouraged by his trip and is already planning to go back. He’s been talking to anyone who will listen about his trip and Ukrainians’ need for aid. “Everybody here is concerned and it’s extraordinary to see – it’s far away, it’s in Europe,” he says.
He thinks the need to help Ukraine is resonating here because the country is a democratically elected republic that is defending itself after being invaded by a much larger autocratic government.
“It created a big movement in the U.S., in Americans, in Europeans … protecting our values, protecting what we believe in, with a country that actually defends itself. If they were not defending themselves, it would have been over in a day or two, but they defend themselves,” he says.
“I keep sending messages to friends in Ukraine and tell them, ‘Keep yourself in the fight.’ … It’s very good for the morale of the Ukrainians to see that the world is behind them.”
This story has been updated from an earlier version.
Richmond-based outdoor furniture maker McKinnon and Harris has promoted Ken Dail to president, the company announced Tuesday.
Co-founder Will Massie will become CEO and continue to play an active role in new product development and progressing the company’s long-term vision.
Dail has been at McKinnon and Harris for 12 years and most recently served as chief operating officer. He oversaw growth of the company and helped set new standards in outdoor furniture fabrication and design, according to a news release. In his new role, he will lead all day-to-day operations.
Dail has worked in supply chain management and has more than 30 years career experience. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and earned an MBA from the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University.
McKinnon and Harris was founded in 1991 and has showrooms in Richmond, New York City, Los Angeles and London.
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Commonwealth Home Health Care Inc., currently headquartered in Danville, will move operations of its three companies — Commonwealth Home Health Care, Commonwealth Document Management and Fire Safe — to a 100,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Pittsylvania. The move will take place over the next two years, and the companies will leave the existing retail and corporate office in Danville.
