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Scheduled to open in 2025 on George Mason’s Virginia Square campus in Arlington, this distinctive, $168 million building will house Mason’s Institute for Digital InnovAtion and its School of Computing. Rendering courtesy George Mason University
Jul 30, 2021

Tech support

In summer 2025, George Mason University is scheduled to open a distinctive, $168 million, 360,500-square-foot glass-and-steel tower on its Virginia Square campus in Arlington. Inside its walls, the university’s commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship and the creation of a tech-savvy workforce will be on full display. In its[...]

Northern Virginia Family Service CFO Clifford Yee has worked in Richmond, Chicago, Los Angeles and Fairfax County. Photo by Stephen Gosling
Jul 30, 2021

There and back again

Large Nonprofit | Clifford Yee, CFO Northern Virginia Family Service, Oakton First-generation college graduate Clifford Yee’s early career took him from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again in a variety of financial, consulting and management positions. Then, at the age of 40, he had a stroke. It was Mother’s Day [...]

Tysons Partnership President and CEO Sol Glasner says the urban community’s population will continue to increase as the community adds amenities such as the Capital One Hall performing arts center, opening in October. Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Jul 30, 2021

Turning the corner

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, it felt as if the long-running goal of transforming Tysons from a commuter-driven “edge city” into a vibrant, urban, walkable destination “would be so disrupted,” says Victor Hoskins, president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. But the increase in soci[...]

Roanoke’s Blue Ridge Marathon returned in spring 2021. Photo courtesy Roanoke Outside Foundation
Jul 30, 2021

Roanoke region anticipates outdoor events boon

For more than a century, Roanoke has been known as a rail town. But in recent years, the city has endeavored to rebrand itself as a trail town. Since 2008, the Roanoke region has worked to leverage its vast outdoor assets to attract business investment and talent with its high quality of life, as well […]

Frederick County is fighting a lawsuit over supervisors’ rejection of a proposed solar farm on this site in the Gore area. Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Jun 30, 2021

Clouds gathering over big solar farms in Va.?

In recent years, many solar farms have been approved by local governments across the state, but the outlook in some areas isn’t so sunny anymore. In Frederick County, the Board of Supervisors’ rejection of a utility-scale solar project has led to a lawsuit. In April, Hollow Road Solar LLC and property owners National Fruit O[...]

Jun 30, 2021

JULY FOR THE RECORD

Roanoke/New River Valley Appalachian Power in late May issued two requests for proposals to help the company comply with provisions of the Virginia Clean Economy Act. Under the VCEA, Appalachian Power must meet annual interim requirements as it works to achieve 100% carbon-free energy generation in its Virginia service territory by 2050. The utility is […]

Virginia’s senators are asking the FBI to consider a Springfield site to locate a replacement for the agency’s aging D.C. headquarters building. Photo by Stephen Gosling
Jun 30, 2021

G-Men headed for Springfield? Possibly.

After being sidelined during the Trump administration, the plan to build a new FBI headquarters in the Washington, D.C., suburbs appears to be back on track. Earlier this year, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both Democrats, and their Maryland counterparts wrote to President Joe Biden to request that the federal government[...]

Jun 30, 2021

July Out & About

Retired Carlyle Group co-CEO Glenn Youngkin is running as a pro-business candidate, campaigning on jobs, education and public safety. Photos by AP
Jun 30, 2021

Back to the future

The candidates running for governor in November face the convergence of two Virginia political trends. The first is the commonwealth’s tendency to vote for governors of the opposing party from the present White House occupant. Beginning in 1977, Virginia has voted against the party holding the White House in every election exc[...]

AMR PEMCO in Bluefield is considering expanding into advanced battery manufacturing. Photo courtesy AMR PEMCO
Jun 30, 2021

Region hopes for jolt from batteries, electrification

Adam Wells is charged up about a plan to create a “battery and electrification economy” in Southwest Virginia. “This is the most exciting thing that I’m working on,” says Wells, Appalachian Voices’ Norton-based regional director of community and economic development. The environmental nonprofit led the effort that pe[...]

The Virginia Senate held a socially distanced session at the Science Museum of Virginia this year, while the House of Delegates met virtually Photo by Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP.
Jun 30, 2021

Seismic session

With short legislative sessions and state elections looming in the fall, odd-numbered years have developed an often-unfair reputation for being a slack time for the General Assembly. Observers of the Virginia legislature’s 2021 session, however, would hardly have come away with that impression. In the second year of Democratic[...]

Virginia Tech is testing whether Spot, a four-legged robot, can monitor progress at busy construction sites. Photo by Sarah Myers/Virginia Tech
Jun 30, 2021

Va. Tech researchers make Spot go

Spot can’t dance. Well, Spot could, but you’d have to pay extra for that. “Spot out of the box cannot do all those tricks,” says Virginia Tech doctoral student Srijeet Halder. Spot is Boston Robotics’ $74,500 four-legged walking platform, a star of viral dancing videos that also has the ability to navigate stairs, avoi[...]

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