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Workers install a jet bridge at the new concourse under construction at Reagan National Airport in Arlington.
Oct 27, 2020

Reagan National’s $660M expansion nearly ready for takeoff

The journey is nearing its end at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which started work in 2017 on a new concourse and two additional security checkpoints. Known collectively as “Project Journey,” the nearly $660 million expansion is expected to be finished by the third quarter of 2021. Overseen by the Metropolitan W[...]

Dylan Locke and Heather Krantz, co-owners of Floyd Country Store
Oct 27, 2020

Amid pandemic, Floyd holds on to musical roots

The town of Floyd has long been known for its musical offerings, particularly Friday night jamborees at the Floyd Country Store and the annual world folk music-focused FloydFest. So, what happens when public events are called off by the coronavirus pandemic? Dylan Locke, co-owner of the Floyd Country Store, has hosted online str[...]

Bernie Niemeier. Photo by Caroline Martin
Oct 27, 2020

Walking around

Back in 1982, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman Jr. co-authored a business book titled, “In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies.” Among many topics popularized by this bestseller was a concept called “management by walking around.” This wasn’t an entirely new idea. It was practiced in the 197[...]

Jonathan Boreyko and Brook Kennedy are developing a fog harp, a device to harvest water from fog.
Oct 27, 2020

Virginia Tech’s proof-of-concept grants

It’s about gaps. Gaps between the uncertainties that exist and the uncertainties investors are willing to accept. Gaps between a working prototype and a mass-produced model. Gaps between what researchers produce and what the market wants to buy. Virginia tech’s proof-of-concept (POC) grants aim to help university researchers[...]

Oct 27, 2020

2020 Virginia CFO Awards

Paul Annunziata Chartway Federal Credit UnionDoris Batiste Jefferson Home Builders Inc. / Culpeper Wood Preservers / JHB Rental Properties and Storage Mark Baumgartner Pender & Coward PC Jay Bernas Hampton Roads Sanitation District Denise Bowles Olde Towne Medical & Dental Center Julie Brown Farmington Country Club William L. “Lew” Bryant J. E. Liesfeld Contractor Inc. […]

Oct 27, 2020

November 2020 – For The Record

Eastern Virginia The offshore wind industry could create up to 5,200 jobs in Virginia (with a majority in Hampton Roads), generating an estimated $740 million in total economic activity during the next several years, according to an economic impact analysis released in late September by the Hampton Roads Alliance. Dominion Energy Inc. recently completed installation […]

Buena Vista buildings bought by Roanoke developer Ed Walker went to auction in late October.
Oct 27, 2020

Downtown Buena Vista buildings go to auction

Updated Oct. 29 Some things just don’t work out as planned, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end. Roanoke developer Ed Walker purchased 16 properties in downtown Buena Vista for $1.3 million during 2017 and 2018, with a plan to revitalize the small city nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains just southeast of Lexington. Walker [...]

Oct 27, 2020

The Results of the Virginia Society of CPAs’ 2021 Virginia Economic Expectations Survey

  To download the results as a PDF click here   Related Articles We asked five certified public accountants for their take on the state of their regions. This is what they had to say. Answers have been edited for length and clarity. The Results of the Virginia Society of CPAs’ 2021 Virginia Economic Expectations [&he[...]

Beth Doughty, executive director of the Roanoke Regional Partnership, will retire in December after more than two decade
Oct 27, 2020

Stars in their eyes

When 19th-century movers and shakers picked sleepy Roanoke as the site of the crossroads linking the Shenandoah Valley and Norfolk & Western railroads, the town grew with such force and speed that it earned the now-obscure nickname “Magic City.” Over the decades that followed, thousands of Roanokers toiled for the N&[...]

Danville suffered from the closure of textiles mills in the early 2000s, says the city’s economic development director, Corrie Teague Bobe. Now Danville voters are deciding whether a $400 million casino and resort should be built on the former Dan River Mills industrial site in the Schoolfield area.
Oct 25, 2020

Viva Virginia

Danville once stood tall as a driver of Virginia’s economy, an epicenter both for textile production at Dan River Mills and for tobacco when it was still the commonwealth’s golden leaf. Both industries came crashing down in the 2000s. A rising tide of public sentiment led to tobacco’s decline, and the federal quota system [...]

Lexington Vice Mayor Marylin Alexander visits the newly renamed Oak Grove Cemetery.
Sep 28, 2020

Lexington sheds some Confederate monikers

Lexington memorializes Confederate Gens. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee so much, Lee’s final resting place in the city was described as “a kind of Confederate Graceland” in a 2009 Washington Post travel story. Lexington’s image changed some this summer, however. While Virginia Military Institut[...]

Photo by Elizabeth Cooper
Sep 28, 2020

Change in the air

After almost a decade of planning, Dominion Energy Inc. will begin harnessing offshore wind power this fall as two massive test turbines go into operation off the coast of Virginia Beach. Standing about 600 feet tall, the 12-megawatt turbines are the cornerstone of Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) pilot project[...]

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