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Top Five stories, June 2022
The top trending major business stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from April 15 to May 14 were led by news of the merger of Roanoke-based Woods Rogers PLC and Norfolk-based Vandeventer Black LLP. 1 | Woods Rogers, Vandeventer Black law firms to merge July 1 Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black will be the state’s fifth-largest firm, with a […]
Boeing will move global HQ to Arlington
The Boeing Co., the world’s third-largest defense contractor, is moving its global headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, the company announced May 5. With more than 141,500 employees worldwide and operations in more than 65 countries, the aerospace and defense company will be the largest defense contractor headquartered in [...]
Gift of a lifetime
For Dr. Todd Stravitz, February was an opportune time to make the largest gift in the history of Virginia Commonwealth University — a $104 million donation to support liver research. The retired medical director of VCU Health’s Hume-Lee Transplant Center, Stravitz is an heir to the Boar’s Head Provisions Co. Inc. fortune. [...]
Albemarle’s industrial age
In Albemarle County, industrial space, not office or retail, “has been the bright spot in commercial real estate” in terms of demand, says Lisa Sturtevant, research leader at Bright MLS Inc. “All of a sudden, there’s been a big rush for industrial space,” she says, but adds, “Good luck in finding it right now.” Albemarle […]
Cycling industry rolls into Roanoke
Roanoke is on a roll with bicycling enthusiasts. Already known as a mountain-biking mecca — earning a rare Silver-Level Ride Center designation from the International Mountain Bicycling Association — Virginia’s Blue Ridge region has broadened its brand by becoming the site of a national bicycling championship this summer a[...]
Counting on change
Royce Burnett remembers how challenging it felt in 1981 as a freshly graduated audit associate starting work at a Big Eight accounting firm in Texas. Of about 250 new employees hired at the time, Burnett, who’s now an associate professor and chair of Old Dominion University’s School of Accountancy, believes he was the only A[...]
JK Moving names president
Sterling-based moving and storage company JK Moving Services announced Friday it promoted David Cox to president. Cox will assume responsibility of day-to-day operations, and founder Chuck Kuhn will remain CEO of the company. “[Cox] is a natural leader, and his industry knowledge, focus on technology and innovation as well as [...]
VCU Massey Center names internship for attorney
Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center has established an internship named for Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Partner Rudene Mercer Haynes, the law firm announced last week. “I am humbled by this honor and pledge to continue my support of the live-saving and life-changing work performed by the brilliant clinic[...]
VCU Medical Center appoints chief nursing officer
VCU Medical Center has named Tina Mammone its new chief nursing officer, the Richmond-based medical campus for Virginia Commonwealth University announced Tuesday. She begins Aug. 7. Mammone joins from Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, where she is currently serving in the same role. There, she is credite[...]
YHB to acquire Md. accounting firm
Winchester-based accounting and consulting firm Yount, Hyde and Barbour (YHB) will acquire Maryland-based firm Glass Jacobson PA on July 1. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed in Wednesday’s announcement. “We are excited to welcome the Glass Jacobson team to the YHB family,” YHB Managing Partner Scott M[...]
OrthoVirginia names new CEO
OrthoVirginia, the commonwealth’s largest provider of orthopedic medicine, has a new CEO. Dr. David S. Jevsevar became the practice’s top executive on May 16. Jevsevar was most recently chair and regional vice president of orthopedics at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire. He has more than 30 years of experience in cl[...]
Breeden breaks ground on Richmond apartments
The Breeden Co. has broken ground on a $21 million expansion at The Village at Westlake Apartments in Richmond, the Virginia Beach-based real estate development and management company announced Wednesday. The complex currently has 252 units across 12 buildings. The expansion will include five buildings with 120 two- and three-be[...]
