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Virginia COVID-19 cases approach 13,800
As global coronavirus cases surpassed the 3 million mark Tuesday, the Virginia Department of Health reported 13,794 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the commonwealth, an increase of 736 cases. The largest 24-hour increase since the pandemic began, it breaks a previous record set three days earlier on April 25. The 13,794 cases do not[...]
Survey shows 34M U.S. jobs lost since mid-March
Approximately 10 million jobs have been lost in the United States since early April, according to a biweekly survey conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University and Arizona State University economists — bringing the total jobs lost since mid-March to approximately 34 million. “The size of these changes are hard to fathom,” said Adam Blandin, the VCU […]
CDC dispatches team to Eastern Shore poultry plants
A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arriving in Virginia today to assist with containing COVID-19 outbreaks among workers at two large poultry processing plants in Accomack County, Gov. Ralph Northam announced during a news briefing Monday. The plants, operated by Arkansas-based Tysons Foods Inc. and Ma[...]
Glen Allen-based real estate investment company names regional VP
Glen Allen-based real estate investment company Capital Square announced Monday that it has named Marc Meunier as regional vice president. He will be responsible for sales in the company’s northeast territory. Meunier was most recently the regional vice president for California-based SmartStop Asset Management LLC. In his new [...]
Suffolk office building sells for $8.5M
An office building in Suffolk sold for $8.5 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Capital Markets Group announced Monday. Located at 7025 Harbour View Blvd. in Bridgeway Commerce Park, Bridgeway Technology Center I is a 123,407-square-foot, single-story office building sitting on 16.03 acres. The office building w[...]
Virginia COVID-19 cases now exceed 13,000
In its Monday update, the Virginia Department of Health reported that 13,058 people have confirmed cases of COVID-19, not including 499 probable cases. There are 454 deaths among Virginians who have tested positive for the virus, as well as four probable fatalities, and 2,059 people who are hospitalized have tested positive. Nearly 80,200 people have […]
Va. reports 733 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
UPDATE SUNDAY, APRIL 26: The Virginia Department of Health reported 586 new confirmed COVID-19 cases Sunday, not including 482 probable cases, raising the states’s total confirmed cases to 12,488. There have been 448 deaths from COVID-19 in Virginia and 2,007 Virginians are hospitalized with the disease. Fairfax County, t[...]
Pandemic housing market has fewer sellers, higher sales prices
Virginia Business virtually sat down with Larry “Boomer” Foster, president of Long & Foster Real Estate, to get the current pulse on the real estate market in Virginia. The most recent data published was reflective of March real estate transactions in Northern Virginia, but Foster shared insight from the most up-to-date [...]
Hampden-Sydney College receives $2.45M in anonymous donations
Hampden-Sydney College announced Friday that it received two anonymous gifts totaling $2.45 million to establish a biology laboratory and add to the college’s need-based scholarship funding. A $1 million gift will establish the Hinton Baxter Overcash Immersive Biology Laboratory in the Pauley Science Center, which is exp[...]
UPDATED: Virginia’s colleges and universities announce fall plans
UPDATED JUNE 15 Colleges and universities in Virginia are discussing options for their fall semesters, which will probably be like nothing the state has seen before due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of June 12, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University, Radford University[...]
Northam looks ahead to reopening Virginia
UPDATED, SATURDAY APRIL 25: Gov. Ralph Northam’s office and Virginia Department of Health told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Saturday that Phase One of Northam’s “Forward Virginia” blueprint for easing statewide COVID-19 restrictions will not last two years. The newspaper had reported Friday that Virgini[...]
More small-business relief funds on the way
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a bill that allocates an additional $320 billion to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) — and Virginia banks are poised to resume making loans and taking applications Monday. The SBA approved 1.7 million loans before the initial $349 billion small-business relief fund ran out after […]
