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Va. hotels expect 28% drop in 2022 biz travel revenue
Virginia hotel revenue from business travel this year is projected to be down 28.3% from pre-pandemic levels, or about $674 million less than the $2.39 billion the lodging industry took in during 2019, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Hotel & Lodging Association and Kalibri Labs. Nationally, the associa[...]
ODU names new engineering dean
Old Dominion University has named Kenneth Fridley its new dean of the Batten College of Engineering and Technology, the university announced April 14. He will start at ODU July 1. Khan Iftekharuddin, the Batten Endowed Chair in Machine Learning in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been serving as the col[...]
HCA Virginia names new LewisGale CEO and market president
Alan Fabian, formerly CEO of LewisGale Hospital Montgomery in Blacksburg, has been promoted as market president and CEO of Salem-based LewisGale Regional Health System, its parent health system, HCA Virginia, announced Tuesday. Fabian has been with HCA Healthcare since 1995 and at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery since 2013. Before[...]
Atlantic Union reopens corporate offices
John Asbury, president and CEO of Richmond-based Atlantic Union Bankshares, has learned a lot about his employees during the pandemic. Chief among them: Many of them often don’t need to be in the office five days a week to get their work done. But he also knows that some in-office collaboration is key to the […]
Bill Buchanan named CEO of BARC Electric Co-op
Millboro-based BARC Electric Cooperative has named Bill Buchanan as CEO, replacing Michael Keyser, who left the cooperative in December 2021. Buchanan will take over as CEO effective May 9. Chief Operations Officer Chris Botulinski has been filling in as interim CEO and will return to his role as COO, the cooperative announced M[...]
Leesburg environmental firm wins $136.9M NOAA contract
Leesburg-based environmental contracting firm Lynker has received a $136.9 million, five-year contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide scientific support to the National Weather Service’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Work is expected to begin Sept. 1 and will be performed at the weather services’ Environmental Modeling Center in College Park, Maryland, […][...]
39% of metro D.C. workers are back in the office
During the week of April 6, offices around the country had the highest number of workers back at their desks since March 2020, according to Falls Church-based Kastle Systems, which is tracking office occupancy data for 10 major cities, including the metro Washington, D.C., region. During the first week in April, an average of 43[...]
Sturtevant to leave Virginia Realtors for Bright MLS
Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist for Glen Allen-based Virginia Realtors, will join Bright MLS in May, Virginia Realtors announced earlier this month. Sturtevant has served as chief economist for the statewide Realtor organization since January 2020 and will continue consulting when she begins her new role. Rockville, Maryland-ba[...]
Herndon analytics firm taps new president and CFO
Herndon-based data analytics firm Illuminate has named Tameika Hollis as president and Scott Crane as chief financial officer, according to an April 12 announcement. Hollis previously served as Illuminate’s chief operations officer and joined the company in 2020 after nearly 17 years as a program manager and executive at Northrop Grumman, according to her LinkedIn […]
Booz Allen to sell Middle East/N. Africa biz
New York-based management consulting firm Oliver Wyman announced last week that it has entered an agreement to acquire McLean-based Fortune 500 global management consultant Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.’s business serving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to cl[...]
Va. construction contractor upsizes Roanoke office
Chesterfield County-based commercial and industrial contractor Atlantic Constructors Inc.’s Roanoke team moved this month into a renovated building double the size of its previous office and shop/warehouse space. The building at 1302 Rockland Ave. NW is 32,000 square feet. Property records show that ACI Suffolk LLC purchas[...]
Norfolk mobile home parks sell for $9.75M, $6.4M
Two mobile home parks in Norfolk have sold, one for $9.75 million and one for $6.4 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Capital Markets Group announced Thursday. Located at 6659 E. Virginia Beach Blvd., Smitty’s Mobile Home Park consists of 136 pad sites on about 12.3 acres. Bonaventure bought the property [...]
