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Carry-On Trailer expands Westmoreland operation
Georgia-based Carry-On Trailer, a leading manufacturer of steel and utility trailers, will invest $9.2 million to increase capacity at its facility in Westmoreland County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. The project is expected to create 60 jobs. To meet increasing customer demand in the northeast, Carry-On Trailer plans [...]
Dollar Tree considers selling or spinning off Family Dollar
Chesapeake-based Fortune 500 discount retailer Dollar Tree is considering selling or spinning off its Family Dollar brand, which it acquired in 2015 for $8.5 billion. “Dollar Tree has been on a multiyear journey to help the company fully achieve its potential,” CEO and Chairman Rick Dreiling said in a statement Wednesday. �[...]
Clark Nexsen contributes to SEALs D-Day monument
Eighty years after the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy, France, a Virginia company and other contractors gathered there to unveil a monument honoring the World War II predecessors of the Navy SEALs and special boat crews. The Navy SEAL Museum San Diego, a museum opening late this year and a sister institution to [&hell[...]
Norfolk property management firm promotes president, principal broker
John Chandler has been promoted to president and principal broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Property Management, the Norfolk-based real estate firm announced Wednesday. Chandler was previously director of facilities and compliance for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Realty and chief operating officer o[...]
Jefferson Lab scientists to study water treatment methods
Jefferson Lab, the Newport News-based Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility known worldwide for its highly scientific research, is now looking to take on solutions to everyday problems, starting with eliminating harmful chemicals in drinking water. Jefferson Lab researchers use high-energy electron beams to study the bu[...]
FOR THE RECORD June 2024
CENTRAL VIRGINIA Washington, D.C.-based real estate analytics and data company CoStar Group will receive a grant from the City of Richmond worth several million dollars because of the company’s plan to build an office tower expected to generate more than $30 million in new tax revenue. On April 22, Richmond City Council approved an ordinance […]
Atlantic Park expected to open in spring 2025
The $350 million Atlantic Park project backed by music icon Pharrell Williams in his hometown of Virginia Beach is progressing, with the 2.6-acre surf lagoon, entertainment venue and other pieces of the project expected to be delivered in spring 2025, Kathy Warren, Virginia Beach’s planning director, told the city council [...]
Dollar Tree to acquire 99 Cents Only stores
Chesapeake-based Fortune 500 discount retailer Dollar Tree has acquired 170 leases of another discount retailer, 99 Cents Only, the company announced Wednesday. The stores are across Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. In April, Commerce, California-based 99 Cents Only filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and initiated [...]
Kaufman & Canoles names Williamsburg managing partner
Dustin H. DeVore has been named managing partner of Kaufman & Canoles’ Williamsburg office, effective May 21, the law firm announced. DeVore joined Kaufman & Canoles in 2002 and chairs the firm’s lender representation practice group and the firm’s credit union team. Outside the firm, he serves on the bo[...]
Dominion installs first post for offshore wind project
Dominion Energy plunged the first monopile — after the two existing pilot turbines — into the sea floor Wednesday, kicking off construction of the $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project that will bring 176 turbines 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. Installation of the post started mid-morning and [...]
Vanguard Landing apartments under construction in Va. Beach
Vanguard Landing, an “intentional community” specifically designed for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is under construction in Virginia Beach. Developers broke ground on the first phase in April and started construction in earnest in May. The mixed-use community, which claims to be the first[...]
Suffolk logistics facility purchased for $50.5M
An entity connected with Ashley Capital, a New York-based industrial real estate company, sold a multi-tenant facility in Suffolk for $50.5 million to a Florida real estate investment firm on May 1, according to the city’s property records. The Bridgeway Business Center, a 707,000-square-foot warehousing and distribution f[...]
