Hampton Roads hotel revenues outpace Va., country
Hotel revenues in Hampton Roads outpaced Virginia and the nation through October, according to a report from Old Dominion University’s Dragas Center for Economic Analysis and Policy, citing data from STR, a division of CoStar Group that provides market data on the U.S. hospitality industry. Through October, hotel revenue[...]
Hampton Roads real estate firm promotes facilities director
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices RW Towne Realty has promoted Jimmy Gillerlain to director of facilities, the Chesapeake-based real estate firm announced Tuesday. Gillerlain will lead the operations team and oversee facilities management for all company-owned and managed assets. He was with Rose & Womble Realty for 17 years [...]
Harvey Lindsay acquires condo management portfolio
Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate acquired a management portfolio of 50 buildings in the Hampton Roads region, the Norfolk-based real estate firm announced Tuesday. A Harvey Lindsay representative said the financial terms of the acquisition from Norfolk-based leasing and property management company Cavalier Land were confide[...]
Site selectors conference coming to Virginia Beach
Area Development magazine will bring its national spring conference for site selection consultants and economic development officials to Hampton Roads. The Area Development Spring Consultants Forum is slated for June 10-12, 2024, at the Marriott Virginia Beach Oceanfront. Devoted to corporate site selection and relocation, the m[...]
Norfolk makes economic development head permanent
The City of Norfolk will keep Sean Washington as its director of economic development permanently after serving as interim director since August 2022, the city announced Tuesday. His appointment was effective Nov. 6. Before serving as interim director, Washington was assistant director from November 2020 through August 2022, but[...]
Bonaventure acquires Norfolk apartments for $42M
Alexandria-based real estate company Bonaventure has acquired Monticello Station, a Class A apartment building in downtown Norfolk, for $42 million, the company announced last week. The 121-unit building at 328 Freemason St. has one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. S.L. Nusbaum previously owned the property, according to B[...]
Trader Interactive CEO Lori Stacy to retire
Trader Interactive CEO Lori Stacy will retire Dec. 14 and Chief Operating Officer David McMinn will succeed her in leading the Virginia Beach-based online marketplace for boats, recreational vehicles, motorcycles and other niche vehicles. Stacy, who has served as CEO since 2017, will take on the new position of chair of Trader I[...]
International logistics company to expand in Norfolk
Katoen Natie Norfolk, a subsidiary of Belgian international logistics service provider and port operator Katoen Natie, will invest $59.9 million to expand its Norfolk facility and create an estimated 76 jobs. Katoen Natie Norfolk will add a 450,000-square-foot warehouse and rail yard, and expand its existing rail spur, which will allow more room to load […]
Va. Beach digital solutions company to add 300+ jobs
Virginia Beach-based Doma Technologies, a software company founded in 2000, will invest $3.7 million to expand in the city, adding about 307 jobs in the next three years and bringing its total to about 500 employees, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. The expansion will include a new 69,000-square-foot facility. Doma is currently located along London […]
Siemens Gamesa cancels $200M Portsmouth wind blade factory
Amid failing turbine components and financial challenges, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy said Friday it has “discontinued” its plans to build the nation’s first offshore wind-turbine blade manufacturing facility at the Port of Virginia’s Portsmouth Marine Terminal. “Siemens Gamesa will continue to [...]
Newport News Shipbuilding expands to Norfolk
With the largest workload it’s had in four decades, Newport News Shipbuilding has had to get creative about how to use the limited footprint at its shipyard in Newport News. So when an opportunity to set up a second campus not far away — on the other side of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, in Norfolk […]
EVMS, ODU merger pushed to July 2024
The merger of Eastern Virginia Medical School into Old Dominion University has been pushed back six months, to July 1, 2024, instead of January as originally planned, ODU President Brian O. Hemphill announced Friday during his State of the University address. While that date still meets the deadline set by Gov. Glenn Youngkin an[...]