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Apr 28, 2023

Va. Beach strip mall sells for $1.7M

The CheckSmart Plaza strip mall in Virginia Beach has a new owner.  5650 Virginia Beach Blvd purchased the strip mall at 5650 Virginia Beach Blvd. from the Lenhart-Frauenberg Partnership for $1.7 million as an investment, according to Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer. Built in 2006, the shopping center is 8,537 square feet, [...]

Apr 28, 2023

Rain and wind delay Something in the Water’s start

Rain and high winds delayed the start of Pharrell Williams’ Virginia Beach music festival Something in the Water by about four hours Friday, leaving fans and businesses waiting for the weather to clear. Scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m. Friday, the festival was delayed until 5 p.m. Instead of being filled with throngs of mu[...]

Apr 28, 2023

Va. Beach uses SITW festival to woo business

It’s not every week that international fashion brand Louis Vuitton creates a pyramid on the sand at Virginia Beach’s Oceanfront.   And that kind of buzz that music superstar Pharrell Williams is bringing to his hometown with his Something in the Water this weekend is something the city’s economic development official[...]

Apr 27, 2023

New rules

In theory, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) would, among other things, help reduce inflation by adding transparency to container handling fees. In practice, though, it’s not that simple. When President Joe Biden signed OSRA into law in June 2022, he touted it as a weapon against shipping costs that had soared during the pa[...]

Apr 27, 2023

Building a hub

Fairwinds Landing LLC is demolishing dilapidated infrastructure, preparing to construct new facilities and signing tenants as it transforms Norfolk Southern Corp.’s Lambert’s Point Docks in Norfolk into Fairwinds Landing, a maritime operations and logistics center supporting Hampton Roads’ offshore wind, defense and transp[...]

Apr 27, 2023

May 2023 For the Record

Central Virginia More than 340 union workers went on strike at the AdvanSix Inc. chemical plant in Hopewell on April 6 over contract wage negotiations. The International Chemical Workers Union Council and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union accused the New Jersey-based chemical company of trying to divide union membership by offering pay raises […]

Apr 27, 2023

Chesapeake preps 1,400-acre industrial park

Whenever a big economic development announcement from another state pops up in the news, Hampton Roads Alliance President and CEO Doug Smith can count on his phone ringing. “I get a call from somebody saying, ‘Why didn’t we get that?’” says Smith. “And the answer is real simple: We didn’t have 500 acres or 1,500 [&[...]

Apr 27, 2023

Building a ‘floatel’

Construction is set to begin late this year on a service operations vessel (SOV) that will transport technicians and equipment to support the massive wind turbines that Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A. is installing for Dominion Energy Inc.’s $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project off the Virginia Beach coast. Crowley Corp., a Jacksonville, […]

The 2019 Something in the Water festival was “by far” the biggest event ever staged at Virginia Beach, says John Zirkle, president of the city’s hotel association. Photo courtesy city of Virginia Beach
Apr 27, 2023

Va. Beach hotels may not sell out for SITW

Something in the Water, the three-day Virginia Beach music festival helmed by music superstar Pharrell Williams, is a big economic deal for Hampton Roads — but whether area hotels will sell out is still up in the air. As of Thursday evening, a quick scan of Expedia.com showed some remaining rooms near the Virginia Beach [&hell[...]

Apr 25, 2023

Hampton Roads shipyards receive nearly $1B in Navy contracts

The Pentagon has announced nearly $1 billion in Navy contracts for work on vessels in Hampton Roads. Under one contract, valued at $847 million, Reston-based General Dynamics Corp.’s Norfolk-based shipyards will support emergent work, continuous maintenance, pre-refueling complex overhaul availabilities, ship terminal offload program availability and scheduled work on aircraft carriers in the mid-Atlantic through […][...]

Apr 24, 2023

DroneUp to deliver meds to Eastern Shore

Virginia Beach-based unmanned flight company DroneUp will launch a project to deliver medications via drone to patients on the Eastern Shore and Tangier Island as part of a collaboration with Riverside Health System and the Virginia Institute for Spaceflight & Autonomy (VISA) at Old Dominion University, among other partners.[...]

Norfolk city government acquired the unsuccessful Military Circle mall in 2020 and is seeking bids to redevelop it into a walkable, live-work-play community. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Apr 21, 2023

Demo begins on Military Circle Mall with site’s future uncertain

Norfolk started the first phase of demolition of Military Circle Mall Friday, but the future of the property remains unclear. Demolition will continue through late June, according to the city. The first phase will start with separate buildings on the property, including China Garden, Martin’s Café, and The Military Circle[...]

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