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Sep 1, 2021

Amazon opens career center, two distribution facilities in Hampton Roads

Amazon.com Inc. has launched a career center and two delivery stations in Hampton Roads, it announced Wednesday. The Amazon Career Center opened last week at 1989 S. Military Highway in Chesapeake and will serve as a hiring and orientation hub for Amazon’s facilities in Chesapeake, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hampton and Virginia Be[...]

Aug 31, 2021

Virginia Beach office building sells for $10.45M

A building in the Reflections Office Park in Virginia Beach sold for $10.45 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Monday. Built in 1999, the building, Reflections IV, is 79,946 square feet and sits on 4.51 acres. It is located at 2901 S. Lynnhaven Road, and its tenants include Timmons Group, RK&K, Midgett Pr[...]

Aug 31, 2021

Virginia Beach neighborhood center sells for $6.43M

A neighborhood shopping center in Virginia Beach sold for $6.43 million, Colliers’ Retail Investment Group announced last week. Located at 3208 Holland Road, the center, Buckner Plaza, is 63,500 square feet and sits on 5.48 acres. It is 95.4% leased and anchored by Food Lion and Dollar General. Food Lion has been a tenant [...]

Aug 31, 2021

Virginia Beach restaurant building sells for $1.6M

A restaurant building in Virginia Beach sold for $1.6 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Monday. Located at 1784 General Booth Blvd., the building is 5,105 square feet. Mahant Enterprise LLC bought the building from El Tapatio III for a Fuddruckers restaurant. Rob Wright with Thalhimer handled the sale on beh[...]

The Chesapeake Bay, stretching from Fort Monroe to Annapolis, Maryland, is being proposed as a national recreation area. Photo courtesy National Park Service
Aug 30, 2021

Boosters seek federal protection for Chesapeake Bay recreation

For decades, conservationists have lobbied for the Chesapeake Bay to become a national park. During the past year, a new twist on that old idea has gained momentum: establishing the Chesapeake Bay as a national recreation area, stretching from Hampton‘s Fort Monroe north to Annapolis, Maryland. National recreation areas ex[...]

Aug 27, 2021

Prism Maritime LLC to build two Chesapeake facilities

Chesapeake-based government contractor Prism Maritime LLC will invest $4 million to construct two 12,000-square-foot facilities in Chesapeake, creating 166 jobs, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday. The facilities will be used for manufacturing, lab and storage space and will be located in the Greenbrier North Commerce Park. Founded in 2006, Prism Maritime provides engineering, research, development […][...]

Aug 27, 2021

Hampton Roads universities ink deal to establish public health school

The presidents of Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University and Eastern Virginia Medical School signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to establish Virginia’s first school of public health. The MOU solidifies the plan announced in January to develop a regional school of public health and address health inequ[...]

Aug 27, 2021

Suffolk retail property sells for $4.5M

A Suffolk retail property leased to Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia sold for $4.5 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Thursday. Located at 2901 Godwin Blvd., the single tenant, net-leased property is 15,477 square feet. Stablewood Properties LLC purchased the property from Good Partners LLC. Clark Sim[...]

Dominion has erected two pilot wind turbines as part of its plan to build the nation’s largest offshore wind farm 27 miles off the Virginia Beach coast. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Aug 25, 2021

Dominion Energy and Port of Va. reach lease agreement for offshore wind project

Dominion Energy Inc. and the Port of Virginia reached an agreement allowing Dominion to lease 72 acres of the Portsmouth Marine Terminal, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday. Dominion Energy will use its portion of the 287-acre terminal, one of the Port of Virginia’s two multiuse terminals in the Norfolk Harbor, as a st[...]

COVID-19 vaccination shot Photo credit Art Writ, Capital News Service
Aug 25, 2021

More Va. health systems announce vaccine mandates

Major hospital systems in Hampton Roads and Central Virginia announced Wednesday that they will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.  In Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, Riverside Health System and Sentara Healthcare jointly announc[...]

Aug 24, 2021

Dominion Business Center in Chesapeake sells for $5M

The two-building Dominion Business Center in Chesapeake sold for $5 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Capital Markets Group announced Aug. 16. Located at 1001, 1005 and 1009 Scenic Parkway, Dominion Business Center sits on about 21 acres within the 325-acre Dominion Commerce Park. The center is 90% leased to a[...]

Aug 23, 2021

Dragas Cos. plans 150-home development in Chesapeake

Virginia Beach-based Dragas Cos. will break ground on a single-family residential development project in Chesapeake in 2022. The project, named Crestfield, will lie on 65 acres off Elbow Road near Centerville Turnpike North. It will have 150 single-family homes of roughly 2,450 to 2,800 square feet each. The houses are expected [...]

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