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Metro to keep reduced service levels through end of year
Metro customers will see reduced rail service through the end of the year, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced Monday. The transit system authority attributed the disruption to its 7000-series fleet, the newest rail cars, still being out of service. These trains make up much of Metro’s fleet but ha[...]
Stafford supervisor elected to head VACo
Stafford County Supervisor Meg Bohmke was elected the next president of the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo) at the group’s annual conference in Norfolk on Nov. 16. Bohmke succeeds Fairfax County Chairman Jeffrey C. McKay and becomes the second president from Stafford to lead the association, following Ferris M. Bel[...]
Springfield office building sells for $29.3M
The Springfield Corporate Center office building sold for $29.3 million, New York-based real estate company Newmark Group Inc. announced Wednesday. Located at 6225 Brandon Ave., the five-story building is 138,830 square feet. The building was constructed in 1988 and renovated in 2014 and 2015 in a $2.7 million program. The prope[...]
Two NoVa office properties sell for $118M, $27.6M
Monday Properties has acquired two properties in Northern Virginia, the real estate investment firm and developer announced Thursday. The firm closed deals on Three Ballston Plaza, a 330,000-square-foot office building in Arlington’s Rosslyn-Ballston corridor, for $118 million and a 184,000-square-foot office building at 3[...]
Amazon has hired 3,500 HQ2 workers
Amazon.com Inc. has hired 3,500 of its 25,000 planned workers for HQ2, the tech behemoth’s $2.5 billion East Coast headquarters in Arlington. Meanwhile, construction on the two office towers for HQ2’s first phase, Metropolitan Park, is more than halfway complete, company representatives said during a site tour Wednes[...]
The Motley Fool hires chief diversity and inclusion officer
Alexandria-based financial services company The Motley Fool Holdings Inc. has hired its first chief diversity and inclusion officer, the company announced Wednesday. Rachel Williams joined the company on Nov. 12. She will work on recruiting, leadership development, employee engagement and retention. Her focus will also include a[...]
Noblis CFO to retire in 2022
Noblis Inc.’s senior vice president, chief financial and administrative officer and treasurer, Mark Simione, will retire July 8, 2022, the Reston-based not-for-profit federal contractor announced this week. Gary Sladic, the company’s vice president of finance and accounting, has been appointed deputy CFO and will assume the top role after Simione’s retirement. “As one of the […][...]
MWAA creates diversity, inclusion, social impact VP post
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which oversees the Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport, created a new Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Impact on Wednesday, to be led by Tanisha Lewis, a 21-year veteran of the authority. Lewis was named the authority’s firs[...]
Northrop Grumman commits $12.5M to Va. Tech Innovation Campus
Falls Church-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has pledged $12.5 million to support research and teaching in quantum information science and engineering, becoming a partner of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria. Virginia Tech officials announced the donation Wednesday mornin[...]
Reston tech company promotes CFO
Reston-based tech and network security company Electrosoft Services Inc. announced Tuesday that it promoted Justin Lapington to the role of chief financial officer. Lapington had been the company’s vice president of finance since September 2020. He led the implementation of a new resource planning system and expanded the f[...]
Fairfax-based Peterson Cos. opens self-storage division
Fairfax-based real estate company The Peterson Cos. has formed a self-storage division, the company announced Monday. It is the company’s first new division in more than 35 years and Jim Mertz will run it, the company said in a news release. Mertz joined Peterson Cos. in 2015 to lead the development effort for Promenade at[...]
CACI wins $785M Army contract
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor CACI International Inc. won a potentially $785 million contract to support the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), the company announced Tuesday. Under the five-year single-award task order for Special Operations Forces Emerging Threats, Operations and Planning Support, CACI will provide expertise in integrated information warfare and electronic warfare solutions, training, […][...]
