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Three Haymarket buildings sold for $13M
An affiliate of Fairfax-based Meladon Group LLC purchased three buildings in Haymarket for $13 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Tuesday. The seller was not disclosed. The portfolio includes buildings leased to CVS, Chick-Fil-A and Virginia National Bank on 5.63 acres at the intersection of Virginia Route 15[...]
Consumer Technology Association: “CES will and must go on”
The Arlington-based Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is moving forward with its CES consumer technology trade show in Las Vegas in January, despite cancelations from big exhibitors and the surge of COVID-19 cases fueled by the omicron variant. Formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, CES typically draws thousands of[...]
Bechtel subsidiary wins $872M Navy contracts
A subsidiary of Reston-based global engineering, construction and project management company Bechtel Group Inc. won a pair of contract modifications, totaling about $872 million, from the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense announced Monday. Monroeville, Pennsylvania-based Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., has been awarded a $621.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract for naval […][...]
Ashburn Walgreens store sells for $9M
A Walgreens drugstore retail location in Ashburn sold for $9 million on Dec. 1, according to Loudoun County online property records. Tater Ashburn LLC purchased the 88,862-square-foot building at 20321 Susan Leslie Drive from Wirrulla Livermore LLC. The building sits on about two acres of land and is leased to Walgreens. Marcus [...]
Northrop Grumman subsidiary lands $1.4B Army contract
The U.S. Army awarded a subsidiary of Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. a $1.38 billion contract to work on the Integrated Battle Command System, the Department of Defense announced Dec. 23. The hybrid contract was awarded to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. by the U.S. Army Contracting Command out of Restone Arsenal, Alabama. The contract is […]
Chantilly’s CTSI acquires Fla. security firm
Chantilly-based technology firm Corbett Technology Solutions Inc. (CTSI) announced Tuesday it had acquired Orlando, Florida-based risk, resilience and security services provider Star Asset Security. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CTSI is a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners. The transaction is CTSI’s sixth acquisition since it was acquired […][...]
$40.8M apartment building in Alexandria sells
A 227-unit apartment building in Alexandria assessed at $40.8 million sold for an undisclosed sum, JLL Capital Markets announced Tuesday. JLL Capital Markets arranged a three-year $34.34 million loan for commercial real estate company Washington Property Co., which brought the property from 100 South Reynolds LLC. The loan was s[...]
Virginia Beach, Manassas apartment complexes sell for $77.6M
An apartment complex in Virginia Beach sold for $52.1 million, and an apartment building in Manassas for $25.5 million, Alexandria-based real estate company Bonaventure announced Monday. Sitting on 19.83 acres, Magnolia Run is a 200-unit, 421,272-square-foot apartment complex in Virginia Beach with two- and three-bedroom units, [...]
Merrick named as state’s next commerce secretary
Caren Merrick, the CEO of Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s nonprofit Virginia Ready Initiative, has been chosen to serve as Virginia’s next secretary of commerce and trade, Youngkin’s campaign announced Tuesday. Before leading VA Ready, a role in which she managed $10 million in public and private funding t[...]
Cvent goes public again
Tysons-based event software company Cvent Holding Corp. began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market Dec. 9 after closing its merger the day before with San Francisco-based SPAC Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp. II. The move is Cvent’s second time going public. In 2016, Vista Equity Partners acquired it for $1.65 billion a[...]
Va. invests $722M in broadband expansion
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam this week announced a state investment of $722 million in grants toward expanding high-speed internet service in 70 localities across the commonwealth. The governor says the funding will help Virginia achieve 90% of its universal broadband access goal by 2024. “Broadband access impacts every facet o[...]
Tysons Partnership names acting exec. director
Tysons Partnership Inc. has named Richard Bradley, principal at Washington, D.C.-based The Urban Partnership LLC, as the organization’s acting executive director, effective Jan. 1. Bradley succeeds Tysons Partnership President and CEO Sol Glasner, who is stepping down Dec. 31. Glasner announced his retirement in August aft[...]
