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Capital Square moves Glen Allen HQ
Glen Allen-based real estate company Capital Square has relocated to a new, expanded corporate headquarters in Henrico County’s Innsbrook area, not far from its original headquarters. Capital Square has subleased the space at 4851 Lake Brook Drive in the Innsbrook Corporate Center until March 2028. The new office, which is[...]
Northrop Grumman CEO to chair Greater Washington Partnership
Northrop Grumman chair, CEO and president Kathy Warden is adding a new title to her résumé. On Jan. 1, 2024, Warden will officially take over as chair of the Greater Washington Partnership. She will be the first woman, first nonfounder and first CEO of a global company to lead the board for the partnership, a […]
Skanska tops off VSU academic commons building
New York-based development and construction firm Skanska USA held a topping-out ceremony this week for the $120 million Alfred W. Harris Academic Commons building being built at Virginia State University. The 175,000-square-foot building replaces VSU’s Harris Hall and Daniel Gymnasium and consolidates its College of Humani[...]
Former Siemens exec charged in Dominion bid-rigging case
A retired Siemens Energy executive is facing a felony charge in an alleged conspiracy to steal its competitor’s trade secrets, helping the German energy company prevail in a winning bid to build a gas turbine “peaker” plant in Chesterfield County for Dominion Energy in 2019. John Gibson, of Winter Park, Florida, was charged in U.S. […]
Norfolk warehouse sells for $1.3M
A 10,044-square-foot office and warehouse building in Norfolk sold Tuesday for $1.3 million. The building, on 1.71 acres at 1301 Marsh St., was previously owned by Daughters Trust 3557. Piedmont Land Development bought the property, which is fully leased, as an investment. It is currently leased to Hepaco, an environmental clean[...]
Massive foundation posts arrive for Dominion’s offshore wind farm
The first eight monopiles, the wind-turbine foundation posts for Dominion Energy’s $9.8 billion offshore wind farm, arrived at Portsmouth Marine Terminal on Oct. 19, and state officials and Dominion executives celebrated their arrival from Germany Friday. In a ceremony Friday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Dominion Chair, President[...]
GDIT lands $450M CMS contract
Falls Church-based federal contractor General Dynamics Information Technology won a $450 million Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contract, the General Dynamics subsidiary announced Thursday. Under the contract, GDIT will continue operating and modernizing CMS’ Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS), an accounting system that standardizes federal financial accounting for the centers’ programs. HI[...]
John ‘Dubby’ Wynne dies at 78
John O. “Dubby” Wynne only had one setting: giving 110%. He didn’t know how to do any less than that, even after years as a successful media executive who helped launch The Weather Channel, the 24-hour cable weather news channel. Instead of slowing down after his retirement as president and CEO after 27 years working [[...]
Shentel to acquire Ohio fiber company
Edinburg-based Shenandoah Telecommunications, better known as Shentel, plans to acquire Horizon Telcom for $385 million, the company announced Tuesday. Shentel will pay $305 million in cash and the rest in common stock. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024. Ohio-based Horizon, founded in 1895, is a commercial fiber provider with […]
RTX to sell cyber, intelligence biz for $1.3B amid Q3 slump
RTX has agreed to sell its cybersecurity, intelligence and services business segment for about $1.3 billion and announced a $10 billion stock buyback program Tuesday as it seeks to recover from a manufacturing quality issue in a jetliner engine that has plagued the Arlington County-based Fortune 500 defense and aerospace contrac[...]
Third-party logistics company to expand in Pulaski County
Wytheville-based third-party logistics company Camrett Logistics will invest more than $2 million to expand in Pulaski County, creating an estimated 58 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. Camrett Logistics’ investment in its Dublin facility will include construction, renovating existing space and buying new forklifts [...]
NNS funding helps launch ODU engineering program
Newport News Shipbuilding will be the lead industry sponsor of Old Dominion University’s program to graduate more engineers, the two organizations announced Tuesday. NNS, a division of Newport News-based Fortune 500 military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, will make a five-year financial commitment to the Monarch Ac[...]
