Perdue expands soybean export agreement with Chinese port operator.
Dandong Port Group could buy up to 29 million bushels of the 2013 soybean crop, worth more than $450 million with recent soybean prices.
Lynchburg building to be converted into loft apartments
1220 Commerce LLC bought property for $530,000
Medical center expands in Virginia Beach
New Hope Center for Reproductive Medicine leases 18,479 square feet.
The Homestead has more than 100 job openings
Bath County resort needs more employees as result of new attractions.
Warren Buffett’s media group to buy the Roanoke Times
BH Media Group to add newspaper to growing list of Virginia publications.
Goodbye, office park; hello, downtown
In the past year or so Fairfax County has approved several massive development projects that will create the long-planned conversion of Tysons from an office park into Fairfax County’s urban, walkable downtown.
Firm borrows business model from TV shows
April Straus and partner Bobby Hicks took cues from two of the network’s popular shows, “Property Brothers” and “Buying and Selling,” to create a business model for their new Richmond-based company, Bobby + April.
Franchises expand the boundaries of Dogtopia
Dogtopia in Tysons Corner grossed more than $1 million in 2004 after only two years of operation.
Museum founder is trying to start medical school
Noel Boaz, president and founder of the Integrative Centers for Science and Medicine, is trying to start Southern Virginia’s first medical school.
Vegetable producer creating jobs in New River Valley
JemD Farms’ greenhouse vegetables are grown in Mexico and Canada. Soon they’ll be produced in Pulaski County.
Startup’s product aims to not let bedbugs bite
Redcoat Solutions develops products to detect and treat infestations by insects, including bedbugs.
Launch is a milestone for Wallops, Orbital
Dulles-based Orbital Sciences successfully launched its 133-foot Antares rocket into orbit in mid-April from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.