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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. Photo courtesy Virginia Tech.
Dec 11, 2023

Gov. proposes $90M to launch ‘Va. Research Triangle’

In a preview of his 2024-26 proposed budget, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday that he is including $90 million in one-time funds to create “Virginia’s Research Triangle,” a network between the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech to build collaboration in biotechnology,[...]

Virginia Beach Oceanfront. Photo by Robyn Sidersky
Dec 4, 2023

Hampton Roads hotel revenues outpace Va., country

Hotel revenues in Hampton Roads outpaced Virginia and the nation through October, according to a report from Old Dominion University’s Dragas Center for Economic Analysis and Policy, citing data from STR, a division of CoStar Group that provides market data on the U.S. hospitality industry.  Through October, hotel revenues we[...]

Dec 1, 2023

Interim VP of Carilion Mental Health becomes permanent

Carilion Clinic has named Lisa Sprinkel its permanent vice president of Carilion Mental Health, adding to her duties as vice president of Carilion Clinic Home Health and Hospice department. With Dr. Robert Trestman, Carilion’s mental health chair, Sprinkel will lead the mental health team, which has a new location at Tangl[...]

Nov 29, 2023

Nation’s first Goodwill-owned supermarket to open in NW Roanoke

Roanoke-based Goodwill Industries of the Valleys broke ground Nov. 14 on Melrose Plaza, a community hub that will be anchored by the nation’s first full-scale, full-service grocery store owned and operated by a Goodwill organization. Slated to open in December 2024 in a Northwest Roanoke food desert, the 25,000-square-foot Mar[...]

Nov 28, 2023

Va. Tech hires CIO from Brown

Virginia Tech has named Sharon P. Pitt its vice president for information technology and chief information officer, the university announced Tuesday. Pitt will start her new role on Feb. 1, 2024. She returns to her alma mater from Brown University, where she is currently vice president for information technologies and chief info[...]

Downtown Lynchburg Association Executive Director Ashley Kershner says the eight-week Bright Nights on the Bluffwalk could attract people downtown. Photo by Jill Nance Waugh
Nov 15, 2023

Lynchburg association lands $310k in grants to aid downtown efforts

With help in part from three state grants, Downtown Lynchburg Association is working to brighten the city’s scenic Bluffwalk for the holidays and fill downtown stores. DLA combined a $75,000 Virginia Main Street Downtown Investment Grant with other funding to launch Bright Nights on the Bluffwalk, an eight-week event set to ki[...]

Oct 30, 2023

Rocky Forge project faces stiff headwinds

Eight years after it was first proposed, Virginia’s first onshore wind farm remains grounded behind regulatory, legal and political obstacles. Charlottesville-based Apex Clean Energy first announced plans for its Rocky Forge wind farm in 2015. Apex aimed to have blades spinning by 2017 on 25, 550-foot-tall wind turbines on Nor[...]

Oct 24, 2023

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 [...]

Daleville College Apartments. Photo courtesy Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer
Oct 20, 2023

20-unit Daleville apartment complex sells for $2M

A 20-unit apartment community in Botetourt County sold Tuesday for more than $2 million. Located at 151 College Drive in Daleville, the property’s first buildings were built in the early 1900s as a school, which was later affiliated with Bridgewater College before closing in 1933, according to Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhim[...]

Preston White speaking at a Virginia Tech fundraising campaign event in February 2020. Photo by Alex Driehaus for Virginia Tech.
Oct 11, 2023

Virginia Tech receives $10M gift for endowed scholarship

Preston White, the founder of Virginia Beach-based concrete contractor Century Concrete, and his wife, Catharine, have donated $10 million to Virginia Tech to create an endowed scholarship, the university announced Tuesday. The Whites’ latest gift to Tech, the Preston and Catharine White Endowed Diversity Scholarship, will eve[...]

Oct 10, 2023

Envelope maker to expand in Bedford County

Forest-based Parkland Direct, a lithographic print and custom envelope manufacturer, will invest $10 million to expand in Bedford County, creating 41 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday. The company will add 50,000 square feet to its current 60,000-square-foot facility to increase production capacity with the addition of two converters and press machines. The family-owned business […][...]

Oct 5, 2023

Virginia Tech professor named MacArthur Fellow

Linsey Marr, a university distinguished professor and the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, on Wednesday was named one of this year’s 20 MacArthur Fellows. A prestigious award known as the “genius grant,” the fellowship is awarded annually by the John D. and [...]

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