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A steady breeze
Dominion Energy’s long-anticipated $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is steadily taking shape as gigantic monopile foundations are installed in the ocean floor 27 miles off the Virginia Beach coast. This past spring, four years after two test turbines began generating power, Dominion installed the first monop[...]
Va. Tech Carilion med school plans new building, doubled enrollment
In 2010, the first class of students arrived at Roanoke’s new medical school, a partnership between Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic. And nearly 15 years later, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is undertaking ambitious growth plans. The medical school is in the early stages of planning a new 100,000-square-foot f[...]
Workforce and entrepreneur development
The Apprentice School at Newport News Shipbuilding Founded in 1919, The Apprentice School in Newport News has graduated more than 11,000 apprentices over its long history. Part of Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division, it offers apprenticeship programs and Associate of Applied Science degrees in 19 shipbuilding disciplines and eight optional advanced programs of […][...]
Top Five September 2024
The five most popular daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from July 15 to Aug. 15 included news of Liberty University and Jerry Falwell Jr. resolving their legal disputes. 1 | Liberty, Falwell Jr. reach global settlement Liberty University and its former president and chancellor, Jerry Falwell Jr., reached a global [...]
Top Five August 2024
The five most popular daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from June 12 to July 12 included news of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s appointees now holding a majority on the governing boards of Virginia’s state colleges and universities. 1 | Youngkin peppers university boards with GOP power players New members included some conservative movers […]
Top Five July 2024
1 | 39 Virginia companies make the 2024 Fortune 1000 Thirty-nine companies headquartered in Virginia are on Fortune magazine’s 70th annual Fortune 1000 list, with 24 Virginia companies again making the elite Fortune 500. (June 4) 2 | VDOT buys Owens & Minor’s Hanover headquarters for $33.5 million The Virginia Department of […]
Top Five June 2024
1 | Google investing $1 billion in Virginia data center campuses Google is expanding its Virginia data center campuses this year and is launching a $75 million Google.org AI opportunity fund. (April 26) 2 | Richmond-based attorneys win U.S. Supreme Court case After nine years and through three U.S. presidents, attorneys […]
Top Five May 2024
The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from March 13 to April 12 were led by news that Altria would sell a large portion of its stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev. 1 | Altria plans to sell 35 million Anheuser-Busch InBev shares The Henrico County-based Fortune 500 tobacco manufacturer holds about 197 [...]
Top Five April 2024
The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from Feb. 14 to March 13 were led by news that Danish toymaker Lego will delay production at its Chesterfield County facility until 2027. 1 | Lego delays Chesterfield production start to 2027 Lego Group will begin production at its $1 billion manufacturing facility […]
Top Five – March 2024
The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from Jan. 16 to Feb. 13 were led by news that Buc-ee’s broke ground on its Rockingham County travel center. 1 | Buc-ee’s starts construction on Rockingham center Texas-based convenience store chain Buc-ee’s started construction on its first travel cent[...]
Top Five February 2024
The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from Dec. 15, 2023, to Jan. 15 were led by the announcement that Fortune 500 IT company DXC Technology replaced its top executive. 1 | DXC Technology replaces Mike Salvino The Ashburn-based company replaced Salvino, its chairman, president and CEO, with interim President and […]
Top Five January 2024
The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from Nov. 16, 2023, to Dec. 14, 2023, included proposed state funding for a biotech research network between three Virginia universities. 1 | Pittsylvania site is top contender for $100 million battery project The Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill is the top contender […]
