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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 […][...]
Dropping anchor
LS GreenLink USA spent two years on site selection, scouring much of the East Coast for the right location to build a 750,000-square-foot factory to manufacture subsea cables for offshore wind farms. Then it landed on Chesapeake. Patrick Shim, LS GreenLink’s managing director, cited several reasons for the company’s decision[...]
Virginia 500 Spotlight: JANE KAMENSKY
THREE WORDS TO DESCRIBE ME: Thick-skinned, committed, self-mocking WHERE I SEE MYSELF 10 YEARS FROM NOW: On a screened porch drinking coffee and looking at the Blue Ridge ADVICE FOR NEW COLLEGE GRADUATES: Democracy is hard work and a peerless privilege. Earn it every day. DID YOU KNOW? Kamensky, who in January became president o[...]
StartVirginia: Heard Around Virginia October 2024
Fairfax County announced Sept. 13 that it has awarded eight companies grants as part of the second cohort of the Fairfax Founders Fund (FFF). The fund, which supports the growth of the county’s startup ecosystem, provides technical assistance and $50,000 grants to startups developing innovative technology solutions and demonstrating business growth opportunities. The second FFF […]
A time of transition
Turns out, Charlie King isn’t a gone fishin’ sort of retiree. Back in 2021, King retired after serving as James Madison University’s chief financial officer and senior vice president of administration and finance for 25 years. King and his wife, Sherry, knew they wanted to stay in the area after retirement. Their son Garre[...]
Growth on the horizon
Patients in Hampton Roads will have another option for health care in spring 2025 with the opening of the 98,000-square-foot Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center in Suffolk. Construction is moving along on the $80 million facility, which will include 18 inpatient rooms and four operating rooms in the expansion of its existing[...]
The other tunnel project
Despite complications including a run-in with an abandoned anchor, workers are now back at it, constructing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel’s second tunnel across the Thimble Shoal Channel. As of July, the bridge-tunnel’s expansion from one tunnel to two is set to be finished in 2027 — five years later than expected and [...]
Smithfield Foods separates from European arm
Smithfield Foods announced in late August that its European operations have been carved into an independent subsidiary. The action took place a little over a month after Smithfield’s Chinese parent company, WH Group, which has its headquarters in Hong Kong, announced plans to take Smithfield Foods public in the United States.�[...]
Staunton Crossing industrial site gets ready for business
A $9 million state grant is helping Staunton reach the finish line on Staunton Crossing, its long-awaited industrial site. The state Virginia Business Ready Sites Program (VBRSP) development grant awarded Aug. 8 will help pay for a 1 million-gallon water tower and water supply lines, which will help complete water and sewer ac[...]
