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Hampton Roads seeks opportunities amid federal policy changes
Hampton Roads leaders warn of risks from tariffs, defense cuts and energy policy while seeing growth in military tech and industry.
Atlantic Park surf lagoon makes waves in Virginia Beach
Atlantic Park Surf debuts in Virginia Beach with a Wavegarden lagoon, year-round waves, a new concert venue and luxury entertainment options.
Hampton Roads Business 2025: Executive Insights
Virginia Business asked six Hampton Roads leaders to discuss how their organizations are contributing to the region’s success and meeting challenges such as changing trade policy, regional cooperation and workforce training. PAT DAVIS-HAGENS Market president, Bon Secours Hampton Roads, Suffolk How does Bon Secours assess w[...]
Hampton Roads projects under construction or recently delivered
Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center, Suffolk In May, Bon Secours opened its three-story, 100,000-square-foot Harbour View Medical Center in Suffolk. The facility, which adjoins the existing Bon Secours Health Center at Harbour View, came with a price tag of about $85 million. Harbour View Medical Center, which includes 18 pr[...]
Workforce education in Hampton Roads
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[...]
Wind energy projects continue despite federal headwinds
Despite cost increases, legal challenges, tariff uncertainty and President Donald Trump‘s dogged opposition to wind energy, Dominion Energy‘s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is on track to begin powering 660,000 homes in late 2026. Construction on the 2.6-gigawatt project 27 miles off the Virginia Beach coast [...]
Navy, Dominion sign energy agreement
In June, leaders from Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, which provides weapons and munitions support to the U.S. Navy, and Fortune 500 utility Dominion Energy signed an agreement to explore the development of a “reliable, resilient and responsible” energy source at the base. It could involve solar power, a small modular nuclea[...]
Command consolidation could decimate Fort Eustis
Uncertainty swept through Hampton Roads this summer when the U.S. Army announced a significant transformation of its Training and Doctrine Command, aka TRADOC, headquartered at Fort Eustis in Newport News. In May, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee that the command would be m[...]
Hampton Roads grows warehouses, industrial projects
Despite a nationwide slowdown in industrial growth, Hampton Roads has major projects in its pipeline. In Virginia Beach, Amazon is wrapping up work on its five-floor, 3.2 million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center, the second part of a $350 million project that includes a 219,000-square-foot delivery station that opened las[...]
Hampton Roads housing market remains competitive
Hampton Roads home prices hit a $375K median in June as low inventory drives demand, with new builds expanding in Suffolk and New Kent.
Sentara College of Health Sciences moving to Virginia Wesleyan
Sentara College of Health Sciences will join Virginia Wesleyan in 2026, expanding access to nursing and health care degree programs.
ODU internship boost preps students for future
As a creative writing major at Old Dominion University, Kayla Boney says she knows jobs in her field after graduation may be “one in a million.” However, an internship with Teens with a Purpose, a Norfolk-based youth creative arts nonprofit, showed Boney, a 20-year-old rising junior, that her pursuits in the humanities, whil[...]
