Cover Story
Changing times
A demographic revolution is transforming how Virginians live — and vote
Town houses and apartments, storefronts and restaurants, grassy medians, pocket parks, sidewalks everywhere. Doesn’t this look a lot like a downtown? Picking up his mail in slippers and shorts on
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Where the action is
Danville’s Telly Tucker moves to Arlington Economic Development
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In the wake of Amazon.com Inc.’s late 2018 announcement that its $2.5 billion HQ2 East Coast headquarters would locate in Arlington County, there’s been a game of musical chairs taking
Opinion
Rethinking big
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Once upon a time, I worked for a big company. Not for a short time, but a decades-long time. Somewhat unfortunately, I remember those years perhaps too well. Thousands of
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Chambers of commerce
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Virginia State Chamber of Commerce Richmond 804.644.1607 vachamber.com CENTRAL VIRGINIA Altavista Area Chamber of Commerce Altavista 434.369.6665 altavistachamber.com Amherst County Chamber of Commerce Amherst 434.946.0990 amherstvachamber.com Appomattox County Chamber of
Great expectations
Virginia has a host of ambitious projects underway
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There was perhaps no greater portent last year of Virginia’s rising fortunes than the news that the Old Dominion had regained its perch as the nation’s No. 1 state for
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Winds of change
Virginia Beach’s $8 billion offshore wind farm moves forward
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In September, Dominion Energy Inc. unveiled an ambitious, $8 billion project to erect the nation’s largest offshore wind farm off the Virginia Beach coast. If all goes to plan, it
Cyclical patterns
Volvo Group’s New River Valley employment ebbs and flows
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Last June, Volvo Group announced plans to invest nearly $400 million, add 350,000 square feet to its Dublin complex in Pulaski County — already the largest Volvo truck plant in
Banner year
With Merck and Hershey deals, valley hits investment record
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You’d be hard pressed to find an economic development official who had a better first year on the job than Jay Langston did in 2019. With Langston at the helm, the Shenandoah Valley Partnership, a regional
The bigger they are …
One of the state’s largest law firms, LeClairRyan dissolved in 2019
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After 31 years in business, LeClairRyan, the state’s fifth-largest law firm, announced in August 2019 that it would be shutting down. It filed for bankruptcy in September and entered liquidation
Record breakers
Donations continue to climb at Virginia universities
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Individuals and family foundations spread the wealth in 2019, giving record amounts to Virginia universities but also assisting cancer patients, museums and out-of-work coal miners. In October, the University of
A continuum of learning
JMU, BRCC partner to secure Merck investment
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While grocery shopping one evening in February 2019, Melissa Lubin received a phone call from Jay Langston, the new executive director of the Shenandoah Valley Partnership. A major employer in
Healthy and wealthy
Carilion, manufacturing industries step up operations
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Roanoke County’s main street — Electric Road (state Route 419) — is getting a big boost from the region’s largest employer. Carilion Clinic announced in September it had leased 150,000
Moving beyond coal
Stalwart Paul’s Fan Co. diversifies its business, creates jobs
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In 1923, the number of people earning a living mining coal in the United States peaked at 862,536. Now, that number is around 52,000, and many people and companies who
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