Primis Bank selling minority interest back to Southern Trust Mortgage
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter
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Glen Allen-based Primis Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLean-based Primis Financial Corp., entered into an agreement to sell its minority interest back to Virginia Beach-based Southern Trust Mortgage LLC (STM), it announced Thursday. Primis Financial Corp. expects to record a pre-tax charge of about $2.9 million in the third quarter. STM will repurchase all of
Home sales, price growth to slow in 2022 after rapid 2021 rises
Virginia Realtors predicts home sales up 6.2% in 2021, 0.1% in 2022
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Virginia home sales in 2022 will be down by about a tenth of a percent compared to 2021 sales, according to a forecast report released Friday by Virginia Realtors. In 2021, the report projects a total of about 148,600 home sales in Virginia, up 6.2% from 2020. “While home sales activity in 2021 will surpass
Roanoke College president to retire in 2022
Michael C. Maxey has served the longest of any Roanoke College president
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Michael C. Maxey, the 11th president of Roanoke College, announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the academic year. Maxey has been with Roanoke College, located in Salem, since 1985 and has served as president since 2007. He has served the longest of any of the college’s presidents, according to a news
VPM president and CEO elected to PBS board
Jayme Swain will serve a three-year term as a professional director
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Jayme Swain, VPM and Virginia Foundation for Public Media president and CEO, was elected to serve a three-year term as a professional director on the Public Broadcasting Service Board, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced Wednesday. Swain oversees VPM, which is a Richmond-based network of PBS and NPR stations across Central Virginia and the
Company to build $4.2M facility in Brunswick County
Southern Virginia Vegetable Packing LLC's facility is expected to create 40 jobs
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Southern Virginia Vegetable Packing LLC has partnered with Brunswick County Industrial Development Authority, with plans to build a 45,000-square-foot, $4.2 million produce processing and packing facility that is expected to create 40 jobs over three years, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday. Old Dominion Organic Farms, a member of Southern Virginia Vegetable Packing, will operate the
Charleston developer breaks ground on mixed-use building in Richmond
221 apartments to be built in Manchester neighborhood
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Charleston, South Carolina-based real estate development company The Beach Co. announced Tuesday that it had broken ground on a 1.65-acre mixed-use development in Richmond called Tidewater, which has an expected completion of spring 2023. Located in the Manchester neighborhood at 700 Semmes Ave., the six-story development will have about 266,854 square feet of apartments, about
Tamika Tremaglio leaving Deloitte to head NBA players union
Tremaglio has served as an advisor and consultant to the NBPA since 2012.
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Tamika L. Tremaglio is leaving her post as Deloitte’s Greater Washington managing principal to be the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) union at the end of this year. “I’ve worked with some of the brightest business and legal minds in the world,” she said in a statement. “I’ve broken barriers, challenged
U.Va. opens Northern Virginia campus
UVA|NOVA is in Arlington's Rosslyn neighborhood
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The University of Virginia announced Wednesday it has opened a campus in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, with plans to expand to other sites in the region. The campus in Northern Virginia will be called UVA|NOVA. “UVA|NOVA will be the center point of our efforts to better serve the commonwealth by bringing new academic programming
AES promotes investment chair to CFO
Stephen Coughlin will become CFO and an executive vice president Oct. 15
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Arlington-based Fortune 500 energy company The AES Corp. announced Tuesday it had promoted Stephen Coughlin to executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 15. Coughlin most recently led AES’ corporate strategy and financial planning groups and served as chair of the company’s investment committee. Before that, he was the CEO of Fluence, AES’
Peraton acquires aaS business of Herndon tech company
Peraton acquired ViON Corp.'s as-a-service business Wednesday
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Herndon-based federal contractor Peraton Inc. acquired the as-a-service business of Herndon-based IT company ViON Corp., it announced Wednesday. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Peraton acquired ViON’s cloud business and its employees, adding to its storage, computing and network capacity. The company also acquired the business’s contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense,