Planting the flag
As a new decade dawns, Amazon scales up for HQ2
• Amazon’s twin towers coming in 2023 • HQ2 “base camp” office opened in September • 400+ workers hired; 24,500+ to go In November 2018, Virginia won big — really big — when Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. chose Arlington County as one of two locations where it would build operations for its planned East Coast
Approaching equality
2020 marks a record year for female legislators in Virginia
Women may make up more than half of Virginia’s population, but their presence in the statehouse has always fallen far short of parity. This year’s election brought a seismic change, however. Rachel Bitecofer, assistant director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, says that women now hold 41 of the General
The place for placemaking
Fairfax County is NoVa’s epicenter for development
Local leaders realized that they needed to get serious about diversifying their economy, and the result has been an ambitious, two-pronged plan to refashion Fairfax into a center of the knowledge economy.
Cities from scratch
Major developments are transforming Northern Virginia’s landscape
Back to the future?
Unlikely allies call for deregulation, but Virginia’s been here before
A bank by any other name would be more popular
Picking new ID is nearly always met with scorn
Amazon HQ2 prompts more cloud computing degrees
Amazon HQ2 prompts more cloud computing degrees
Litehouse purchases Danville’s Sky Valley Foods
Litehouse purchases Danville’s Sky Valley Foods
Amazon HQ2 may spark hotel, restaurant, retail surge
Amazon HQ2 may spark hotel, restaurant, retail surge in Northern Virginia
Richmond tourism industry promotes LGBTQ inclusivity
Richmond tourism industry promotes LGBTQ inclusivity