Economic healing
Petersburg aims to become pharma hub
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Over the years, Petersburg has become accustomed to bad economic news. After Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Petersburg’s largest employer for decades, left the city in 1985, Petersburg suffered an
2021 Virginia Business Person of the Year: Bruce Thompson
Gold Key | PHR CEO realizes Cavalier Resort vision
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Standing on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the Cavalier Hotel is a callback to a time when Virginia Beach was a sleepy little resort town inside Princess Anne County.
Program aims to boost Latino entrepreneurship
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Arlene Guzman had a small restaurant in Puerto Rico, but “I never felt like I had the training” to be an entrepreneur, she says through a bilingual interpreter. “This is
GreenCity arena hopes to draw sports, music acts
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When developers unsuccessfully pitched Navy Hill, a $1.5 billion mixed-use project and arena that sought to reinvent Richmond’s downtown, they posed a question: If a major draw like Beyoncé came
Roanoke region anticipates outdoor events boon
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For more than a century, Roanoke has been known as a rail town. But in recent years, the city has endeavored to rebrand itself as a trail town. Since 2008,
Chesterfield eyes zoning overhaul to boost development
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In 1980, developer George Emerson stood in a wooded area of Chesterfield County’s Bermuda district and told a contractor where he wanted to build a road. Without any formal plan
Mary Baldwin to launch nursing practice doctorate
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You could say Christina Feggans-Langston was destined to become a nurse. “I was named Christina after one of the nurses that my mom had when she was delivering me,” says
Banking on bitcoin
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While MicroStrategy may be hogging the bitcoin limelight lately, two other Virginia companies recently made their entrances onto the cryptocurrency stage. On Feb. 3, Charlottesville-based Blue Ridge Bankshares Inc., the
The Prophet
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor preaches the bitcoin gospel. Will his $2.2 billion gambit reap a heavenly reward?
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When Michael Saylor was a younger man, his good looks and cocky attitude drew comparisons to Tom Cruise. And like Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Cruise’s flying ace of “Top Gun”
Cavalier Resort takes shape in Virginia Beach
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In 1975, Bruce Thompson was the night watchman and grass cutter at Virginia Beach’s Cavalier Hotel. Today, he’s transforming the hotel and its 21 surrounding acres into a major mid-Atlantic