April 2015

Cover Story

The new Midtown Tunnel

Promising relief for motorists, the $2.1 billion job is the state’s most extensive public-private project to date

Promising relief for motorists, the new U.S. 58 Midtown Tunnel project is the state’s most extensive public-private project to date.

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Interview

Mission minded

Transplant network CEO is drawn to complicated challenges

Interview with Brian M. Shepard
CEO, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
Richmond

Opinion

From This Issue

Road work

Some highways are getting a tuneup in Virginia

Road projects

Setting a future course

Defense contractors are pursuing new markets — and winning new business

Defense contractors are pursuing new markets — and winning new business.

Face of the future

Major manufacturers add clout to growing research center

Since its inception in 2011, CCAM has made significant gains.

The city’s anchor

VCU has a been a big factor in Richmond’s revival

Virginia College Profile: Virginia Commonwealth University

A collegiate ‘Shark Tank’

Universities host entrepreneurship competitions to sharpen business skills

Universities across the country are turning students into entrepreneurs through competitions that require participants to pitch their product or business to a panel of judges.

Conscious capitalism

Container Store CEO doesn’t see business as a zero-sum game

Conscious capitalism centers on treating all of a company’s stakeholders — including employees, vendors, customers, shareholders — with respect.

Industrial gets sexy

With supply limited, Virginia’s location is pushing demand

The market for industrial space continues to improve in the Richmond region as well as in Virginia’s other major urban markets.