April 2022

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Hitting a brick wall

Climbing housing costs pose workforce challenges

Casey Renner has worked in four states over the course of her teaching career, and she’s never liked a school more than Arlington County’s Wakefield High School, where she teaches…

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Opinion

Virginia Business Editor Richard Foster

Rising to the challenges

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Last summer, as I was eating dinner at a Norfolk bar with a group of my Lead Virginia classmates from far Southwest Virginia, one of them asked what decision makers…

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Arlington Housing Director Anne Venezia stands in front of Crystal House, an affordable housing apartment community purchased through the assistance of Amazon.com Inc.’s Housing Equity Fund. Photo by Will Schermerhorn

Primed for affordable housing

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Virginia Housing CEO Susan Dewey says Amazon.com Inc.’s $2.5 billion-plus HQ2 East Coast headquarters under construction in Arlington created a “launching pad” for awareness of the link between adequate, affordable…

Blue Ridge President Carrie McConnell says CNB Bank “likes midsized cities that are growing, and Roanoke is growing.” Photo by Natalee Waters

Ridge View banks on Roanoke region

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Drawn by the Blue Ridge’s “blue-collar atmosphere,” a new bank has set up shop in the Roanoke region. Ridge View Bank, a division of Pennsylvania-based CNB Bank, opened for business…

The pandemic and changing student attitudes have prompted Virginia Union University and other institutions to offer more classes online, says the school’s provost, Terrell Strayhorn. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown

Private accounts

Independent colleges aim for healthy enrollment

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One of Terrell Strayhorn’s first assignments as Virginia Union University’s provost was to win final approval for graduate programs seen as a key mechanism for enrollment growth. It was the…

A planned $200 million redevelopment at Virginia Beach’s Pembroke Mall will include a five-story, 314-unit apartment building. Rendering courtesy Kahler Slater

Pembroke Mall to get makeover

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Hanging out at the mall may soon take on new meaning in Virginia Beach. Within a few years, Pembroke Mall could be home to thousands of apartment dwellers as part…

FOR THE RECORD

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CENTRAL VIRGINIA  AutoZone Inc. plans to build a $185.2 million warehouse and distribution center in New Kent County, creating 352 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced in February. The 800,000-square-foot facility…

This is a pivotal time for electric utilities such as Dominion Energy, which are upgrading power grids and systems to accommodate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Photo by Mark Rhodes

Power plays

Grid upgrades, renewable energy on horizon

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Virginia’s largest electric utilities are deploying an array of technologies as they decarbonize, digitalize and decentralize their power grids to meet the state’s and their own clean energy goals. Richmond-based…

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