Cover Story
The rise of the millennials
As boomers exit, the 2020s will see America’s largest generation dominate the workplace
Millennials include everyone born between 1981 and 1996, which, at 73 million, surpassed the aging baby boomers this year as our largest living generation.
Interview
Betting on success
The Pamunkey tribe has high hopes for its planned Norfolk casino
Robert Gray, chief of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, talks heritage, federal recognition and casino plans.
Opinion
A tale of two economies
Inside View: Nowhere are millennials needed more than in small-town America.
From This Issue
Excella Extension Center plans expansion
The spinoff company, set to open by the end of this year, will be based at the Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg.
Innovation engine
GMU strives to jump-start high-reward ideas, feed tech pipeline
Emergent Ventures is a step toward making “moonshots a reality,” Tyler Cowen, faculty director of the Mercatus Center, said when the program was announced in July 2018.
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High-powered marketing initiative InvestSWVA launches in coal country
With a timeline of two years, InvestSWVA has $800,000 in funding from various sources.
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.
Altria brings IQOS heated tobacco product to U.S.
The tobacco giant starts a new venture with spinoff company Philip Morris International Inc.
Passenger numbers taking off at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport
After changing its commercial flight provider in April 2018 to Utah-based SkyWest, the airport saw its passenger numbers climb immediately.
Alexandria searches for solution to Potomac Yard Metro station access
Although the state announced an additional $50 million in funding for improved access, a solution has yet to be found.
Northern Neck set for its first multiscreen movie theater in 2020
Compass Entertainment Complex will be built on seven acres of a 22-acre wooded lot between the towns of Kilmarnock and Irvington.
Mecklenburg co-op aids regional broadband expansion
High-speed fiber-optic internet service still eludes about 50% of Virginians, but the state’s Southside region is making progress.
A strong defense
Cybersecurity is a top concern for Virginia’s CPAs
Virginia Society of CPAs’ 2020 Virginia Economic Expectations Survey