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Warner condemns FBI HQ site selection in Md. as ‘corrupt’
FBI director, Youngkin, other Va. officials decry override by former GSA official
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said Thursday that the FBI headquarters site selection — choosing Greenbelt, Maryland, over Springfield — was “corrupt” and that he expected better from the Biden administration.
Newport News Shipbuilding expands to Norfolk
Satellite campus is at Fairwinds Landing
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With the largest workload it’s had in four decades, Newport News Shipbuilding has had to get creative about how to use the limited footprint at its shipyard in Newport News.
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Glass manufacturing operation to create 659 jobs in Prince George
PGT Innovations to invest $54.3M to revamp former Rolls-Royce site
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PGT Innovations, a Florida-based manufacturer and supplier of windows and doors, will invest $54.3 million to establish a glass manufacturing operation in the former Rolls-Royce facility in Prince George County’s
$14.9M manufacturing facility coming to Russell County
Data center supplier Tate to create 170 jobs
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Tate, a data center supplier, will invest $14.9 million to establish a new manufacturing facility in Russell County, creating 170 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. The new plant will
SWVA clean energy development could draw $8.5B in investments
65K acres of former mine lands to be redeveloped, Youngkin announces
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Wise County and neighboring localities in Southwest Virginia may become home to a massive clean energy development that could attract up to $8.25 billion in capital investments, Gov. Glenn Youngkin
Food/bev distributor opens $275M Caroline County center
World Class Distribution ups hiring plans to 1,000
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Food and beverage distributor World Class Distribution has opened its nearly finished $275 million, 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center in Caroline County with 400 employees, the county’s board of supervisors announced
High cost, higher rewards
Inflation prompts upgrades for meetings, venues
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Michael Meyers is always looking for an advantage. Like many in the meetings industry, the Greater Richmond Convention Center’s general manager has seen his facility’s costs spike from inflation. Likewise,
Coming into focus
VEDP hones its economic development strategy
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In 2016, amid concerns over how the Virginia Economic Development Partnership was being run, the General Assembly directed Virginia’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to examine VEDP’s organizational management
Massive foundation posts arrive for Dominion’s offshore wind farm
Eight 272-foot monopiles reach Portsmouth from Germany
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The first eight monopiles, the wind-turbine foundation posts for Dominion Energy’s $9.8 billion offshore wind farm, arrived at Portsmouth Marine Terminal on Oct. 19, and state officials and Dominion executives
Richmond-Petersburg pharma coalition wins fed designation
Could receive $70M in funding
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Central Virginia’s pharmaceutical hub received a federal designation that could lead to millions in federal funding in the future, while a 3D printing consortium in the New River Valley and