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Chesterfield’s new tech park already generating buzz
Chesterfield County Economic Director Garrett Hart received an inquiry about Upper Magnolia Green a week after the county announced in 2020 that it had purchased the property with the intent
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Lego breaks ground on $1B Chesterfield facility
Plant will be Danish toymaker's first U.S. manufacturing site
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The Lego Group broke ground Thursday on its $1 billion Chesterfield County manufacturing facility — launching the Danish toymaker’s first U.S. manufacturing plant and one of Virginia’s biggest economic development
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The top five most-read daily news stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from Feb. 14 to March 13 included an update on the Lego Group’s Chesterfield County factory, which is expected to begin
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Building blocks
Manufacturing, pharma lead area deals
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If you ask economic development officials in Central Virginia about 2022, they might respond with a familiar slogan: “Everything is awesome.” With almost 5,000 announced jobs and $1.6 billion in
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State workforce program speeds company timelines
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One thing Brian Dail noticed as he spent a day and a half in February 2020 participating in step van manufacturer Morgan Olson’s new hire training in Loudon, Tennessee, was
Lego to hire 500 Chesterfield employees by year’s end
Toymaker plans to hire 60 production workers by June
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The Lego Group plans to hire approximately 500 people for its $1 billion Chesterfield County manufacturing facility by the end of this year, according to the Danish toymaker’s head of
Everything is not awesome
Why Virginia lags the South in big industrial deals
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When Lego Group representatives toured Chesterfield County’s Meadowville Technology Park on a winter day early this year, they didn’t speak. As with most industrial site visits, the county economic development
Lego to build $1B factory in Chesterfield
Meadowville Technology Park facility will employ 1,760+ workers
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It’s highly unlikely that it will be built from brightly colored plastic bricks, but the Lego Group will be bringing a $1 billion toy manufacturing plant to Chesterfield County’s Meadowville