Virginia

Commercial Real Estate

10 development projects to watch in Northern Virginia

Big development projects routinely take years or decades to come into their own, even when pandemics don’t turn the world upside-down partway

Food & Beverage

Desi Fresh Foods to open plant in Frederick County, Va.

RICHMOND, VA — Governor Glenn Youngkin announced that Desi Fresh Foods, a leading U.S. producer of dahi, or South Asian yogurt, and

Technology

Chuck Kuhn sinks $141M into assembling Manassas sites for data centers

Real estate mogul Chuck Kuhn is assembling properties in Manassas for data center development, with the total acquisition cost so far sitting

Virginia

Amazon data center arm buys Sterling campus for $136M

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has acquired a data center campus in Sterling for $135.75 million, a price that looks to be well below

Manufacturing

Liebherr to expand Newport News-Hampton, Va. facility

Newport News-based Liebherr Mining Equipment will invest $72.3 million to expand a plant at the border of Newport News and Hampton, creating

Community Development

Amazon was a top target for Atlanta’s Gulch. Now it’s entertainment, hotels

It might have been the apex of the idea that Big Tech can revitalize cities. Seven years ago, Amazon.com Inc. launched a sweepstakes for

Virginia

Troubled Southwest Virginia draws promise of help from Youngkin, lawmakers

RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced plans for an economic development initiative in Southwest Virginia, a region still struggling with the loss

Energy

Va. went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules.

Four years ago, Fairfax County announced a landmark clean energy plan to install solar panels on more than 100 buildings including schools, community centers

Virginia

Former Northern Va. economic official sentenced in embezzlement case

HARRISONBURG, Va. — The former director of a local economic development authority in Virginia who was accused of embezzling $5.2 million through

Energy

Advocates see missed opportunities as Virginia lags its neighbors in clean energy manufacturing

When the nonprofit Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) began tracking where financial incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act were spurring clean energy manufacturing growth