Livability.com ranks Charlottesville as the #22 best city to live in for 2022 in America. This is the second year Charlottesville has enjoyed a top place ranking coming in at #5 in 2021. Metrics contributing to the ranking were civics, … Continue reading
Avondale Décor, LLC, an affiliate of Allied Brass in Louisa county, has graduated from the Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) program sponsored by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP), announced Governor Glenn Youngkin today. The VALET program equips companies … Continue reading
CloudHQ is a global data center provider that will lease space to businesses of all sizes. CloudHQ selected a 98-acre parcel in the McDevitt Technology Zone in Culpeper, Virginia, for their 2.1M sq ft campus-style data center facility. CloudHQ currently … Continue reading
On June 13, 2022, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced eleven Agriculture and Forestry Industry Development (AFID) awards grants for Virginia food and farming projects – two of which are in Central Virginia. Deep Roots Milling in Nelson County, a founding member … Continue reading
A family-owned meat processing facility in Madison County was awarded a $40,000 grant to aid in expansion of year-round operations, creating at least seven new jobs for the region. Governor Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday, that Hidden Pines Meat Processing, LLC, … Continue reading
The University of Virginia Medical Center was ranked No. 1 as Virginia’s top hospital in Newsweek’s “World’s Best Hospitals 2022” guide. Scoring a 69.99%, the Charlottesville-based hospital also ranked No. 42 in the U.S. and is among the top 250 … Continue reading
Virginia was ranked as the 2021 State of the Year for Overall Best Business Climate by Business Facilities. “For the first time, we thought it was appropriate to name three winners in this prestigious process,” BF Editorial Director Seth Mendelson said in the … Continue reading
RIVANNA®, the developers of imaging-based medical solutions, announced Wednesday it will invest $260,000 to renovate its facility in Albemarle County, creating 18 new jobs. The money will be used to conduct a “large-scale renovation” and more than double its workforce. … Continue reading
More than 40,000 unserved locations in 14 localities will soon have fiber broadband access — seven of which are within the Central Virginia Partnership’s region. When completed, all nine of the Partnership’s localities will have full broadband coverage. Governor Northam … Continue reading
Sixty-four new jobs will be coming to Albemarle County as Bonumose Inc. expands its facility thanks to a recent partnership with the Hershey Company. The rare sugar company plans to invest $27.7 million to the county. Bonumose will relocate into … Continue reading