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A sampling of Virginia's economic
development announcements in 2006
Virginia Business
August 2007 SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
Dickenson County: $203.5 million expansion of natural
gas and well operations for Equitable Resources,
30 jobs.
Galax: $500,000 investment in the XM Satellite Radio
customer service center for The Results Cos., 255
jobs.
Russell County: Expansion of AT&T's (formerly
Cingular Wireless) customer service center, 135 jobs.
Wise County: $1.1 million expansion of Visador Holding
Corp.'s new vinyl windows warehouse and distribution
center in St. Paul, 100 jobs.
VALLEY
Augusta County: $25 million expansion of The Hershey
Co.'s chocolate manufacturing plant, 150 jobs.
Botetourt County: $3 million expansion of Altec Industries
Inc.'s mobile equipment manufacturing plant, 100
jobs.
Frederick County: $18 million expansion of Trex Co.
Inc.'s wood and plastic composite lumber, 140 jobs.
Harrisonburg: $115 million for a new secure data center
for Criticon Corp., 25 jobs.
Rockingham County: $12.5 million development of the
Center for Advanced Drug Research Center for SRI International,
100 jobs.
SOUTHERN PIEDMONT
Bedford County: expansion of Barr Laboratories Inc.'s
Virginia office, 100 jobs.
Charlotte County: $3.5 million for Alderman Rail Car
Services' new repair and fabrication shop for the railcar
industry in the Charlotte County Industrial Park in Keysville,
110 new jobs.
Danville: $1.1 million expansion into Danville's historic
Tobacco Warehouse District by Horizontech Inc. for a
sales and programming office and document storage warehouse,
adding 100 jobs.
Pittsylvania County: $20 million for a new Essential
Technology Center for Matrix Technologies Inc., 500 jobs.
Pittsylvania County: $281 million furniture manufacturing
facility for Swedwood North America, a subsidiary of
IKEA, 740 jobs.
NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Culpeper County: $270 million over five to seven years
for a data center campus for Terremark Worldwide Inc.,
creating 250 jobs.
Fairfax: American Systems Corp. added 215 jobs to its
headquarters.
Loudoun County: $8.2 million expansion of K2M LLC's
spinal medical device manufacturing plant, 249 jobs.
Stafford County: GEICO Insurance regional office expansion,
790 jobs.
CENTRAL VIRGINIA
Chesterfield County: Expansion of Pearson Government
Solutions' call center, 160 jobs.
Henrico County: $4.58 million expansion of Bostwick
Laboratories' headquarters and pathology reference laboratory,
creating 600 jobs.
Lynchburg: $2.5 million expansion of Tessy Plastics
LLC's manufacturing plant, 120 jobs.
HAMPTON ROADS
Hampton: $1 million investment by modeling and simulation
company Science Systems and Applications Inc., 230 jobs.
Newport News: $1 million expansion of Icelandic USA
Inc.'s U.S. headquarters, 182 jobs.
Norfolk: $500,000 expansion for Computerized Imaging
Reference Systems, 18 jobs.
Portsmouth: $3.2 million distribution center for coffee
manufacturer Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA, 160 jobs.
Southampton County: $3.4 million warehouse and distribution
campus for Southampton Terminal LLC, 300 jobs.
Suffolk: $4 million expansion of media services company
Echostorm Worldwide LLC, 100 jobs.
Virginia Beach: $1 million expansion of Hapag-Lloyd's
containerized shipping and distribution center, 42 jobs.
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