Virginia Business - March 2005

IssueCOVER STORY
Women- and minority-owned businesses gaining attention

Crewstone Technologies, Hampton

Twist & Turns, Roanoke

DNDS Inc., Henrico County

Tessada & Associates, Springfield

Facts & Figures

REGIONAL REPORT
Keeping workers at home
Will a changing economy and a proposed university hellp Southside retain its best and brightest?

Affordability and push to attract technology lands Luna nanoWorks

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Turning research into products
Techmology transfer provides boost to business, revenue for universities

GOLF
Business meetings tee up profits for Virginia courses

Golf course architect is at top of his game

Business-friendly golf courses
A list of some of our favorite places to golf

PUBLISHER'S PROFILE
Dr. Randy Boxx
A talk with the dean of Shenandoah Unviersity's Harry F. Byrd Jr. School of Business

Special Section
List of Leaders
Our annual ranking of the top companies in Virginia

Virginia Stat

$458,200
Average assessed value of a single-family home in Arlington County, an increase of 24 percent since last year and 70 percent since 2002.

DEPARTMENTS VB_TITLE
Editor's Corner
- Change and opportunity

Around the Old Dominion
- Working on the railroad again
- Knitting profits
- Economic development agencies merge
- Harrisonburg goes high tech
- Virginia cities cited as technology leaders
- Verizon to acquire MCI

Virginia Ideas
- The importance of business ethics

Commercial Real Estate Quarterly
- Trends: Virginia creates new division to manage state's real estate portfolio
- Top Honors
- The art of the deal
- Transactions
- Market overview
- What's going up

Followups
An update on companies and trends featured in recent issues:
- Virginia airports
- Riggs National Corp.
- Marsh & McClennan Cos.

For the Record
Mergers & acqusitions Cutbacks, closings Stocks, financing
Deals Products, services Legal, regulatory
New plants Divestitures Noteworthy
People Expansions  
Contracts Real estate