Tag: alexandria economic development partnership
Council approves American Rescue Plan spending
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
City Council approved the immediate use of $450,000 in American Rescue Plan funding to extend food distribution and housing assistance...
Your Views: A just reopening
To the editor:
I commend the efforts to flatten the curve of the pandemic by the City of Alexandria and its residents, but we must...
Alexandria receives $13.9 million in CARES funding
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
City council unanimously approved plans for residential rental assistance, food security and small business assistance with money the city received...
Ten jurisdictions form Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Ten Northern Virginia localities have joined to form the Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance, the new alliance announced on Monday.
The...
Lost Boy Cider finds a home in Alexandria
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
Lost Boy Cider began when a commercial banker decided to uproot his life and start brewing booze.
It was 2015 when...
How Northern Virginia locked down Amazon HQ2
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
More than 1,000 community members and stakeholders gathered Feb. 28 for an “Amazon HQ2-Apalooza” to learn about the tech giant’s...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Look before you lease
By Bill Reagan
Some of the chief disrupters to businesses’ momentum involve real estate.
First, there’s the challenge of finding the ideal location – appealing and...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: A 21-year resource for small...
The Alexandria Small Business Development Center recently passed its 21year milestone serving the community’s small businesses.
The SBDC plays a complementary economic development role to the Alexandria...
What Asana Partners means for Old Town
By Alexa Epitropoulos | [email protected]
When Charlotte, North Carolina-based Asana Partners closed on its first set of properties in December of last year, it became one of...
Our View: A BID reversal
We applaud the decision by City Manager Mark Jinks to drop consideration of a business improvement district for Old Town. The announcement, made at...
