Tag: amazon
Amazon opens second headquarters in Virginia
By Amy Will
Business is up and running, 8,000 employees are already hard at work and a curious community has gotten a taste of the...
City Council approves $10.5 million loan for Arlandria affordable housing project
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
City Council unanimously approved a $10.5 million loan to help fund the first phase of development on the Alexandria Housing...
Wesley Housing purchases Chirilagua property to expand affordable housing options
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Wesley Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, announced on Tuesday that it had acquired Parc Square Apartments in Chirilagua with...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Gold standard collaboration
While we wince at the scorched-earth chaos at the national level, there’s a contrasting sense of civility, collaboration and productivity in Northern Virginia and...
Amazon HQ2, VT Innovation Campus plans advance
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced some developers to hit the pause button or reevaluate their timelines, but two major projects...
Virginia Tech advisory board to include national industry leaders
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Virginia Tech is forming an advisory board composed of business and industry leaders from around the country to provide direction...
Your Views: City must protect renters
To the editor:
While Amazon booms, our neighbors are in danger of going bust. Many hard-working Alexandria residents find themselves with no income and have...
Your Views: Alexandria is too densely populated
To the editor:
Do we really need more density? Alexandria is already the most densely populated jurisdiction in Virginia and the D.C. metro area. The...
City council adopts new housing goals
By Luke Anderson | [email protected]
With Amazon’s HQ2 and Virginia Tech’s Innovation Campus coming to the region, the city is proposing new housing goals to...
Amazon donates $200,000 to ACT Now COVID-19 Response Fund
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
Amazon announced that it will donate $200,000 to the ACT Now Fund, an ACT for Alexandria emergency fund that will...
