Kira Jenkins

2 weeks ago | virginiabusiness.com | Matthew Fazelpoor |Kira Jenkins

Summary:Atlantic Shores files to terminate its 1.5-GW offshore wind projectProject faced regulatory, permitting, federal policy hurdlesFiling follows cancellation of key air permit and paused constructionCompany cites future offshore potentialA project that was once supposed to establish the Garden State’s first offshore wind farm has filed to terminate. Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind is a 50/50 partnership between Shell New Energies US LLC and EDF Renewables North America.

3 weeks ago | virginiabusiness.com | Chris Suarez |Kira Jenkins

When Neal Piper’s son, Noah, rang the bell at UVA Children’s Hospital in December 2020, it signaled the end of grueling chemotherapy treatments connected to beeping monitors and intravenous tubes. Five years later, Noah is a healthy third grader who will turn 9 in July, and the biotech business his dad launched, Luminoah, is also thriving.

3 weeks ago | virginiabusiness.com | Ralph Berrier Jr. |Kira Jenkins

SUMMARY:Franchising provides proven business model, launch support for first-time business ownersInternational Franchise Association ranked Virginia as third-best state for franchise growth this yearVirginia’s business-friendly climate supports franchises in several industries, although the food industry accounts for the bulk of franchises nationwide. Economic uncertainty has raised concerns among franchise owners.

3 weeks ago | virginiabusiness.com | Courtney Mabeus-Brown |Kira Jenkins

In a third-floor lab at George Mason University‘s new $107 million Life Sciences and Engineering Building in Manassas, students will dissect and study the effects of decomposition on human remains. A few floors away, their peers may dangle from harnesses while wearing sensors to research gaits while others test fly an autonomous blimp in a two-story aviary.

3 weeks ago | virginiabusiness.com | Courtney Mabeus-Brown |Kira Jenkins

It’s lights out for future large solar projects in Mecklenburg County. The county’s board of supervisors voted unanimously April 14 to remove utility-scale solar projects as an allowable land use, allowing three projects in the application pipeline to continue seeking approval before closing the window to future developments.