The ACTS Thrift Store in Dumfries reopened this month after going being renovated.
The store now boasts new interior paint, exterior paint, a new store layout, and a newly paved parking lot, according to a press release.
Business
Boston Market, a national fast casual chain specializing in rotisserie chicken and home style meals, will open its second restaurant in Prince William County on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 in the food court at Potomac Mills mall.
The Potomac Mills opening is a progression of the fast-casual chain’s desired expansion into the non-traditional segment of the restaurant industry.
Over 450 jobseekers participate in area’s first independently organized job fair
When local business and industry leaders shared the struggles they were having in filling current job openings, a small group of citizens, led by Manassas City Councilman Ian Lovejoy, embraced the challenge to identify workers capable of filling the void.
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An open house and ribbon cutting will take place at a new walk-in health center near Manassas.
Inova Urgent Care Center – Manassas will open November 2. An open house and ribbon cutting will be held October 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Apple Federal Credit Union will open the doors on its new banking center in Stafford next month.
The credit union will move from its current location at Doc Stone Commons to Stafford Marketplace in North Stafford, near Starbucks. The move will afford the bank an easier-to-find location, and one that is visible to more drivers on busy Garrisonville Road.
A new “at home – The Home Decor Superstore” will open next week at Manassas Mall.
The new store will sit in the old JC Penney location, and will take up 84,000 square feet of floor space. The Manassas store will be the fourth in Virginia. Other “at home” stores are located in Chesapeake, Chesterfield, and Richmond.
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A Walmart Neighborhood Market will be built in North Stafford.
The store will set next to a Sheetz gas station under construction on the corner of Garrisonville and Furnace roads. The Stafford County Board of Supervisors approved a special use permit to allow the store to have a drive-through window to allow customers to drop off and pick up prescriptions at the store’s pharmacy.
Job seekers in Manassas are in luck.
The Greater Manassas Community Job Fair will be held Thursday, Oct. 13, from 1 to 6 p.m. inside the gymnasium at Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church, located at 8712 Planation Lane in Manassas.
Manassas is in talks with a developer to create the city’s first waterfront destination.
The focus is 40 acres of land that sits along Gateway Boulevard, between Godwin Drive and Prince William Parkway. A Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office sits on the land.
Stafford County wants to give entrepreneurs a place to work, and to hire a new director to oversee an new business incubator.
County officials want to invest $385,000 in a new coworking space at Quantico Corporate Center, dubbed “Tech Park,” to house start-up businesses. It’s part of an ongoing effort dating back to 2010 where George Mason and Mary Washington universities, and Germanna Community College signed an MOU to explore the possibilities of classes, services, research, and economic development to what is today known as the Stafford Technology and Research Park located in the corporate center.