Kroger will buy grocery chain Harris Teeter, allowing the Cincinnati-based grocery store chain to enter the Washington, D.C. area market.
Of the 212 stores Kroger will pick up as part of the newly announced $2.5 billion deal, three stores are in Prince William County and one is in Manassas.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — A popular live music venue and cafe in North Stafford will once again close its doors.
Bella Cafe on U.S. 1 in Boswell’s Corner, near Quantico Corporate Center, will close by July 20, according to a post on its Facebook page.
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While it was later than its anticipated opening at the end of March, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill told developers they had planned to open by July 1, said Roadside Development spokesman Jeff Edlestein.
MANASSAS, Va. – The Flory Small Business Center, Inc. continues to offer free workshops to entrepreneurs that are in the start-up phase of their business. The next Start-Up workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, July 5 in Manassas.
A light, continental breakfast is available at 8:30 a.m. The same workshop will be offered on Saturday, August 10 Gainesville. Attendance is free but pre-registration is required to insure adequate materials. Call the Flory Center to pre-register – 703-335-2500.
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MANASSAS, Va. — In the past eight months, the Prince William Chamber of Commerce has expanded its membership base to more than 2,000 businesses.
Nearly 30% of the members who have joined this year are organizations headquartered outside Prince William County, and that has helped the Prince William Chamber surpass the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce as the largest local chamber in Virginia, said President and CEO Robert Clapper.
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — We have a better look at what the Dillingham Square Shopping Center in Lake Ridge will look like when renovations are completed later this year.
The shopping center just off Old Bridge Road will include a new outdoor facade and new landscaping.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — The first prices for new homes in the Potomac Shores neighborhood near Dumfries are out today.
The developer of the 2,000-acre property, California-based SunCal, said the first home sites at the master planned neighborhood are now in development, and their design of the homes are meant to mirror styles seen in areas throughout the Mid-Atlantic region from South Carolina to Delaware, according to a company spokesman.
LORTON, Va. — Sentara Healthcare’s footprint in Northern Virginia is expanding.
This week, the massive healthcare provider that is deeply rooted in Hampton Roads, and then later expanded to Woodbridge, has opened a new center in Lorton.
In the process to relocate the FBI’s national headquarters to Virginia, it appears the CIA was here first.
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and members of a bipartisan congressional delegation in April unanimously chose a site in Fairfax County next to the Franconia-Springfield Metro Station for the new FBI headquarters. Now home to a massive warehouse owned by the General Services Administration, State officials assured the federal government the site has quick access to transit, and to Interstates 95, 395, and the Capital Beltway, and would meet criteria set forth by the General Services Administration.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. – Could new Apple Store be headed for Woodbridge?
The website, MacRumors, suggests Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center is ripe for such a computer outlet, and judging by job postings on Apple’s website, they say a new store could open in the new mixed-use shopping center before Christmas.
