Tomorrow, Friday, December 16, is the last day to nominate a local business as the Prince William Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year for 2022.
The chamber’s annual Business Awards will take place on Thursday, February 23, 2023, from 5 to 9:30 p.m. at Heritage Hunt Golf and Country Club, 6901 Arthur Hills Drive in Gainesville.
The store is located at 1172 Garrisonville Road. To mark the occasion, Wawa hosted a grand opening celebration and outdoor ribbon cutting beginning at 9 a.m.
Before the celebration, the new store opened at 8 a.m., when Wawa began distributing limited-edition Wawa “Goose Vibes Only” t-shirts for the first 100 customers. Wawa will also provide free coffee to toast the community as part of the grand-opening celebration through December 18, 2022.
Store owners Cory and Joanna Ellis and Stephen Beecroft say they can’t wait to serve delicious treats to cookie-crazed fans in Crumbl’s postable pink boxes. The store is open from 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. – 12 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
The bakery will create 65 jobs.
The Sudley Road commercial corridor gained more international flair this fall as Sabejo International Market opened in the Canterbury Village Shopping Center.
Sabejo (pronounced Sa-Bay-Joe) took over and renovated a 2,000-square-foot retail space selling groceries, food, toiletries, and other convenience goods.
A total of 107 small businesses opened during the third quarter of the calendar year, which is up sixteen more businesses than the same period in 2021.
Health and Beauty Professional Services once again made the monthly line-up of small businesses located to Prince William County in September 2022.
Granules India Ltd., a pharmaceutical company, will invest $12.5 million to establish a packaging operation in Prince William County.
Granules will lease 79,000 square feet of the Parkway 66 property at 7413 Cushing Road near Manassas and build out packaging lines and clean rooms to package and ship pharmaceuticals. Virginia successfully competed with Maryland for the project, which will create 57 new jobs.
