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Eastern Virginia


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Jefferson Lab is one of two contenders for collider by Joan Tupponce


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eff erson Lab in Newport News hopes the


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About 1,400 scientists from around the world currently conduct research at the Jefferson Lab.


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by researchers to understand what lies inside a nucleus and what holds it together. “It’s a fundamental knowledge that may have no practical importance for 100 or 200 years,” says Andrew Hutton, as- sociate director of the accelerator division at Jeff erson Lab. “It’s pure long-term research.” “At Jeff erson,


Energy will give it the go-ahead to build a $1 billion electron-ion collider. T e facility,


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BAE Systems has notified about 530 employees at its Norfolk shipyard that they could be laid off in March. This workforce reduction, scheduled to take place around March 18, follows 400 layoffs at the shipyard late last year. The Norfolk shipyard employs about 1,075 workers. “These further reductions are necessary to align the Norfolk shipyard with lower demand for its services,” the company said in a news release. (VirginiaBusiness.com)


Cincinnati-based retailer Macy’s Inc. has announced the closing of six Virginia stores. Three are in the Richmond area and another three are in Hampton Roads. The stores are among 40 stores that the company is closing nationwide as it tries to reduce expenses by $500


formally known as the T omas Jeff erson National Accelerator Facility, is one of two vying for the project. Brookhaven National Laboratory in New


million. The stores in Virginia that are scheduled to close employ nearly 500 workers. They are in Chesapeake, Hampton, Norfolk and Henrico County. (VirginiaBusiness.com)


Mitsubishi Kagaku Imaging Corp. planned to lay off 83 people in Chesapeake, starting in January. In a news release, the California-based company, also known as Future Graphics, said it will close its monochrome toner plant on Volvo Parkway in Chesapeake in March. (The Virginian-Pilot)


The Virginia Beach firm Poole Mahoney PC spun off its family-law practice and changed its name to Poole Brooke Plumlee PC on Jan 1. The new family law firm is Mahoney Nashatka Richmond PLLC. It has five lawyers and is located next to Poole Brooke Plumlee.


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we have an electron machine and would like to add an ion complex. In Brookhaven, they have an ion collider, and would like to add an electron complex,” Hutton says. “We see this as our future, and they see it as their future.” T e Department


of Energy is expected to take three years to make its decision,


Among those joining Mahoney in the new firm are partners Shantell Nashatka and Andrew Richmond. (VirginiaBusiness. com)


Hampton Roads’ first meadery, Silver Hand Meadery, opened its doors in Williamsburg on Nov. 21. It produces a honey- based alcoholic drink, which was popular in the Middle Ages. (Daily Press)


Portsmouth-based TowneBank plans to acquire Chesapeake- based Monarch Financial Holdings Inc., the parent company of Monarch Bank, in a deal worth $220.6 million. The acquisition would create a $7.3 billion bank with 20.6 percent of bank deposits in the Hampton Roads market. The merger is subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. (VirginiaBusiness.com)


but preparations in Newport News already have begun. T e city will provide land for the Jeff erson Lab to expand and “to build the electron-ion col- lier should that [bid] be successful,” says Newport News City Manager Jim Bourey. T e collider proj-


ect construction would cost about $1 bil- lion, he says. T e city expects the economic impact for the region will be approximately $4 billion, with the creation of more than 4,000 jobs, most of them in construction or skilled labor posi- tions, over 10 years. T e city owns half


of the 16 acres that would be provided for the lab for its expan- sion. T e remaining half is owned by the Newport News school district, which now has an operations and


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Steven L. Brinker, joined the law firm Crenshaw, Ware & Martin PLC in Norfolk as partner. He will chair the firm’s Business Law Practice Group. (News release)


Lloyd DeWitt, named chief curator and Irene Leache Curator of European Art of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. DeWitt


has been curator of European art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto since 2011. He will begin his new role this spring. (News release)


Newport News-based PBMares LLP has named three new partners: Jennifer French, a tax manager in the Williamsburg office; Todd Swisher, a senior


transportation service center on the property. It would be relocated. About 1,400 sci-


entists from around the world do research at the lab, helping to boost the local economy. “T ey live here when they do their research,” says Robert McKeown, the lab’s deputy director for science. Newport News’


technology sector is on an upswing. “One hundred thirty years ago, Newport News was on the map be- cause of the shipyard [now known as New- port News Shipbuild- ing]. Now people look at it for Jeff erson Lab and high technology,” Hutton says, noting an accompanying change from a blue-collar to a more high-tech workforce. “My job is to make sure Virgin- ians are proud that we are here.”


assurance manager in the firm’s Richmond office; and Dan Chenoweth, a tax manager in the Newport News office. (VirginiaBusiness.com)


Wilkes Graham, named chief financial officer, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Virginia Beach. He succeeds Steven Belote, who will remain with the company as its chief operating officer. Graham was director of research and senior sell-side equity research analyst with Compass Point Research & Trading LLC in Washington, D.C. (VirginiaBusiness.com)


J.D. Myers II, named senior vice president and region manager of Cox Virginia, Chesapeake, after serving in the role on an interim basis. Myers succeeds Gary McCollum, who resigned to run for state Senate. (Daily Press)


Photo courtesy Jefferson Lab


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