On Monday, Oct. 21, The Rose Gaming Resort in Dumfries enjoyed a “soft” opening event that gave the first visitors to take a closer look at the much anticipated gaming location in Dumfries.

"Sustainable forestry provides so many benefits…clean air and water, economic development, wildlife habitat, timber, and recreation,” said Rob Farrell, State Forester of Va. Dept. of Forestry (DOF). “Forest Products Week celebrates Virginia’s working forests, thousands of professionals and partners who work in them, and the environmental benefits and sustainable products they provide for all of us."

This U.K.-based defense management software consulting company will invest $305,000 and create 105 new jobs as it establishes its first US office in Virginia Beach.

Custom building solutions manufacturer VFP, Inc.will invest $5 million and create 50 new jobs in Southwest Virginia to serve the data center market

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace Inc., a global provider of defense and aerospace systems, will invest $71 million to establish a 150,000-square-foot facility in James City County near Williamsburg. The company will invest an additional $30 million in other costs. Virginia successfully competed with two other states for the project, which will create 180+ new jobs, according to the governor. Va. officials pointed to a recent European trade mission as vital to the deal.

Optimum Technologies LLC, which provides space flight hardware design, manufacturing, integration and test, and other space mission systems services and program management, will invest $999,000 to expand its Loudoun County Satellite Manufacturing Facility. The expansion will create 40 new jobs.

Sentara Health, Virginia's largest integrated health system and one of the state’s largest private employers, has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best-In-State Employers in 2024, according to a news release.

The expansion will support Canon’s new initiative to scale a unique method of isolating natural silk protein to create a solution with applications for multiple industries. Canon Virginia, which has been in Newport News for 40 years, will retrain 30 employees to staff the new line.