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    • Third Quarter 2025

    Virginia: Where goods, information, and people converge

    A look into the Commonwealth’s
    infrastructure investments

    This issue of Virginia Economic Review takes an in-depth look at Virginia’s infrastructure and the investments the Commonwealth makes to improve it.

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    Highlights From the Issue

    Multicolored lines laid out to look an interstate exchange

    Built to Deliver

    Virginia’s infrastructure investments underpin business resiliency

    Explore Virginia’s Infrastructure Investments

    Dulles Airport

    The Next Cargo Gateway?

    Strategic cargo play could make Washington Dulles International Airport Virginia’s next step to logistics dominance

    Explore Virginia’s Cargo Logistics

    Stephen Edwards

    The Virginia Model

    A Conversation With Stephen Edwards, CEO and Executive Director, The Port of Virginia

    Learn More About The Port of Virginia

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    Joe Dunlap

    [Virginia] has made some pretty aggressive investments in advance of these industries needing to build out these ecosystems…Clearly, the state is doing a lot of things right.

    Joe Dunlap

    Chief Supply Chain Executive, Legacy Investing (2024 - 2025)

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    Facts & Figures

    Regional Spotlight

    Hampton Roads Region:

    A Center of Commerce for 4 Centuries

    Commercially established in 1607 and home to nearly 2 million residents across 15 localities, life in Hampton Roads ranges from the vibrant city neighborhoods of Norfolk to the sunny oceanfront of Virginia Beach to the rich history of Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. The region has a strong military presence, with 15 military bases providing a steady stream of well-trained potential workers. Hampton Roads has a rich arts culture including the renowned Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, which has presented exhibitions from luminaries including Maya Lin and Kara Walker in recent years.

    Colonial Williamsburg is the world’s largest living history museum, designed to represent life in the area in the 18th century.

    The 35,000-object collection at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk was described by John Russell of The New York Times as “one any museum in the world would kill for.”

    Founded in 1693, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world.

    Military installations in Hampton Roads represent all branches of the U.S. armed forces. Approximately 15,000 active duty personnel transition out of the military each year in the region.

    Newport News Shipbuilding is Virginia’s largest industrial employer and the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy.

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    First Quarter 2025

    This issue explores the robust cybersecurity industry in Virginia and the factors that make the Commonwealth a leader in this crucial industry.

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