Business

UVA football player Donovan Platt is a host, and video shooting began during this bye weekend on a social media show which is part of a new UVA Athletics venture called Corner Media Co.

The facility will be way up in northern Albemarle, but Charlottesville city leaders attended Thursday’s AstraZeneca groundbreaking excited about the opportunities it will generate for the city.

Federal, state, and local leaders all converged on Rivanna Futures in Albemarle County for groundbreaking on a $4.5-billion AstraZeneca pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, a historical development in the area.

UVA Health’s Community Paramedicine team is getting boost from the donation of a new vehicle by Carter Myers Automotive.

Peter Chang’s China Grill, the Szechuan restaurant in the Barrack’s Shopping Center famous for delivering heat and flavor, is closing this month.

The Board of Supervisors will vote to pause the effort amidst uncertainty over potential future statewide legislation and pushback from local environmental groups.

The company’s $200 million, 285,000-square foot sterile injectable manufacturing facility is expected to create 200 new jobs.

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears said the job growth she believes the current administration has helped fuel in the Commonwealth would continue if she’s elected governor. 

Albemarle County staff will update the Board of Supervisors October 1 on data center zoning and will recommend pausing consideration of new regulations and any potential overlay districts.

Guinness World Records officially verified on Sept. 10 that Henry Chiles had received the record for heaviest peach, with his fruit weighing in at 1 lb. 13 oz.