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Registration is now open for Virginia's Gateway Region 53rd Annual Meeting! Please join us on March 27, 2014 in celebrating the power of partnerships and another year of regional job growth. We will also be welcoming keynote speaker Jamie Womack of CareerBuilder. 
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Calling all creatives and entrepreneurs! The Hopewell Downtown Partnership will host Ignite Hopewell,an event to help spur new ideas and new businesses in a unique format, including presenters who will share their projects, ideas, and passions. There will also be a contest, in which the winner will be awarded a $2,500 grant. Register now! 
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Contracting business comes to Dinwiddie
Staff Reports | The Progress-Index  | Full Story 

DINWIDDIE - A general contracting business has purchased a 25-acre site that will bring 25 new jobs and a $5 million investment to Dinwiddie County.

 

G.A. & F.C. Wagman Inc., a general contracting business, purchased the 25-acre site on Simpson Road that will include a 10,000-square-foot warehouse, storage space and 5,000 square feet for company offices, the county announced Thursday. County records do not indicate how much the company purchased the property for.

 

Specializing in heavy civil and transportation infrastructure construction, the company has partnered to complete the design and construction of over $1 billion worth of transportation projects, according to the company website. It is a fourth generation, family-owned private business with a history that stretches back to 1902. 

Amazon to hire 1,000 locally
John Reid Blackwell | Richmond Times Dispatch | Full Story

Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday it is hiring for nearly 1,000 full-time jobs at its two fulfillment centers in Chesterfield County and Dinwiddie County.

 

The local hiring is part of a larger program to add 2,500 full-time jobs at some of its U.S. fulfillment centers, which are distribution plants where the company stores and ships customer orders.

 

The Seattle-based company said jobs are available in picking, packing and shipping at the local fulfillment centers.

 

In addition to hiring at the local sites, the company said it is filling jobs at fulfillment centers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Kansas and Washington.