Chesterfield County has been named the top city in the East for operating a new distribution warehouse based on a  corporate site selection study.

 The study, done by The Boyd Co., a Princeton, N.J.-based firm that provides location counsel to U. S. and overseas corporations, compares the cost of operating a new distribution warehouse in a series of 25 U.S. cities named as the Most Logistics Friendly.

 

Operating costs in the study are scaled to a representative 500,000 square-foot distribution center employing 150 workers. The 2015 analysis includes several
geographically-variable factors critical to the corporate site selection process such as labor, real estate, construction, taxes, utilities and shipping. 

 

The last year has seen many forward strides in terms of transportation and infrastructure.

First and foremost, a decision on the U.S. Route 460 improvement project was made. In February, the Commonwealth Transportation Board settled on improving a 17-mile stretch of the U.S. 460 corridor from Suffolk to west Zuni instead of building a new 55-mile highway from Prince George County to Suffolk.