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Amazon has announced plans to build a 650,000-square-foot fulfillment center and a 219,000-square-foot delivery station in Virginia Beach Beach, which are collectively expected to produce more than 1,000 jobs.

Doug Smith, Hampton Roads Alliance President and CEO, says the Virginia Beach Amazon jobs help “cement the region’s dominance in fulfillment and technological innovation within the distribution space.”

Suffolk is already home to Virginia’s second largest building, which belongs to Amazon — a 3.8 million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center.

In the past year, Amazon.com continued its march across the commonwealth, announcing plans to build a 650,000-square-foot fulfillment center and a 219,000-square-foot delivery station in Virginia Beach, which are collectively…

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Hampton Roads Alliance22 hours ago

“This is now getting very real.”
Stephen Edwards, Virginia Port Authority CEO and executive director, has remarked about the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project.

Six monopiles, enormous metal structures used as wind turbine bases, are ready to be loaded onto a boat and travel to the wind farm site for installation!

The first batch of the enormous monopiles used as wind turbine bases are set to be transported to the Dominion Energy wind farm near Virginia Beach, according to Virginia Port Authority officials.

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Hampton Roads Alliance1 week ago

The Alliance will be representing Hampton Roads at AUVSI Xponential 2024, the unmanned systems industry's largest global conference and exhibition! The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation is organizing the Virginia Pavilion - VEDP, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, the Loudoun County Economic Development Authority, the New River Valley Economic Development Alliance, and the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority will also be there to market our state to members of the unmanned systems industry as the ideal place to locate their manufacturing and business operations.
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The Virginia Pavilion will feature cutting-edge innovations at global conference in San Diego.

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Hampton Roads Reporting for Duty

Hampton Roads is known around the world for its distinguished military presence. With a total of 15 installations, including Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base, and over 80,000 active-duty military personnel, the region has one of the largest concentrations of armed forces in the United States. These leading institutes are at the forefront of industry, creating and utilizing some of the most advanced equipment and training in the country.

Navy

Naval Station Norfolk is the world’s largest naval base

Active Military

82,000+ local military personnel

Transition

14,000+ ex military members transition into the civilian workforce

Military Installations & Headquarter Highlights

In addition to the Virginia National Guard, five of six branches of the military are represented in Hampton Roads. Over 82,000 active-duty military personnel are stationed across the region. The following is a highllight of military installations and headquarters:

Navy
U.S. Navy
- Naval Station Norfolk
- Naval Support Activity (NSA) Hampton Roads
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard
- Naval Air Station Oceana
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard
- Naval Weapons Station Yorktown
- Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story (Navy led joint base)
- Camp Peary
Army
U.S. Army
- Fort Eustis (part of Joint Base Langley – Eustis)
- Fort Story (part of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District (USACE)
- Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area (Under USACE)
Airforce
U.S. Airforce
- Joint Base Langley – Eustis (Air Force led joint base)
Coast Guard
U.S. Coast Guard
- Coast Guard Base Portsmouth
- Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown
- Coast Guard Atlantic Area (headquarters command)
- Fifth Coast Guard District (headquarters command)
- Coast Guard Shore Infrastructure Logistics Command (headquarters command)
Marines
U.S. Marine Corps
- Marine Forces Command (Camp Allen)
- Marine Corps Security Force Regiment (Naval Weapons Station Yorktown)
Virginia National Guard
Virginia National Guard
- State Military Reservation

Did you know?

Virginia is home to 26% of all active-duty Navy personnel, more than any other state

Transitioning Personnel

Each year, approximately 15,000 active-duty military personnel transition out of the military, either through retirement or into the civilian workforce. Thousands of these highly-trained men and women enter the Hampton Roads workforce and offer employers a unique opportunity to benefit from the skillset they have learned during their time in the service.

Exiting military personnel have a variety of resources to assist in their transition to the private sector, as well, such as the Veterans Career Compass from the Hampton Roads Workforce Council.