Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Satellite giant has officially announced its move to Tyson's Corner, despite an "agressive" incentives package offered by Montgomery County, according to reports.
Satellite giant Intelsat announced Monday it will move its Washington, DC-based U.S. headquarters and its 430 employees to Tyson’s Corner in mid-2014, the Washington Business Journal reports. The company looked closely at an East-West Highway office tower under construction by Carr Properties in Bethesda, the Business Journal reported last month, and was offered “a very aggressive incentives package” to consider re-locating to Montgomery County. According to the Business Journal’s latest report, Intelsat CEO David McGlade remarked to Virginia Sen. Mark Warner that the satellite services provider company had a tough choice between Maryland and Virginia. Minutes later, according to the report, McGlade “got a call from Gov. Bob McDonnell, …
Monday, August 20, 2012
The incubator was renamed Sunday for the former Rockville mayor and county councilman.
Montgomery County elected officials, family and friends of the late William E. Hanna Jr. on Sunday formally renamed the Shady Grove Innovation Center in memory of the longtime Rockville mayor and County Councilman, whose vision helped shape the county’s biotechnology sector. “Bill Hanna pioneered the county’s investment in life sciences, directly leading to Montgomery County’s preeminent position as one of the world’s leading biotechnology centers,” County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) said in a statement. “Renaming our first small business incubator facility after him pays tribute to his extraordinary efforts to make our county a leader in the field of biotechnology research, development and education.” Hanna died in January 2011, just …
Friday, August 17, 2012
Longtime county councilman and Rockville mayor fostered the growth of the biotech sector in Shady Grove.
Montgomery County’s first business incubator, the Shady Grove Innovation Center, will be linked to the man whose vision helped foster it -- William E. Hanna Jr. -- in a ceremony Sunday. The longtime Rockville mayor and Montgomery County council member died in January 2011, just short of his 90th birthday. City and county officials, family and friends, including County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), County Council President Roger Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Potomac, former Rockville mayor and friend Steven VanGrack and Merle Steiner, Hanna’s former chief of staff, are expected to attend the 2 p.m. ceremony at the center at 9700 Great Seneca Highway in Rockville. In an obituary on Rockville Patch, Leggett, who served with Hanna on the County …
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
After having its list of public amenities removed from from planning documents, the committee will draft a letter.
At its meeting Wednesday night, the Kensington Revitalization Committee agreed to fight for the inclusion of a list of public benefits in the town's zoning text amendment The town had previously submitted an amendment requiring such public benefits as tree canopies, way-finding and vegetated roofs to be required for commercial-residential zones. However, in July, the county's Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee recommended those be deleted, which would force the town to negotiate for those amenities with individual developers, said Councilmember Mackie Barch, co-chairman of the Revitalization Committee. "Everything we've wanted has kind of fallen by the wayside," Barch said. In response, the committee plans to send a …
jag
2:15 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
"the governor said before he presented Fairfax Board Chairman Sharon Bulova with an oversized $1.3 million check" LOL. I knew VA handed out corporate welfare as if it was candy, but I never knew they took such pride in it. Learn something new every day. more ›