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The 110,000-square-foot expansion will accommodate additional storage for unprocessed and processed tobacco. The expansion is a way to be more efficient and secure and retain the 300 full-time and seasonal jobs that already exist at JTI, Steve ...

Goodyear — Danville’s largest private employer — broke ground in Danville 50 years ago and cured its first tire on Nov. 25, 1966. The company’s Danville plant manager gave a history of the factory during the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber ...

The news this week that Intertape Polymer is investing $22 million in its local plant to add manufacturing lines is a huge turnaround from two years ago when an unexpected electric rate increase from Danville Utilities threw the company’s budget ...

Work has begun on the 5.4-acre site that German grocery chain Lidl purchased last November at the intersection of Piedmont Drive and Piedmont Place. A building permit to construct a 36,000-square-foot grocery store was issued last week. Lidl was ...

Essel Propack has purchased a new $6 million tubing machine that will produce more than three times that of the plant’s other equipment in Danville. Known as the SHOT (super high output tubing) line, the machine will be up and running by ...

CHATHAM — Intertape Polymer Group plans to invest $22 million in several new manufacturing lines at its facility near Ringgold. The Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted to offer incentives of up to $144,319 over three years in machine ...

The 500 block of Craghead Street is in the middle of a massive renovation, encompassing eight of the nine buildings on the block — all purchased by Rick Barker Properties over the past two years. Barker first completed the first floor of 554 ...

The two men who have partnered in two successful development projects in the River District — the Pemberton Lofts on Bridge Street and the Continental Lofts on Craghead Street — have teamed up again to bring a craft brewery to the district. Ross ...