The NRV Business Center is a regional business incubator for small businesses and business startups and is at 100% capacity for the first time in its history.
In the ninth annual Best of Blue Ridge Awards, readers voted on a variety of places in the New River Valley and several were featured as top picks.
Software developers can’t get a job unless they have experience, but they can’t get experience if they can’t get a job. For the past decade, the Excella Extension Center at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg has bridged that gap, training Virginia Tech students as they work on projects for Excella clients.
Shaena Muldoon, owner and manager of The Palisades, received the Jim Wordsworth Award for Restaurateur of the Year from VRLTA.
The Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford metropolitan statistical area, known locally as the New River Valley, has been named a “Top Metro” for 2018 by Site Selection magazine.
According to Business Insider, Blacksburg, Virginia is the 13th best college town in America to start your career in 2019.
Christiansburg was ranked as the second best city to live in Virginia by creditdonkey.com and was described as “progressive small town living at its best”.
Pulaski comes in with the 8th lowest Cost of Living Index (COLI) at 86 in the state of Virginia.
Blacksburg, Virginia jumps 13 spots to the 9th safest college town in America in 2019 based on violent and property crime rates, according to SafeWise.
