The Virginia Pulse
Construction & development across Virginia

What's getting built in Virginia.

New projects, zoning votes and the policy behind them, from Northern Virginia to Hampton Roads to the Roanoke Valley. In plain language, with sources. One email a week.

What you'll get

Vote Watch

Planning commission and board of supervisors votes, flagged before they happen.

Projects

Groundbreakings, openings and the big developments in the pipeline, with dollars, acreage and timelines.

Policy

Data center rules, zoning changes and state decisions that shape what can be built.

What it means

What a project changes for the town around it, not just the press release.

  • Northern Virginia
  • Richmond
  • Hampton Roads
  • Shenandoah Valley
  • Central Virginia
  • Roanoke & Southwest
  • Southside
Coming up

Vote Watch

Oct6
Loudoun County

County attorney's opinion on revoking grandfathering for 17 data center applications.

Oct20
Loudoun County

Final vote on a 12-month pause on data center and substation applications.

Oct29
Chesterfield County

Deadline for Google's Project Peanut data center to answer state environmental violations.

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