THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, February 19, 1997 TAG: 9702190368
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D2 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 80 lines
HAMPTON ROADS
MID-ATLANTIC ATTRACTS RETIREES: When it comes to choosing a place to retire, the Mid-Atlantic region may be hotter than Arizona and Florida. While Florida and Arizon top the list of states netting more age 60-plus migrants, North Carolina ranks third, South Carolina sixth and Virginia 15th. While Florida and Arizona are still the top retirement destinations, their share of the total market has fallen. Retirees say the Mid-Atlantic has good climate and is less congested and has a lower cost of living than traditional retirement areas. Of the 183 communites ranked in ``Retirement Places Rated,'' 29 are in the Mid-Atlantic. ``Retirees fall in love with breathtaking mountains, rolling hills, coastal plains and quiet towns, often near universities,'' writes Betty Joyce Nash, of Cross Sections, a regional business magazine produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. STRICKLAND ELECTED TO BOARD: James V. Strickland Jr. was elected to the First Virginia Bank of Tidewater board of directors. Strickland is president of the certified public accounting firm of Strickland & Jones, P.C., with offices in Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
CHESAPEAKE
LEITCH NAMES TATALOVICH MANAGER: Leitch Inc. named George Tatalovich a U.S. field service manager. He was an in-house sales engineer and has also served as corporate pilot where he provided transportation for departments at the Virginia facility and also its parent company Leitch Technology International in Toronto.
NORFOLK
SADOWSKI MADE AN ASSOCIATE: Eileen Sadowski was named an associate at Goodman & Company. She is a 1995 graduate of Old Dominion University. Also, the accounting firm promoted Melinda Davis, Susan Davis and Stacey Super from associate to senior associate.
VIRGINIA BEACH
RADIO STATIONS RELOCATING: Max Media will house four radio stations in a 15,500-square-foot office suite in the new Runnymede Corporation project to be built at the TRC Center on Clearfield Avenue. The location will include stations 2WD, Z104, 94.9 The Point and WFOG. The stations will broadcast from the same building. The premises will be ready on May 1. Max Media recently acquired 94.9 The Point and WFOG. Levine MORTGAGE FIRM NAMES LOAN OFFICERS: Fred E. Levine and Cola J. Galvin were named loan officers at George Mason Mortgage Corp., a subsidiary of George Mason Bank. Levine was most recently associated with Market g3ls19 Galvin Street Mortgage Corp. in Virginia Beach and Galvin was previously a loan officer for Columbia National Mortgage Corp. in Virginia Beach.
KIGHT TO DIRECT ACCOUNTING: Divaris Property Management Corp. appointed Ginger H. Kight to director of property management accounting. She is a certified public accountant and previously worked as finance manager/controller with Bell Atlantic Video Services in Chesapeake.
VIRGINIA
BELL ATLANTIC, COX AGREE: Bell Atlantic Corp. and Cox Communications Inc. said they finalized terms of connecting their networks to allow Cox to compete in the local telephone business in Hampton Roads and Roanoke. The agreement - which set fees and other terms of exchanging phone traffic - is part of a lengthy process of breaking up the local-phone monopolies now enjoyed by Bell Atlantic, GTE Corp. and other local providers. Cox, which currently provides limited phone services to Hampton Roads businesses, has said it plans to offer full local-exchange services to some business customers this year. It has said it doesn't expect to use its cable-TV system to offer phone services to residences in Hampton Roads until 1998 at the earliest.
WHITE OAK PLANT ON SCHEDULE: White Oak Semiconductor, a joint venture of Motorola Inc. and Germany's Siemens AG, said construction of its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Henrico County east of Richmond is proceeding on schedule and that about 200 employees have been hired from an applicant pool of over 9,500. White Oak plans to begin production of memory chips at the plant in April 1998. Jody Lomenzo Bolstad, a company spokeswoman, said 80 of the employees were sent to a Motorola facility in Austin, Texas, in mid-January for eight months of training. White Oak has hired two employees from South Hampton Roads and has recently launched an effort to recruit ex-military personnel in Hampton Roads for selected engineering and information-services positions. White Oak expects to have as many as 500 workers when it begins production. MEMO: To submit something for the Local Scene, please fax it to
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