
DATE: Sunday, September 7, 1997             TAG: 9709040591

SECTION: BUSINESS                PAGE: D6   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: HAMPTON ROADS ALMANAC '97

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GROWTH WHERE NEW BUSINESS HAS LOCATED

In the last 3 1/2 years, many dozens of businesses that supply us with gift items, household goods, computers and insurance have chosen to move to Hampton Roads. Others, who came to town in years past, have expanded their companies in that time period.

About 100 office and industrial businesses on the Southside and Peninsula have opened or expanded their distribution warehouses, customer service centers and manufacturing plants in the region in that time. They've contributed more than 16,500 jobs and more than $610 million in capital investment.

About two dozen companies also decided to move or expand on the Eastern Shore and in western communities adding hundreds of jobs.

Here's a look at where major office and industrial businesses have located.

(The list is not comprehensive and does not include retail.) MEMO: BUSINESS ALMANAC ILLUSTRATION: Map/Graphic

Graphic by MICHAEL HALL/The Virginian-Pilot

SOURCES: Isle of Wight Economic Development Department, Eastern

Shore of Virginia Economic Development commission,

Franklin-Southampton Economic Development Commission, Currituck

County Economic Development Department; Virginia Peninsula Economic

Development Council, the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance

and the companies

[For complete graphic, please see microfilm]