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June 29, 2017
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Chesterfield Airport to Build Longer Runway

By Jim McConnell | The Chesterfield Observer | Full Article    

More than four years after it filed an application with the Federal Aviation Administration, the county finally has received clearance to begin work on a long-planned runway extension and other capital improvements at the Chesterfield Airport.

FAA approval was the final bureaucratic hurdle the county airport had to clear in order to lengthen its runway by 800 feet, which officials say will allow bigger aircraft to take off and land safely in Chesterfield.
Prince George's First Solar Facility Coming to Rives Road
By Michael Campbell | Prince George Journal | Full Article 

PRINCE GEORGE - A plot of land nestled along Rives Road next to Interstate 295 will soon become a hub of green energy after supervisors unanimously approved 15-megawatt utility-scale facility to set up shop in the county earlier this month.
New Energy Ventures, now known as Caden Energy, according to the company's website, plans to develop a 148-acre site along Rives Road near I-295 northbound into a solar facility that is capable of producing enough energy to power 3,000 county homes annually through the use of roughly 60,000 solar panels across 71 acres, with the power generated from the site being fed to a Dominion Energy substation nearby.