Frank Batten Sr., retired chairman and CEO
of Landmark Communications Inc., donated $7
million to the Virginia Zoo for the first phase
of its master plan for expansion. Batten also gave
$1 million to Tidewater Community College to
establish high-tech centers at each campus and provide
fellowships for faculty to develop innovative teaching
methods. (The Virginian-Pilot)
Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern
Inc., a
Roanoke architecture company, received a National Design-Build
Excellence Award from the Design-Build Institute of
America. The company was cited for two Washington,
D.C., Metrorail Blue Line station with complementary
parking garages and daycare center. (PR Newswire)
The University of Virginia’s
School of Architecture ranked
third among graduate programs nationwide in a listing
by the Design Futures Council. (PR Newswire) U.Va.’s Cancer
Center received
a $5 million grant from the Smithfield-Luter Foundation in
memory of Palmer Weber, a former adviser to Joseph
W. Luter III, chairman and CEO of Smithfield Foods.
Weber’s son, Michael J. Weber, is director of the Cancer
Center (The Daily Progress). U.Va.’s School
of Nursing received a $5 million challenge grant from
the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation. The
grant will help finance an expansion of the nursing
school that will include a new nursing education building. (PR
Newswire)
The Virginia Chapter of Certified Commercial Investment
Members elected Norman Moon of Milton
Realty Services of Lynchburg as president, and Mark
Claud of Commonwealth Commercial of Richmond,
as president-elect. (PR Newswire)
