Suffolk

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Suffolk is a diverse city boasting world-class employers, stylish housing, quality healthcare, excellent schools, and an endless choice of recreational opportunities. We're pursuing a vision that keeps everything in balance: economic development, education, downtown and village and neighborhood revitalization, quality of life, and managed growth.

Easy access to regional highways, international and general airports, and the Port of Virginia have all made Suffolk the region's prime business location. More than $645 million in new capital investment, for major new and expanding commercial projects, have poured into the community between 1998 and 2004, creating more than 5,600 jobs.

The truest testament of our economic prosperity can be recognized in such long-time corporate residents as Kraft/Planters Peanuts, Unilever Best Foods/Lipton Tea, Sara Lee Coffee & Tea, QVC Distribution, and Ciba Specialty Chemicals, as well as such recent additions as Ferguson Enterprises. Suffolk is also home to the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) and the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC). New information technology companies include Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics Electronic Systems.

During 2004, business continued to boom with 31 major office, industrial and commercial projects. Ciba Specialty Chemicals opened an administrative sales office, and research, development and technical service laboratory. Reading Equipment and Distribution, Inc. opened a new regional operations center. Ferguson Enterprises built their Hampton Roads regional operations center in Northgate Commerce Park.

Suffolk's historic downtown remains an ideal blend of old and new. Classic Victorian architecture beams with a revitalized purpose. Main Street has come to life with many new shops and restaurants. The former Suffolk High School is being reborn as the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, featuring a 500-seat theater. The Fairgrounds Revitalization Plan includes 160 new homes and apartments to be constructed in a blend of architectural styles found throughout the city's established neighborhoods. And along the waterfront at Constant's Wharf, construction was completed for the new Hilton Garden Inn and Suffolk Conference Center.

Add it all up and Suffolk appeals to people of all ages and interests, which makes living and doing business in Suffolk very hard to beat. Indeed, as the saying goes, "It's a good time to be in Suffolk!"