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EDA staff reports biotech outreach, energy workforce work and Ravenna Futures site-readiness progress

Economic Development Authority of Albemarle County · November 6, 2025
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Economic development staff reported recent outreach to biotech and defense-related firms, a launched business climate questionnaire, energy workforce coordination with PVCC, and progress on the Ravenna Futures site-readiness funding and related grant applications.

Economic development staff provided several program updates: biotech and defense-sector outreach, a new business climate questionnaire for business retention and expansion (BRE), energy workforce coordination, the Commonwealth Bio Accelerator ribbon cutting and progress on the Ravenna Futures site-readiness funding.

"We have been... focusing on biotech and med devices," said a staff member summarizing recent BRE outreach to multiple biotech companies and contacts in national…

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