Archive for November, 2010

Real Estate Coffee Cafe: A New Concept in Selling Homes

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When Kevin Turner started working with Century 21 All-Service in 1991 at the age of 21, ambitious as he was, he never envisioned owning five local branches of the company—especially not one designed to mimic a coffee shop. But just last month, that’s exactly what came to be when Turner, now owner and broker at [...]

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Publisher’s Letter: November 2010

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With “the most wonderful time of the year” soon upon us, many of us are taking a moment to pause with gratitude, while also trying to determine how to make the holiday season fruitful, both professionally and personally. For some, this means a frenzy of to-do lists, for others, a marking down or incentivizing of [...]

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Interfaith Outreach Association

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The electric bill just arrived in the mail. The temperature outside is sub-zero. With trembling hands, the bill’s owner tears the envelope open, knowing even before seeing the total that they can’t afford to pay it. With two kids and a lost job, a cut-off notice is soon to follow. But there is one place [...]

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November 2010 Movers & Shakers

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HIRED Walter P. Mendenhall, P.E. joined Wiley|Wilson as a Senior Engineer in the Electrical Engineering Department.  Mendenhall will focus on power systems and arc flash hazard analysis projects, as well as have an emphasis on renewable energy and energy conservation.  He received a B.S. degree in Physics and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from [...]

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Cybersquatting: Prospecting in the 21st Century

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As anyone in business knows, web presence can make or break a company. As technology has continued to advance, web presence has become an emergent industry of its own, consisting of graphic designers, marketing firms, website optimizers, website hosting and many others. Cybersquatters lurk at the bottom of this industry, like modern day gold prospectors, [...]

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November LB Leader of the Month: David Cox

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Name: David Cox Job Title: Attorney, Owner of Cox Law Group Age: 40 Hometown: Lynchburg, VA Tell us about your career path. When did you start practicing law? I was born and raised in Lynchburg and went to Virginia Tech for college. After finishing law school at the University of Richmond in 1995, I spent [...]

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In the News, November 2010

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LYNCHBURG MSA MOVES UP FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR IN “BEST CITY” RANKINGS The Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has moved up 25 positions over last year in The Milken Institute / Greenstreet Real Estate Partners Best Performing Cities Index. The MSA includes the four-county Region 2000 geographic area, surrounding the City of Lynchburg. Lynchburg ranked [...]

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Attraction and Retention: Region 2000 Young Professionals

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Graduate from a good college: Check. Land a great job: Check. Relocate to city of the new job, which happens to be Lynchburg, VA: Check. Now what? It’s not always easy to move to a new place. But it’s especially hard when it happens to be a quaint area in central Virginia. While it’s not [...]

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Avoiding Workplace Maladies

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Every company wants to have happy and healthy employees, as well as be financially successful, thus there has been a lot of focus in recent years on the importance of ergonomics. Every year U.S. businesses lose billions of dollars due to work injuries, as well as lost productivity related to Musculoskeletal Disorders. Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) [...]

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Reducing the “College Footprint”

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It really comes down to a game of numbers. Lynchburg College had an enrollment of 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students for the 2010-2011 school year. Liberty University’s Fall 2010 registration totaled 12,000 students in the residential program, Sweet Briar College has a total undergraduate enrollment of 745 this year and Randolph College’s Fall 2010 enrollment [...]

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