$100M later, Virginia industrial development sites sit empty

By Sarah Rankin and Alan Suderman

Sarah Rankin, reporter, and her Richmond, Virginia, colleague, statehouse correspondent Alan Suderman, for using records requests and documentation to exclusively report that Virginia spent $100 million over 10 years on economic development of rural sites to draw advanced manufacturing – but those sites still sit empty and the state lacks any meaningful data about what it actually has to offer companies.