The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is sponsoring a promotional contest in order to accelerate the use of green roofs within the central portion of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed as a type of innovative low impact development technique.

Timmons Group has announced its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters during the first quarter of 2005. The company’s new corporate headquarters will be housed in Boulders One, located within the Boulders Office Complex in Chesterfield County. The company plans to expand its team of professionals by over 200 within the next four years and has created 35 of these professional positions to be filled during the first quarter of 2005.

Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center has opened a 150,000-square-foot medical office building off Route 288 in Midlothian. The center includes outpatient surgery, physician practices, laboratories and other medical services.

Four decades of transportation planning and construction will come to fruition Nov. 19 as the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) opens the final segment of Route 288 to traffic. The final link between Lucks Lane and Route 60 (Midlothian Turnpike) in Chesterfield County will allow motorists to make a continuous 32-mile trip from Interstate 64 in Goochland County to Interstate 95 in Chesterfield County for the first time.

Universal Health Services Inc., a back office patient account services center, has leased 16,500 square feet in the Commonwealth Center. The company has hired 70 employees to date and plans to add 20 more before the end of the year.