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    Richmond: Economy/Business/Real Estate

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    Petersburg-based company to reactivate critical minerals mining operations in Dinwiddie, Sussex • Virginia Mercury

    The mine is planned to run for about six years across an area of 20 to 40 acres to procure a yearly average of about 20,000 short tons of titanium and 50,000 to 60,000 short tons of zirconium, Wyatt said. The separating operations process uses magnets, electrostatics and some additives like flocculant, which is a chemical to help the mud sink in the water, Wyatt said.

    The major project — the result of a deal between the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and its Virginia Jobs Investment Program, the counties and Virginia’s Gateway Region — is expected to generate 71 jobs.

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    Virginia legislature asserts authority over state buildings (richmond.com)

    The turf war has broken into the open in downtown Richmond, home to the Capitol and buildings housing the seat of state government. The Senate and House budgets both challenge a unilateral decision that Youngkin made last year to cancel a plan, included in the current budget and the one he introduced in December, to build a new office building at East Seventh and East Main streets on the site of the former Virginia Employment Commission headquarters, which the state demolished this month.

    Instead, the administration unveiled a plan last month that would keep the cleared site green indefinitely, while demolishing the 29-story Monroe Building and moving state agencies housed there into Main Street Center at 600 E. Main St. in downtown Richmond or other office space that the state owns or leases.

    “What the governor is proposing is a pretty significant divestment in the city of Richmond, without taking into consideration the previous dictates of the General Assembly,” said Sen. Jeremy McPike, D-Prince William, chairman of the Senate Finance subcommittee that included provisions in the budget to assert control of Old City Hall and reverse the administration’s plans for downtown.

    Both budgets would remove $50 million the administration had earmarked to demolish the Monroe Building and renovate Main Street Center, currently home of the Virginia Lottery.

    The Senate budget would keep planning and construction of the office building at Seventh and Main in the capital outlay plan. The House budget would use the money to plan for state offices at the Virginia Department of Transportation annex on East Broad Street that it said the department expects to vacate soon and provide additional money for maintenance of the Monroe Building “until plans are finalized to relocate its existing tenants.”

    The House would also keep $3 million in the budget for planning a new building at Seventh and Main.

    Under the Youngkin administration’s new plan for the seat of government, two of Monroe’s current tenants would occupy part of Old City Hall, currently divided between the executive and legislative branches.

    The battle over control of Old City Hall has been simmering for more than a year. Last year, before the $71 million renovation of the building had been completed, the Youngkin administration said the occupants of the building “are to be determined.”

    That came as a surprise to House Clerk Paul Nardo and Senate Clerk Susan Clarke Schaar, who were already planning to move the Division of Legislative Automated Systems and the Capitol Police into Old City Hall. The two legislative branch agencies moved into the building last fall.

    The Senate tucked its own surprise into the back of the budget it approved last week. In a section clarifying various state agency charges for food, housing, building and parking services, the budget declares that both Old City Hall and the new 500-space parking deck, with adjoining offices, “shall be under the control of the Committee on Joint Rules and administered by the Clerk of the House and the Clerk of the Senate.”

     

    This is just a whole mess, but looks like the Monroe might not come down after all. 

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