The Anchor Of The Peninsula

Newport News is a city that is transforming itself for the twenty-first century. While proud of its shipbuilding and maritime heritage, Newport News looks toward a future that includes high-energy physics and photonics research at Jefferson Lab and companies successfully competing in an engineering and technologyrich environment. Newport News offers a Great Climate for Growth for families, as well as for companies, their executives and employees. This positive climate results from a balance of successful economic activity and livability.

the northern end of the city are Oakland Industrial Park and Fort Eustis, the U.S. Army’s Transportation Center. Future economic growth is destined to occur at Carleton Farm Industrial Park, Endview and the Jefferson Center for Research and Technology.

Size

69 sq. miles

Population (2001 est.)

180,305

Median Family Income (2001 est.)

$36,597

Government City Council and City Manager

Major Industries

Northrop Grumman Newport News, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Army &Air Force Exchange Service (Dan Daniels Distribution Center), Canon Virginia, United ParcelService, Ferguson Enterprises, MCI, Jefferson Lab, Siemens VDO Automotive

City Information (757) 369-3410

School Information (757) 591-4500

Northrop Grumman Newport News (Newport News Shipbuilding), Virginia’s largest manufacturer, has been transforming itself during the past two decades into a high-tech company. While continuing to build and overhaul nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines, an increasing share of the Shipyard’s workforce is engaged in engineering, computers and telecommunications, managing systems and R&D. The new $58 million, 246,000 square foot Virginia Advanced Shipbuilding and Carrier Integration Center, located on the Downtown waterfront, and the 195,000 square foot Downtown Engineering Center are only the latest examples of the cooperation between the shipyard, the city, the state, and the Navy that has transformed the landscape of Downtown Newport News.

Stretched out for more than twenty miles along the James River, there are opportunities for its citizens to work from one end of the City to the other. Located at the southern point of the City, besides the Shipyard, are the port facilities, Copeland and the Seafood Industrial Parks and local government offices in the Downtown. The mid-point of the city contains Oyster Point, the business center of the Virginia Peninsula, where City Center at Oyster Point and Port Warwick are now being developed. City Center at Oyster Point, a mixed-use, urban scale development, will place up to one million square feet of class A office space in the center of Oyster Point. Port Warwick is a new urban village on more than 100 acres. North of Oyster Point are Jefferson Lab (and the Applied Research Center developed by the City’s Economic Development Authority), Canon Virginia, Symantec, Siemens VDO Automotive and the Newport News/ Williamsburg International Airport. The area around Patrick Henry Mall has become the central retail district for the Peninsula. At

The waters of Hampton Roads and its tributaries have formed the basis of both commerce and recreation in Newport News. The waters surrounding Newport News have spawned a richness of history and culture, including the world-renowned Mariners’ Museum. Other Newport News attractions include the Virginia Living Museum, the Virginia War Museum and Lee Hall Mansion.

If you have ever dreamt of a home on the water, there is plenty of opportunity in Newport News to live that dream at a very affordable cost. Or, perhaps you would rather own a home overlooking the green in the Villages of Kiln Creek. Of course, you don’t have to live on a golf course to enjoy a great game. Just come to Deer Run at Newport News Park and play one of two championship-level golf courses recently rated by Golf Digest Magazine as “Best Value.”

Newport News Park is the largest municipally-owned park east of the Mississippi and, besides golf, has trails, camping, picnic areas, archery and boating activities. The Newport News Parks and Recreation Department is one of the finest in Virginia and offers a full menu of youth sports, crafts and special events. The Mid-city Recreation Center contains an Olympic-size pool, as well as basketball courts and other facilities.

Education is integral to the life of the community and workforce. The Newport News public schools have won eleven National Awards of Excellence, an unprecedented achievement. Newport News has a full Talented and Gifted program in seven elementary schools, four middle schools and, through accelerated and advanced placement courses, in all high schools, in addition to an approved International Baccalaureate program. There are also magnet schools at all grade levels for math, science and technology, environmental science, aviation, arts and communication, and vocational technology. Newport News, Virginia, is truly your hi-tech hometown!