Stafford County, in an ongoing effort to boost economic development, is planning a research park with many of our community neighbors including Quantico Marine Corps Base, the University of Mary Washington, George Mason University, Germanna Community College (along with other university partners), and private-sector stakeholders.

A McLean-based Fortune 500 defense contractor is the latest company to sign up for office space at the fast-growing Quantico Corporate Center in North Stafford.

The University of Maryland University College will offer undergraduate and graduate programs in a recently completed three-story building at the Quantico Corporate Center in North Stafford.

Stafford County could move one step closer tonight toward its vision for a research and technology park off U.S. 1 in North Stafford.

Falls Church-based Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a multi-billion-dollar global IT business, has signed a 10,000-square-foot lease for office space at the Quantico Corporate Center in North Stafford.

Cookie's Barber Shop II has signed a lease for 800 square feet in a new retail building planned at the main entrance to the Quantico Corporate Center off U.S. 1 in North Stafford, complex developer the Silver Cos. announced late Wednesday. Owner Cookie DooleyÕs other shop is down the road a bit at 2712 Jefferson Davis Highway.

A 96-room Courtyard by Marriott will be built near the center's entrance off U. S. 1, near the Quantico Marine Corps Base. Tharaldson Motels Inc., based in North Dakota, recently purchased a 2.7-acre parcel from the Silver Cos., the centerÕs developer, for $1.4 million. Construction is expected to begin in the spring or summer of 2012.

Stafford County allocates $237,000 to research and technology park in North Stafford

The University of Mary Washington will offer a project management professional (PMP) certification exam preparation course this fall at the Quantico Corporate Center as one of the first of what is hoped to be many classes at a research and technology park in North Stafford, according to a news release Stafford sent this afternoon.