“This treatment requires intensive monitoring and careful coordination among a large team of care providers,” Dr. Ryan Gentzler, a UVA Health lung cancer specialist, said. “We were able to treat our first patient so quickly after FDA approval thanks to successful collaboration and interdisciplinary efforts among our nurses, pharmacists, information technology team members and social workers.”

Doctors credit the UVA Cancer Center’s nurse navigator program, which simplifies and streamlines the approval process by guiding patients through the steps required to receive tarlatamab. Nurse navigators schedule appointments and manage referrals from doctors across Virginia and beyond, as well as handle other logistics.

“Our nurse navigators are just one example of how our team comes together to bring the latest advances in cancer care to our patients,” Dr. Richard Hall, a UVA Health lung cancer specialist, said. “Our thoracic oncology team is on the cutting edge of cancer treatments, and our experienced team has the expertise required to be among the first in the nation to offer groundbreaking new therapies like tarlatamab to our patients.”

UVA Cancer Center is one of 56 U.S. cancer centers to receive a “comprehensive” designation from the National Cancer Institute. The recognition honors elite cancer centers with the most outstanding cancer care and research programs in the country.

Patients looking to learn more about receiving tarlatamab at UVA Cancer Center can call 434-924-9333.

The man charged in the fatal shooting of a southwest Virginia sheriff’s deputy and the wounding of another deputy earlier this month has died in a Tennessee hospital, a local prosecutor said.

Timothy Wayne Goodman, 65, of North Carolina, died early Friday at Johnson City Medical Center, according to a news release from Smyth County Commonwealth’s Attorney Phillip Blevins.

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Channel 9 confirmed Goodman was from Cherryville in Gaston County.

Goodman had been charged with aggravated murder in the Aug. 9 death of Smyth County Deputy Hunter Reedy and with four counts of attempted murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony, Blevins said earlier. The other Smyth County deputy wounded was released a day after the shootings and is recovering at home, news outlets reported.

Goodman was hospitalized after also being shot in an exchange with officers, according to police.

Goodman’s death “concludes a significant chapter in this matter, but our commitment to supporting Deputy Reedy’s family, the other officers involved, and the entire law enforcement community is as strong as ever,” Blevins said in the release.

According to authorities, the shootings happened during a traffic stop that Reedy participated in along with police officers from Marion. An investigation found Goodman was involved in a confrontation with Marion officers and the deputies before the shooting, according to Virginia State Police.

Reedy’s funeral was held Saturday at a church in Chilhowie, with Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Attorney General Jason Miyares among the speakers. Reedy. 28, went to high school in Chilhowie and was a police officer there before joining the sheriff’s department. He was married with three children.

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An apartment development that’s set to add hundreds of units near the transforming Virginia Center Commons site is underway following a multimillion-dollar land deal that’s been over a year in the making.

Bristol Development Group has started construction on a five-story, 279-unit apartment building at 10551 Telegraph Road after paying $6 million for the 3.3-acre parcel in a deal that closed last month.

The seller was Mohawk Investment Partners LLC, which purchased the undeveloped pad site in 2022 from National Financial Realty Holdings, the owner of the adjacent Colonial Place office park. Bristol’s 7-acre project includes part of the office park property.

The July 12 closing came 10 months after Bristol secured approval from Henrico County for a revised version of the project that it first proposed last summer. The revised plan works off a smaller footprint that provides more open space on the property, which is within the form-based overlay district that Henrico has established for the VCC area.

That area includes the former mall site, which Rebkee Co. and Shamin Hotels are redeveloping with restaurants, hotels and hundreds of apartments, condos and townhomes. The redevelopment is anchored by the Henrico Sports & Events Center, which the county opened last fall.

It was the overlay district that prompted Mohawk to market the pad site for multifamily development, said Thalhimer agent David Smith, who brokered the deal for Mohawk and has worked with Bristol on its other developments in metro Richmond.

David Smith (Photo courtesy Thalhimer)

Smith said the site had been meant for a third office building but was never developed before Mohawk purchased it from National Financial, which had bought the three parcels that make up the office park the previous year in separate deals totaling nearly $25 million. County property records show it sold the pad site to Mohawk for what it paid for that parcel: $50,000.

“This was a pad-ready office site that really became a multifamily site, and that was a good thing for the owner and in this case also a good thing for Bristol,” Smith said.

“It was the overlay that enabled us to build multifamily, and in particular, multistory multifamily, so in essence the deal was already zoned,” he said. “We went to market with that, and that was obviously very attractive to the parties we marketed it to.”

Smith said he marketed the site to five or six development firms that were identified as viable contenders, including Bristol.

“At the end of the day, Bristol did win the contest, but that wasn’t for any other reason than they just made the best proposal and came up with some of the very best ideas to launch a development transaction,” Smith said. “It was a very, very tough deal. But everybody pulled together and we got it done.”

The 303,000-square-foot apartment building will front Telegraph Road and wrap around a central courtyard with community amenities. A dog park, pocket park and additional courtyard are planned beside the building, along with 339 parking spaces.

The building would wrap around a central courtyard and include additional amenities beside it. Additional parking to the south is not shown. (County documents)

The one- and two-bedroom apartments will range in size from about 450 to 1,230 square feet. Rents have not been announced.

Fortune-Johnson is the general contractor for the apartments, which are scheduled for completion in June 2026. Poole & Poole Architecture is designing the project, and Timmons Group is handling engineering work.

The project is the seventh for Bristol in the Richmond market. The Tennessee-based developer’s other area projects include Tapestry West in Henrico’s Westwood area, The Canopy at Ginter Park in the city’s Northside, Artistry at Winterfield in the Midlothian area, and 2000 West Creek in Goochland. Each of those properties was later sold to Capital Square, a Henrico-based real estate firm.

Bristol’s latest local development, The Collective West Creek, opened last year. The $75 million, 335-unit complex is off Patterson Avenue at the southern end of West Creek Business Park.

In other VCC area news, Henrico’s Economic Development Authority announced last week it has purchased The Crossings Golf Club for $3 million as part of a public-private partnership to enhance the public course in a bid to keep PGA Tour Champions tournaments in Henrico after 2025, when the Dominion Energy Charity Classic is set to lose its title sponsor and host venue.