Chesapeake was founded in 1634 as Norfolk County, Virginia. Then, in 1919 as South Norfolk. In 1963 it became an independent city (with no county) as the City of Chesapeake. Chesapeake’s motto is: “One Increasing Purpose”. The City of Chesapeake, located in southeastern Virginia, is home to the international Headquarters for Dollar Tree.
Dollar Tree is a Fortune 500 company and operates 15,115 stores throughout the 48 contiguous U.S. states and Canada. Chesapeake consists of eight informal communities or boroughs: South Norfolk, Greenbrier, Hickory, Deep Creek, Grassfield, Great Bridge, Indian River, and Western Branch.
The City of Chesapeake’s local residents, businesses, boroughs, and local neighborhoods always embraces cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity, social justice, and has many positive-minded motivated and inspiring people as well as Virginia historic business-friendly Chesapeake communities.
Chesapeake residents are rolling out the “Welcome to Chesapeake” and the “Relax, You’re Among Friends” Chesapeake welcome mats to veterans, new local entrepreneurs, students, new startups, online sales, business founders, new residents and many more Chesapeake value-added businesses.
The City of Chesapeake encourages its residents to become inventors and creators of startups in retail, music, beauty, healthcare, legal, home repair services, medical support services, information technology (IT), restaurants, makeup, online sales, cleaning services, car repair, beauty salons, barber shops, education technology, and construction to help Chesapeake’s local business community to grow.