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Thrasher Expands Presence in Southern West Virginia with New Huntington Office

Opening Spring 2026

The Thrasher Group announced the opening of a new office in Huntington, West Virginia — marking the firm’s continued investment in the communities and clients it serves across southwestern West Virginia and the broader Tri-State region.

The Huntington office location will extend Thrasher’s reach into one of West Virginia’s most important regional hubs, bringing the firm’s full-service architecture, engineering, and field services capabilities closer to the clients, projects, and communities that define this part of the state.

Serving the Tri-State Region

Huntington sits at the crossroads of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio — a region with significant infrastructure needs, active development, and a long history of resilience. Thrasher has been engaged in meaningful work across southwestern West Virginia for years, and this new office reflects a natural and deliberate next step: establishing a permanent, local presence to better serve the people and partners who call this region home.

From water and wastewater infrastructure to transportation, site development, and public facilities, Thrasher’s team will be positioned to respond more quickly, collaborate more closely, and deliver the kind of results that come from being genuinely embedded in a community.

Leadership

The Huntington office will be led by Kevin Price, Aviation Development Manager, who brings focused expertise and strong regional relationships to this new chapter for the firm. Kevin’s background in aviation development and infrastructure positions Thrasher well to pursue opportunities across the Huntington area, southwestern West Virginia, and the Tri-State region — including airport improvement projects, capital planning, and the full range of services Thrasher provides to public and private clients.

A Growing Footprint, A Consistent Mission

The Huntington office joins Thrasher’s network of locations across West Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic — each one a reflection of the firm’s core belief that the best work happens when you’re genuinely part of the communities you serve. Since 1983, Thrasher has built its reputation not just on technical capability, but on long-term relationships and a track record of delivering projects that improve people’s lives.

Southwestern West Virginia and the Ohio River Valley deserve that same level of partnership. This office is our commitment to making it happen.

More details on the official opening date and location will be announced soon. To connect with our Huntington team in the meantime, visit thethrashergroup.com or contact us directly.

The Thrasher Group is a full-service architecture, engineering, and survey firm headquartered in Bridgeport, West Virginia. Founded in 1983, Thrasher is the largest privately owned firm of its kind in West Virginia and serves clients across the Mid-Atlantic region.

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WV Statewide Broadband Study Completed

Currently ranked as one of the two least connected states in the nation, there is much work to be done in West Virginia to close the digital divide. One of Thrasher’s clients – Regional Optical Communications (ROC) – took a major step towards making that happen through the completion of a statewide broadband study.

Thrasher worked with ROC to examine every broadband serviceable address in the state and determine a route to bring fiber to each one. This was an incredibly extensive effort. It started with data collection, which involved assistance from the West Virginia Office of Broadband, regional planning and development councils, and county commissions. Thrasher compiled all of the collected address and internet service data together to make maps of each of the state’s 55 counties and their current internet landscape.

After a detailed review of each serviceable address on these maps, Thrasher developed preliminary routes to identify how internet service could be extended to the needed locations. Ultimately, more than 14,800 miles of preliminary fiber routes were created, with associated cost estimates developed for each county’s overall proposed infrastructure extensions.

The project did not stop there, though. Thrasher’s team took all of the data for the state and compiled it into a report that includes results on a county-by-county basis, provides an overview on the methodology used to complete the work, and – perhaps most importantly – details how the information can be operationalized to create specific broadband implementation projects.

The impact this will have on West Virginians is truly immeasurable. With this large-scale initial planning process complete, counties, communities, and internet service providers can focus directly on funding and constructing broadband projects that bring reliable, high-speed internet to every corner of the state.

More than $1.2 billion of federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding will soon to be released to West Virginia, and several other federal funding options are already available. Having the data to determine exactly what projects can be built will move the construction process along much quicker and allow for better use of these once-in-a-generation resources.

Now is the time to truly close the digital divide in West Virginia – this study will have a hand in making it happen.

View the full report.

UPDATE – Since the original report was published, a change in previously funded routes occurred in the counties that make up the Region 1 Planning and Development Council’s (RPDC) territory, with funding no longer available for several of the routes originally marked as funded.

A supplemental report is available, which provides updated routing and cost estimates for those areas impacted by this funding change.

View the supplemental report.

Example of mapped and color-coded addresses in Morgan County.
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New Fredericksburg Office Location

Fredericksburg, VA – The Thrasher Group, a leading full-service firm in the Mid-Atlantic, marked the opening of their new office in Fredericksburg, VA at a ribbon cutting event on Thursday, September 7, 2017. The new location, 100 Industrial Drive, Fredericksburg, VA, replaces a previous, nearby location.

Thrasher has conducted business in the Fredericksburg area for over five years, but needed a larger space to accommodate a growing engineering staff and large regional survey crew.

“Over the past year we have gained momentum in the area and have turned our focus on growing business in the Commonwealth,” said CEO Chad Riley. “One of Thrasher’s core values is to improve where we live and work, and we are looking forward to carrying that out in Fredericksburg.”

The Thrasher Group provides is a full-service firm offering architecture, engineering, and field services such as environmental, survey, materials testing, and construction management. For over 30 years, Thrasher has earned a reputation for excellence, serving clients in many markets both private and public. Our dedication to providing creative design solutions, well-managed projects, and exceptional customer service has made Thrasher one of the fastest-growing A/E firms in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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