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Redeveloper thinks big in Winchester

Settled between the affluence of Northern Virginia and the hills of West Virginia, Winchester is positioned to export its most educated workers to remunerative office jobs to the urbanized east, while importing low-- cost assembly-line labor from across the state line.

And while this migration has long kept the city's industries fueled with human resources, it is an equation that is bound ultimately to sap its economic vitality and reduce it to a bedroom community for the educated that is precariously dependent on large manufacturing.

Or, so is the world view of Jim Deskins, Winchester's recently hired redevelopment director. Since taking the newly created position on Feb. 1, Deskins, ...

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