Aaron Kremer

Aaron Kremer is the founder of Richmond BizSense. Email him at [email protected].

NewsFeeds 6.3.10

Longtime employee says goodbye to paper mill (Virginian-Pilot) Ralph Vincent Jr. was a third-generation worker at the International Paper mill outside Franklin. He had been there for more than 30 years. For him and over 50 others, Friday was the final day on the job. Loyalty takes butler from poor Nepal village to NY (AP)… Read more »

NewsFeeds 6.2.10

SportsQuest Deals: Buy Now or Pay Later? (Style Weekly) Gesturing dramatically and intoning a tried-and-true sales strategy, Steve Burton, chief executive of SportsQuest, convinced the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors to cough up $4.3 million to lease nine synthetic turf fields and other facilities that are part of a planned, $250 million sports complex near… Read more »

Office Sense: Beerland

Office Sense is back. This week we cool off in the Brown Distributing fridges. The local distributor moved into a new facility a year and a half ago.

NewsFeeds 6.01.10

An auction for the ages: Kluge preview begins Monday (Daily Progress) On 300 pastoral acres in southern Albemarle County, a dynasty is for sale. An opulent estate that once housed Charlottesville royalty – billionaires John and Patricia Kluge – is being disassembled. Tourism hopes rise at Smith Mountain Lake (Roanoke Times) Demand slowed significantly in… Read more »

Markel buys half of local private equity fund

An arm of a local insurance giant has invested in a Richmond-based private equity fund that buys distressed real estate projects with the goal of fixing the management, injecting more money and coming out with a handsome return.

NewsFeeds 5.28.10

Woman gets 10 years for defrauding Va. fund for disabled children (Times-Dispatch) Allen, according to a federal indictment and federal and state prosecutors, falsified or inflated invoices for handicap-accessible vans and housing-renovation work. She created two fictitious companies fronting as a design firm and a van-conversion firm. Millions in debt after golf course is built… Read more »

Ice Cream shop

The owners of Kitchen 64 — located on the Boulevard just North of the Diamond — are opening an icecream and dessert shop called Sweet 95. A contractor working on the building said it will be open within a month. And while over there, I had a thought: why can’t business people meet for ice… Read more »