BizSense chats with an alternative energy entrepreneur who just moved his business out of the GreenTech Incubator in Ashland and who plans on hiring.
Al Harris
Two restaurants find new owners
Café Gutenberg and Davis & Main are ready for their next incarnations.
Pipeline: Commercial Real Estate Round Up 8.26.11
Gold’s Gym just bought a 23,000 property for $1.1 million. Plus frozen yogurt shop Sweet Frog is adding another location. And a Short Pump retail building sold for $2 million.
Q, cubed
Q Barbeque is opening its third location near Virginia Center Commons.
Nutrional supplement seller opens warehouse in Colonial Heights
A New Hampshire-based seller of nutritional supplements and vitamins has moved its distribution center to Colonial Heights.
A sweet opportunity
An iconic Richmond building with huge development potential is going to auction.
Local firms among country's fastest growing
Business is a-booming for 20 Richmond area companies who landed a spot on the most recent list of the country’s 5,000 fastest growing companies as compiled by Inc. Magazine One company made it into the top 500: TBL Networks, a Glen Allen based-business that offers Cisco services and support. The company, which has 16 employees,… Read more »
Sometimes crime does pay
Most of the time, it is an honor to have your photo in the paper — unless that paper happens to be the Crime Times. That is the name of a new publication selling in Charlottesville that is chock full of arrest photos from the area. The Hook reports that the paper, published by truck… Read more »
Va. firm under investigation
The State Corporation Commission opened an inquiry into the Tetra Companies, a defunct real estate investment group based in Virginia Beach.
Spending dough, buying bread
Total taxable sales for Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield are up almost 2 percent over the same period last year, and grocery stores saw a double-digit increase.