Al Harris

Q&A: Powering up

BizSense chats with an alternative energy entrepreneur who just moved his business out of the GreenTech Incubator in Ashland and who plans on hiring.

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.

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.