Five of the six local companies that made this year’s list moved up in the rankings from last year.
Al Harris
Heady times for the baseball biz
Thousands of baseball fans will root for Richmond’s new team tonight, but the Flying Squirrels aren’t the only baseball-related business in town.
What to do about Azalea Mall
Growing up in Mechanicsville, the closest mall when I was growing up was Northside’s Azalea Mall. The mall built in 1962, was torn down in 1999. All that remains is a vacant lot, overgrown with weeds and littered with drifting trash. It was one of the first modern enclosed malls in the area, and much… Read more »
Cash crops
Manakintowne Specialty Growers is in the running to win $50,000 from a U.S. Chamber of Commerce video contest called Free Enterprise, and it’s a touching video worth watching.
Make way for Martin’s
Four reincarnated Ukrop’s supermarkets opened Monday as Martin’s Food and Drug stores, a division of the Dutch supermarket company that also owns the Giant chain. BizSense has a breakdown of what’s new and what not, plus some of the challenges the company faces in stemming declining market share and a slideshow of new layout.
SunTrust in talks to sell investment units
The Atlanta-based regional bank is in negotiations to sell parts of its institutional investment management business, which includes a local investment firm.
Monday Q&A: Can a mining company be ethical?
The tragedy at a Massey Energy mine in West Virginia has thrust the company’s brazen CEO Don Blankenship and his leadership style into the national spotlight. Blankenship for years chose to fight environmental and safety regulation rather than comply. Is that a good policy for a business? Late last week we chatted with Richard Coughlan, a professor and associate dean at University of Richmond’s business school who studies business ethics and business decision-making.
RBS Weekly Podcast for 4.9.2010
Just in time for your drive home at 5PM, its the RBS Weekly Podcast. This week we hit commercial real estate hard and cover everything from landlord lock outs, retail in Mechanicsville, and even break big news on our old friend the Qimonda semiconductor plant in Sandston. We also take a look at how Massey… Read more »
Development speeds back up along Mechanicsville Turnpike
As long as developers built new strip centers along the region’s major thoroughfares, such as Mechanicsville Turnpike, shoppers would come a-spending. Or so it seemed. Now retailers are signing leases again.
The Pipeline: Commercial real estate roundup for 4.9.10
Ironworks, a consulting services firm, leased 34,962 square feet in the office building at 10900 Nuckols Road in Glen Allen. Ironworks will relocate its headquarters from 4121 Cox Road into more space at Highwoods I Building.Groomer’s Mall leased 6,000 square feet at 1701 Oak Lake Ct. in Chesterfield.