Burl Rolett

Two developers who abandoned their original idea for an old tobacco company space downtown are ready to move forward with a plan to convert the decrepit buildings into more than 70 apartments.

A run-down East End mall is on track to be razed and replaced with a new town center development.

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery has struck a distribution deal to get its beers on taps and store shelves in Washington, D.C. It’s the three-old company’s second expansion outside of Richmond.

A Three Chopt Road retail strip center has a new owner. A church buys a massive warehouse. A lawn and garden supply distributor comes to Virginia with a 40,000-square-foot space in Henrico County.

One of Richmond’s largest malls will soon have a new owner as part of a Connecticut REIT’s billion-dollar shopping spree. When the deal closes later this year, it will be the third local mall to have an ownership change since 2013.

A Chinese paper company has picked Chesterfield County for its first advanced manufacturing operation in the U.S. It will invest pump $2 billion over the next five years and the plant is expected to create 2,000 jobs over time.

A local real estate company has a deal in the works to acquire a management portfolio of 71 single homes, six commercial properties in Fredericksburg.

Developers Louis Salomonsky and David White got the city planning commission’s approval for their next apartment venture, a nearly 180-unit complex near the Diamond. The project may include a mixed use section, depending on the future of baseball on the Boulevard.