Food-related businesses fueled much of the local startup scene this year, while several young companies raked in sizable capital raises for their next phases of growth.
Don’t miss this recap of a busy year in the local retail scene, as some of Richmond’s longer-tenured retailers passed the torch to new leaders, shifted focus on other lines of business and expanded their footprints.
Projects ranged from tweaks to the sales floor to cosmetic changes at the market, which sells a variety of prepared foods, fried chicken and pizza, baked goods and other items.
With plans for a portrait-taking station and arcade, Mugshot Coffee will feature a portrait-taking station and arcade, in addition to the usual coffee shop fare.
After nearly two years of regulatory wrangling to try to build a medical campus on a large site near Ashland, HCA appears to be moving on.
“Fusion is the process that happens inside the stars. On Earth, when we get it to work, we’ll use it to make electricity in fusion power plants. That electricity will be clean, it’ll be (reliable), it’ll be safe,” said the CEO of MIT-born Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
The agency moved into the Deep Run III building, which formerly was part of the campus of now-defunct electronics retail giant Circuit City.
Whisk will take over the space in the state library that was formerly occupied by Can Can Cafe, a now-shuttered spinoff concept of Carytown-based French restaurant Can Can Brasserie.
The company, which sold products like lip gloss and lipstick, pointed to inflation and a tightened investor capital market as reasons for its closing.
The nonprofit that runs Henricus Historical Park is embarking on the project while continuing its search for additional funding support to make up a shortfall created earlier this year.
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