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.
Ukrop’s wrapping up upgrade project at Market Hall
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‘Amusement portraiture’ coffee shop now open near Rockwood Park
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.
HCA pulls zoning request for Hanover campus, weighs relocation of planned surgical center
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.
‘The world’s first’: Startup plans multibillion-dollar fusion power plant in Chesterfield
“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.
Virginia’s cannabis regulator moves downtown HQ to Henrico
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 bakery to open cafe in Library of Virginia next month
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.
Local beauty products startup LipLoveLine ceases operations
The company, which sold products like lip gloss and lipstick, pointed to inflation and a tightened investor capital market as reasons for its closing.
Henricus to build new replica of colonial home amid search for more funding support
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.
Little Wish Toys planning to open store in Jackson Ward
Owner Shan Habbas is planning to relocate Little Wish next month to 319 Brook Road from Chesterfield Towne Center, where the toy shop has been based in PopUp RVA’s vendor market.
Local startup Qnovia closes on $16M raise to take nicotine inhaler to U.K. market
The funding will primarily be allocated toward the submission of an application to British regulators to allow for the commercialization of the company’s RespiRx nicotine inhaler in the United Kingdom.
