Construction is underway on a new 281,000-square-foot headquarters for the Virginia Department of Forensic Science and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia.
Project Snapshot: State agencies’ new $189M HQ going vertical in Mechanicsville
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‘Save Southside Speedway’ leader part of group vying to redevelop shuttered racetrack
“It’s a second home to a lot of racing people. I don’t think the county realized what that place meant to so many people,” said Lin O’Neill of the Save Southside Speedway movement that has advocated for a return of car racing to the venue.
Bon Secours, HCA duel over plans for new free-standing emergency centers in Hanover
The health systems each want to build new centers within a few miles of each other in eastern Hanover outside of the Town of Ashland, while HCA also is plotting a new hospital in the same area.
HCA planning $9M expansion and renovation project at Johnston-Willis
The expansion will make way for a new linear accelerator, a machine that’s used to treat cancer by beaming radiation at cancerous tumors.
Former CarLotz exec flips switch on electric-car dealership on Broad
John Foley has opened Recharged, which focuses on the sale of used electric vehicles, next door to the former original location of CarLotz.
Zero Empty Spaces brings rentable art studios to Stony Point Fashion Park
The company, which leases storefronts and then carves out within them multiple small rentable art studios, opened last month at the South Richmond mall.
Richmond Ballet to relocate in-house performance series to renovated VMFA theater
A driving force for the relocation is VMFA’s plans for a $190 million expansion and renovation project to its facilities, which includes improvements to the museum’s Leslie Cheek Theater, where the ballet will perform.
Bon Secours lists large rural retreat outside Lynchburg for nearly $7M
The health system was gifted the 1,500-acre rural estate in Amherst County from the late Frank Eck, a longtime Richmond attorney whose sister, Sister Pat Eck, was a member of the Bon Secours board of directors.
Sugar & Twine bringing back sit-down cafe with expansion into adjacent storefront
“I think we lost some of the hospitality that sets us apart from a drive-thru. There’s a necessity to bring people inside,” owner Beth Orcutt said of the expansion into the former Bits + Pixels space.
Sale of Richmond region’s medical pot provider is scrapped
Cannabis company Cresco Labs announced Monday that it is calling off its plans to acquire competitor Columbia Care, which controls the licenses to sell medical marijuana in the greater Richmond region.