“Beaverdam is just a different place. It’s rural. It’s got a character to it that people are very proud of,” Hanover Supervisor Jeff Stoneman said in voting down the project.
Hanover supervisors reject proposal for 1,500-acre solar facility
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New indoor farm at Meadowville Tech Park planting first crop this month
The first-phase farm is the start of what’s envisioned as a $300 million, multi-farm complex on a 120-acre campus in Meadowville Tech Park.
Virginia Rep hits emergency fundraising goal, expects to remain open
It looks like the show will go on after all for Virginia Repertory Theatre after the nonprofit raised the $600,000 it said it needed to avert a shutdown.
Southern Kitchen opens in new home at Stony Point mall
“It’s a win for both of us,” Southern Kitchen owner Shane Roberts-Thomas said of her restaurant and the South Richmond mall.
Chesterfield Food Bank planning bigger facility on Iron Bridge Road
The nonprofit is looking to double its current facility and is doing so with the helping of a local hotelier.
Eyewear retailer Warby Parker sets sights on Carytown for new store
The chain is taking over the recently shuttered Richmond Camera location. It’ll be Warby Parker’s second store in the region.
New-to-market grocery store to open near Courthouse and Hull Street intersection in Chesterfield
Grocery Outlet, which buys up other companies’ excess inventory and sells those products at a discount in its stores, plans to open in a former gym in the Oxbridge Square Shopping Center.
Panda Express drops $1.6M for site at Cosby Village development
The seller was an entity tied to Main Street Homes, which is developing the commercial center that is part of the larger Cosby Village mixed-use project.
Century-old company reborn with new business model near Scott’s Addition
“As you go out and you visit customers and you say, I’m Glen Baker, People look at you and they’re like, ‘I used to know a company named Baker Equipment,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that was my family,’” said Glen Baker.
GRTC to demolish East Belt building for new bus storage lot
The transit authority will redevelop a former church property for additional parking as eyes the rollout of new 60-foot articulated buses to operate on the rapid-transit Pulse line next year.