With the purchase, VUU President Hakim Lucas said, “We have said that we now control our environment, that we are going to be a player in the city, that someone else is not going to dictate how we expand and not going to dictate our future.”
Two years after he was forced to part ways with the company that he led for five years and called home for a quarter century, former Martin Agency CEO Matt Williams has re-emerged on Richmond’s advertising scene, in a role that in some ways is bringing his career full circle.
Hanover takes some time on its review of an appeal of an industrial park site plan, Goochland opens a new agricultural center and launches related initiatives, and several high-profile projects across the region go before boards this week.
Just weeks after a fire ignited within it, a privately owned landfill in eastern Henrico County appears headed for closure after losing its request for the state’s highest court to take a second look at its permit revocation.
In the face of the daily temptations of his rotisserie-chicken-centric restaurant chain, owner Harold Vega drops weight and tones up for his pursuit outside of the kitchen: a subset of bodybuilding known as competitive men’s physique.
The expanding national grocery store chain plans to build a 1.1 million-square-foot facility, beside the Hanover County airport, that is expected to create 700 jobs.
Plans for an industrial park in central Hanover County are prompting a challenge from a neighboring subdivision, whose residents are wary of sharing a two-lane road with truck traffic that would be routed directly across from the neighborhood’s main entrance.
A state assistance program for judges and lawyers gets a new website from a local firm, a personal training company in Henrico gets a promotional assist, and two downtown agencies add to their ranks in the latest roundup.
Already busy on other projects throughout the region, a newer name in the Richmond area’s residential development scene is getting going on its next subdivision, on the first tract of land it purchased as a company.
A 500-home project proposed off Brook Road in Henrico faces a deciding vote, Hanover mulls a proposed industrial park and an appeal of an approved one, and Chesterfield pulls from BPOL tax revenues to beef up economic development efforts.
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