The funds were authorized as part of a contract that gives the ownership group of the Richmond Flying Squirrels more say in the new stadium’s design.
EDA pitching in $1M toward Diamond District ballpark design
Jonathan Spiers
Jonathan joined BizSense in 2015 after a decade of reporting in Wilmington, N.C., and at the Henrico County Leader. The Virginia Tech grad covers government, real estate and other news.
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Lingerfelt guiding plan for five new industrial buildings in eastern Henrico
The office and warehouse buildings would add more than 250,000 square feet of industrial space off Williamsburg and Charles City roads.
Open House: The highest-priced home sales of 2023
The year saw some of the priciest home listings and sales in Richmond in years, but it was a pair of estates with sizable acreage in the counties that topped this year’s list.
Ad Rewind: 2023’s memorable marketing moments
From an animated mayonnaise wrestling match to Snoop Dogg serving as a smokeless “smokesman,” Richmond’s ad output in 2023 was full of surprises.
2023: The year that revealed VCU Health’s bad real estate deal
The events that led up to it were years in the making, but it was over the course of this year that the controversial and costly downtown development deal was revealed and unraveled.
83-unit apartment building for seniors in the works in Swansboro
Housing nonprofit Project:Homes is behind the $20 million project, which will rise five stories and replace a century-old former coal storage facility on the site.
Return to ‘The Ice’: Local surveying firm resumes work near South Pole
Local surveyor George Nyfeler recently returned from a weekslong stint in Antarctica, where his company is on the second leg of a four-year job.
Work underway on 81 townhomes at long-vacant John Rolfe Parkway site
Previously called John Rolfe Mews, the renamed Shire Walk development will fill out a tract that’s remained empty since Henrico realigned the parkway’s intersections with Pump and Church roads.
Hotel to rise beside Tom Leonard’s store in Short Pump
A 119-room TownePlace Suites by Marriott is set to rise on the site that was once floated for a Carvana “car vending machine” tower.
18th-century house for sale with $2.9M downtown land listing
Enlarged from a cottage that dates to the 1780s, the solitary Woodward House along Williamsburg Road is included in the listing that’s marketing the 2-acre property for development.
