A retired tobacco executive’s moves from the city to the country and back again can be traced through three of the priciest homes sold in the Richmond area this year, though none of them made the top spot on this list.
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 12.27.22
A local agency is named brand creative lead for a Texas-based distillery, a whiskey brand gets a new ad from a Richmond firm, and an area restaurant group gets updated websites.
Off the Clock 2022: A year’s worth of Downtime
From cross-country cycling to fishing to kiteboarding, Richmond’s business people continued to find their own ways to keep their work lives balanced in 2022.
Updated: Diamond District runner-up among five respondents to City Center solicitation
Also vying for the project are local firms Capital Square, Shamin Hotels and Sterling Bilder
City awarded $11M grant for Shockoe interpretive center at Main Street Station
The grant from the Mellon Foundation is the biggest award yet through its Monuments Project, which doled out an additional $5 million for five other local projects.
Nearly 10,000-square-foot home under construction in Windsor Farms
The new home, a rarity in the largely built-out neighborhood, is replacing a smaller house that was recently demolished.
Lingerfelt sells 11-building portfolio in and around Innsbrook for $119M
The portfolio includes nine of the 16 buildings that the company had owned in the area, including five properties that it had rezoned last year to allow for infill apartment developments.
Baskervill broadens footprint with new offices in Charlotte and Denver
The openings follow an expansion to Gdańsk, Poland, the firm’s first office outside the U.S.
The city deeded 15 properties for low-income housing. Only half are buildable, nonprofit says
The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust is seeking to return six of the parcels back to the city, after having spent a $20,000 grant on engineering and legal fees to assess the properties.
The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 12.13.22
A founding member of Arts & Letters’ leadership team takes a job with the Brandcenter, a production studio hires a chief growth officer, and a local bedroom furniture store rebrands with help from an area firm.