Lee Householder, CEO of Project:Homes, spends his free time playing and volunteering with the Richmond Pinball Collective, which has expanded its arcade in a bigger space.
Downtime: Project Pinball
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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$6M land deal telegraphs apartment project near Virginia Center Commons
Construction has started on a five-story, 279-unit apartment building across Telegraph Road from the former mall site after the deal closed last month.
Data center development planned for Azalea Flea Market site
A firm tied to the family that once ran Richmond Raceway is working with a data center developer out of Atlanta to rezone the site that’s hosted the local flea market for decades.
EDA OKs lease, development agreements with Flying Squirrels for new Diamond District ballpark
The agreements, which the parties have been negotiating for months, set the terms of the ballclub’s lease for the new stadium and the venue’s development by an entity tied to the Flying Squirrels’ parent company.
The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 8.13.24
Bud Light gets a new football-season spot from a downtown agency, and a state horseracing advocacy group’s locally filmed ad wins a Telly award. (BizSense Pro required)
Times-Dispatch to move out of downtown building next year
“Quitting #Rva after generations there would cut literal, figurative bond w/ our core audience,” the newsroom’s labor union tweeted about the paper’s decision to move from its longtime home on Franklin Street.
Unsolicited offer lands $2.7M off-market deal to top July home sales
“The market’s gotten more challenging, so I’ve been proactively reaching out to homeowners in certain areas where my buyers are looking,” said agent Laura Peery, who brokered the deal near CCV’s James River course.
VUU apartments plan to preserve part of hospital building, add 100 more units at Brook and Lombardy
Plans unveiled Thursday show six-story apartment buildings at Brook and Overbrook roads, with part of the 1930s-era Richmond Community Hospital building worked into one of them.
West End mansion returns to market less than a year after $6M sale
“They just want to do something different,” agent John Martin said of the mystery seller, who listed the Hampton Gardens home for a half million dollars more than they bought it for 10 months ago.
15-home infill planned beside centuries-old Grove Ave. house
The proposal from Center Creek Homes would retain the existing house and adds to two other residential infills in the works a block away.