The local title company entangled in an embezzlement investigation is now under the control of the State Corporation Commission.
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Trading Day: Inside the SEC filings for 12.22.2011
An executive at one of Richmond’s biggest companies is retiring, and her successor will get a bump in pay. Plus two local executives are awarded huge stock options, and CarMax is back on the road looking for new locations.
A grim redecorating project
A recently bankrupt local furniture retailer wants to clean house.
The R&D Dept.: Local Patents for 12.21.11
A patent for an electric can opener this week. Plus, some highly technical patents from local inventors working for IBM, Sony, Honeywell and others.
Rug business cleans up
A local developer and a Northern Virginia rug cleaning company purchases the business interests and commercial real estate of a prominent bankrupt Richmond couple at auction. And already one developer is planning to put in apartments in Oregon Hill.
After a fallow season, market is set to sprout
The Center for Rural Culture, a nonprofit that promotes and educates local farmers, is bringing back the popular Goochland Farmers Market.
Dominion is finally out of the rough
After almost a year, the bankruptcy of the Dominion Club is finally coming to end.
Richmond lags in economic recovery
There hasn’t been enough growth here to offset the blow of losing major employers such as Qimonda, Circuit City and LandAmerica.
A foxy investment
A high-end residential development in Chesterfield is getting a shot in the arm from a local private equity fund that is bullish on local real estate.
Anderson Strudwick winds down
An Alabama brokerage closed Monday on its purchase of one of the last Richmond-based brokerage houses.