Michael Thompson

Local publisher aims for new heights

New Heights

A new Colonial Heights magazine is betting its mission to be an antidote to negativity will pay off in the competitive local media business.

Grocery store set to plant itself in the Fan

Hunter Hopcroft

It was a moment of “disenchantment and inspiration” that led Hunter Hopcroft to leave the world of downtown finance to try his hand as a neighborhood grocer in the Fan.

Q&A: The force behind Restaurant Week

Aline Reitzer Acacia

When she’s not running her Cary Street restaurant, Acacia, Aline Reitzer is busy perfecting the recipe for another growing local enterprise.