“I always wanted a restaurant,” said Elegant Cuizines owner Theresa Headen. “Even when I first got the keys, I was crying because I couldn’t believe it was happening.”
Local meal-prep service pivots to brick-and-mortar restaurant downtown
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Mike Platania joined BizSense in December 2016. He covers commercial real estate, restaurants and breweries. He graduated from Virginia Tech. Reach him at [email protected] or (804) 554-6872.
8-story building to rise on Arts District lot on Broad Street
Bank Street Advisors is behind the project, which would be among the tallest to rise along that stretch in recent years.
Italian eatery takes former Morton’s steakhouse space in Shockoe Slip
What started as a pop-up is growing into a full-time restaurant that will fill the sizable location that’s been empty in the Turning Basin building since the start of the pandemic.
Sheet-canned: Rock band Three Sheets To The Wind launches wine business
The cover band’s Steely Can Wine started as a joke but is now a full-on Steely Dan-inspired company that began selling its canned wines last week.
Last call for Legend Brewing Co.’s Portsmouth taproom
The Legend Brewing Depot will pour its last beer Sunday. “There are a lot of various market pressures that have just not made it viable for us down there right now,” a company exec said.
Three-building downtown apartment portfolio sells for $29M
The seller, locally based Levco Management, had purchased the buildings and their 126 units between 2015 and 2018 for a total of $18.5 million.
New brewery in the works on Patterson in western Henrico
WayGone Brewery will open in the Canterbury Shopping Center next spring and will be the region’s 47th brewery.
Lee School Lofts in Museum District now on third owner after $10M sale
“We love these older, pre-war deals that are well-constructed to a standard that just can’t be replicated in the modern economy,” the buyer said.
Thalhimer unloads industrial park in Ashland for $41M
“Sometimes you got to sell. The market just seemed too frothy for us,” said Mark Slusher, principal at Thalhimer Realty Partners.
Stratford Hills to get a Sheetz
A building at the Southside shopping center will be razed to make way for the gas station and convenience store chain’s latest outpost.