Over the past six months, several big office users have signed leases at Innsbrook, pushing down the vacancy rate at Richmond’s biggest office park and signaling plans to add hundreds of workers.
Commercial Real Estate
Justin French’s office gets a new owner
Growing industrial engineering firm inherits most of the disgraced developer’s decor.
East Broad gets some love
Two developers are about to start rehabilitating two blighted retail buildings on East Broad Street with some financing from the City of Richmond.
Paragon Commercial Bank wades further into French’s wake
One of Justin French’s former banks is pressing hard to make sure they are first in line for repayment, this time asking the bankruptcy court to appoint a trustee — and fast.
Capital One finds you can go home again
The company is moving back to a building it emptied when it laid off hundreds of area workers.
Snagajob snagging new digs?
Local job-posting company Snagajob is looking to lease more office space in Innsbrook, according to sources close to the deal. The company recently raised $27 million in venture capital and plans to hire 100 employees.
A tiara, a sash and lawsuits against local restaurants
A new plaintiff is suing local businesses over wheelchair accessibility issues, but this one wears a crown.
Bank of America buying site in Eastern Henrico
A major employer in Richmond has plans to add a new financial services processing center in a mostly industrial part of Henrico County.
Local firm sues art museum architects
Hankins & Anderson says it was shorted hundreds of thousands of dollars for work on the newly renovated Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Investor gives building a future, finds treasure from the past
A half-finished apartment project left in the wake of the Justin French fiasco has been bought by an investor who plans to finish the project this summer.