Five Richmond-area businesses are each $5,000 closer to implementing plans they presented in a recent a “Shark Tank”-style competition.
Export pitch winners import cash prizes
Education
Catholic school taking over former Benedictine building
A new local private school will pick up in the Museum District where another left off several years ago.
Richmond developer, wife boost VT real estate program
A pair of local Hokies is making a $2 million investment in one of their alma mater’s newest courses of study.
$92M addition slated for VCU School of Engineering
The university is gearing up for its next major construction project, filling out a corner of one of Richmond’s busier intersections.
ICA director steps down ahead of opening
Just three months shy of its scheduled debut, VCU’s long-anticipated Institute for Contemporary Art has lost its leader.
Developers sue VSU over Petersburg office lease
An office deal gone sour has resulted in a group of developers taking the local university to court over seven figures’ worth of alleged back rent.
VCU signs Long & Foster as latest corporate sponsor
The five-year, six-figure deal includes naming rights for a room in the athletic department’s Basketball Development Center, in addition to advertising and event sponsorship opportunities.
VCU PR course provides ‘Agency’ work to area nonprofits
The new class is giving public relations professionals-in-training some real-world experience while providing area nonprofits with free PR services.
Nonprofits team up to launch ‘recovery high school’
St. Joseph’s Villa and the McShin Foundation are combining their expertise to help local students affected by what’s been labeled a national epidemic.
VCU bites off another piece of W. Cary
Tinkering students from the university’s engineering school soon will be getting their hands dirty in an old downtown auto shop.