Robbed of their spring semester and the summer internships they were expecting, a group of VCU students and Class of 2020 graduates are taking their adventures in advertising into their own hands.
VCU ad club’s ‘summer camp’ catches on nationally
Education
Glen Allen private school makes move to Lakeside
A small, 2-year-old Montessori school is trading Northern Henrico for Lakeside in a bid to get closer to its target student demographic.
City private school fast tracks move to Goochland to cut costs during pandemic
The relocation of Saint Gertrude High School is coming sooner than expected, pushed forward to this summer by the coronavirus pandemic.
VCU pays $11M for Greyhound land near the Diamond; delays New Kent ER
The deal amounts to just over $1 million per acre, and gives the school part of the land it needs for its planned athletic village. Meanwhile, it’s decided to pump the breaks on its $16 million emergency room in New Kent County.
Crane watch: VCU edition
With around $1 billion in ongoing construction projects between its Monroe Park and MCV campuses, VCU is among the biggest developers in Richmond at the moment.
Updated: VUU pays nearly $3M for motel site; mixed-use building, hotel considered
With the purchase, VUU President Hakim Lucas said, “We have said that we now control our environment, that we are going to be a player in the city, that someone else is not going to dictate how we expand and not going to dictate our future.”
Sprout School to take root in shuttered Manchester church
The school’s move will free up the YWCA to carry out a nearly $6 million renovation of its downtown facility at 6 N. Fifth St.
UR preps for opening of Gambles Mill Eco-Corridor
Thanks in part to a fleet of hungry goats, the restoration of a trail and creek that runs adjacent to the University of Richmond and the Country Club of Virginia is wrapping up.
Former Grubbs’ Auto shop reborn as VCU ‘Maker Garage’
Formula 1-style race cars and hyperloop pods now are being built where trolley cars once were worked on more than 80 years ago downtown.
VCU’s next big project: $121M STEM building
The school would raze the old Franklin Street Gym to make way for a six-story, 168,000-square-foot science, technology, engineering and math building.