New office, retail and residential buildings with thousands of apartments are in the works across the region despite the pandemic.
Richmond development roundup for 2020
Education
VCU snaps up Salvation Army property across from The Diamond
The university is planning an athletics village that may include a fieldhouse, tennis center and a baseball stadium for the Rams and Flying Squirrels.
Former art teacher opens kid-centric studio of her own in western Henrico
Happy Palette offers art classes for children and a place for them to be social during the pandemic.
Incubator launched to give Richmond’s Black entrepreneurs a boost
“For the Black community, it can be hard to take full advantage of programming that is targeted at you but is run by people who don’t look like you,” said Jackson Ward Collective co-founder Rasheeda Creighton.
Richmond startup launches at-home support service for virtual students
The founders of Direct Learning Solutions hope to land the business of parents willing to pay someone else to supervise and assist their children with virtual learning programs.
$25 million renovation and expansion begins at UR’s Ryland Hall
The World War I-era building will be expanded from 27,600 to 39,100 square feet to make room for the classical studies and philosophy departments and create a humanities hub.
Local private school enrollment spikes as parents avoid virtual-only classes
Many Richmond-area private schools were flooded with applications as public schools pivoted to online instruction.
Small Virginia colleges, university foundations sought relief through PPP loans
Nineteen small private and for-profit colleges and universities in Virginia applied for a combined range of $22 million-$55 million from the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
‘The revenue picture for us remains unclear’: VCU expects drop in enrollment; no furloughs planned
VCU officials expect that enrollment will be 10 percent lower for the coming academic year, which translates into a $55 million drop in tuition revenue.
VCU ad club’s ‘summer camp’ catches on nationally
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.