The closure of James River Distillery comes about a year after the company sold its building to VCU, which needed the property for its planned athletics village near The Diamond.
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Up All Night Bakery snaps up former Early Bird Biscuit space in Bellevue
The storefront is trading biscuits for croissants but it won’t be open to the public anytime soon.
Strangeways Brewing headed to Williamsburg for newest taproom
The outpost near Colonial Williamsburg will be Strangways’ fourth, making it the only Richmond-based brewery to have a quartet of locations.
Former Lamplighter coffee shop reopens under new owners
Afterglow Coffee Cooperative, which took over the 1719 Summit Ave. space in Scott’s Addition, launched a cafe where it has been operating a wholesale roasting facility.
Richmond ice cream sandwich brand Nightingale flies into Walmart stores
“They’re trying to offer more premium offerings and they came to us,” said a spokeswoman for the Richmond-based company.
Shockoe Bottom brewery sponsors auto racing team to rev up marketing
Richbrau Brewing is about to begin distributing its beer after three years of selling it only at its taproom.
Midlothian couple has new winery, brewery on tap in Louisa County
Eight years after planting the first grapevines, Joe and Barbara Evers are opening Everleigh Vineyards and Brewing Co. about 45 miles west of downtown Richmond.
Startup that makes amputee clothing moving headquarters to Richmond
No Limbits was founded in Iowa but was part of Lighthouse Labs’ fall 2021 accelerator class. It will be featured in an April episode of “Shark Tank.”
Four more 1,000-barrel tanks added to Stone Brewing’s facility in Fulton
The new tanks increase the Richmond brewery’s capacity from 150,000 barrels of beer annually to 200,000 barrels.
Richmond establishes technology zone, raises BPOL tax exemption threshold
It took two and a half years, but Richmond now has a citywide technology zone. The specific benefits of that zone, however, still remain in the works. The Richmond City Council this week finally approved an amendment to the city code establishing a technology zone across the city. First proposed by Councilmember Andreas Addison in… Read more »