Restaurants

Erin Powell, who started the business in 2014, is selling the company and its location at Village Shopping Center in Henrico to Chelsea Binder.

Sarah and Jeremy Chapman are reheating an expansion plan they had put on the back on the burner during the pandemic. 

A national chain of to-go coffee spots with more than 100 location has its eye on Chesterfield, and has indicated interest in at least two stores in the county.

“I’ve been looking at (that area) for years but just waiting for the perfect moment,” Macias said of what will be his seventh restaurant in the region.

The chain is planning to convert the long-vacant former Wells Fargo branch near Glenside Drive. It’s one of several former bank branches in the region it has reinvented as coffee shops.

Fresh off the opening of its first Richmond-area restaurant in June, the New York-based burger joint is back for seconds.

The company, formerly called Little Bean Coffee Co., is launching a franchise model to expand around Richmond, elsewhere in Virginia and into the Carolinas.

The 2,000-square-foot restaurant with drive-thru would rise on a half-acre site that’s currently a parking lot nestled between Jared, The Container Store and Barnes & Noble.

The 4-acre food truck park from local entrepreneur Phu Nguyen is aiming to open next month as a new amenity for the office park and making use of unused land that’s planned for eventual development.

More Blizzards are in store for Chesterfield, as the fast-food chain is planning its third location in the county.