Nonprofits

The Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia recently purchased the old BB&T building at 3214 Skipwith Road for $3.6 million. The nonprofit will relocate from its current home near Willow Lawn.

The nonprofit is now operating out of its new distribution warehouse at 8020 Villa Park Drive, having completed relocating its facilities from its former home on Rhoadmiller Street near The Diamond.

“Some of the seats, on the balcony especially, are original to the theater. It’s time for them to be replaced and we have plenty that are unusable right now,” said executive director Ben Cronly.

The Art Deco-style sign was erected Monday and is set to be illuminated for the first time tonight with a lighting scheduled at 6:30 p.m.

It looks like the show will go on after all for Virginia Repertory Theatre after the nonprofit raised the $600,000 it said it needed to avert a shutdown.

The nonprofit is looking to double its current facility and is doing so with the helping of a local hotelier.

“We can be even more powerful together,” said Kevin McQueen, a Sportable board member who’s joining CEO Hunter Leemon for his third fundraising ride in as many years.

“What I discovered here was a substantially worse financial situation than I had anticipated,” said its newly installed managing director. “Pretty quickly I reached the conclusion we had no available cash and some rather substantial obligations.”

The American Heart Association’s local arm is piloting a program that gives hair salon customers the chance to get blood-pressure checks along with their blowouts.

Lee Householder, CEO of Project:Homes, spends his free time playing and volunteering with the Richmond Pinball Collective, which has expanded its arcade in a bigger space.