“Hot Tomato Summer” highlights menu items at local eateries that pair the hometown brand with tomatoes and a nonprofit will benefit.
Duke’s Mayo launches event to drive traffic to Richmond restaurants
Nonprofits
Metropolitan Business League expands with new outpost in Petersburg
The City Point Innovation Resource Center at 325 Brown St. will serve as an incubator for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Curtain rising on Virginia Rep’s first show since COVID pandemic began
The nonprofit theater company is reopening with “Ella and Her Fella Frank,” an imaginary concert of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra in Heaven.
Bid goes out to reinvent old Six Points BofA building in Highland Park
An RFP has been issued to propose ways to redevelop and reuse the 4,800-square-foot building that the banking giant vacated four years ago.
3D-printed home to rise on Richmond’s Southside in pilot project
Virginia Housing, which provided $500,000 to buy the automated device that prints with concrete, estimates it could lower construction costs by 10 percent.
For-sale homes rounding out Armstrong Renaissance redevelopment
The section of attached and detached homes is the final phase of the 256-unit development, part of a larger revitalization of the nearby Creighton Court.
Baby clothing nonprofit grows into new office in Shops at Stratford Hills
Little Hands is distributing donations to 80 children in need per month compared to 25 per month before the pandemic.
Four nonprofits turning Manchester warehouse into shared headquarters
The Boys and Girls Club, First Tee of Greater Richmond, Communities In Schools of Richmond, and Higher Achievement’s Richmond office are moving in together at 100 Everett St.
Better Housing Coalition buys former motel property in Chester
The site of the now-razed Colbrook Motel where it plans to build income-based housing was listed in “The Negro Motorist Green Book.”
Housing nonprofit marks five years by launching new rent-to-own program
The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust uses city grant funds to set aside homes specifically for would-be buyers who do not qualify for a mortgage.
