A rival fair operator wants to capitalize on the downfall of the State Fair of Virginia and be up and running in 2012.
A fair play
Nonprofits
The business of blood
One of its biggest and longest-standing local hospital clients of Richmond’s hometown blood supplier has severed their relationship.
Fairgrounds fiasco
Redeveloping the land won’t be easy, especially if Wayne Acors and the Caroline County Board of Supervisors have anything to say about it.
State fair shuts down after 150 years
A victim of a poorly timed stock sale that locked in enormous losses, the State Fair of Virginia is no more. Its 360-acre fairgrounds in Caroline County will be auctioned off.
A chorus of Cupid
If you want to go the more creative route on Valentine’s, here’s an option that might hit the right note.
Comrades in farms
Caroline County wants everyone to know where it stands on the threat of foreclosure to a historic horse farm-turned-state fairground.
After a fallow season, market is set to sprout
The Center for Rural Culture, a nonprofit that promotes and educates local farmers, is bringing back the popular Goochland Farmers Market.
State fair creditor paints grim picture
ArborOne, a South Carolina lender on tens of millions of dollars of bonds owed by the fair, wants the court to let it keep its right to take action, which could include foreclosing on the 360-acre Caroline County property the fair calls home.
Virginia State Fair seeks bankruptcy protection
The nonprofit company that operates the fair filed for Chapter 11 after failing to work out a deal with its lenders to restructure the $83 million it borrowed to develop its new fairgrounds in Caroline County.
Local nonprofits snag $1.3 milllion in grants
Life just got a little sweeter for nearly 50 non-profits in the Richmond area.