A double scoop of news: Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches is adding production space in South Richmond, while Roanoke-based Blue Cow Ice Cream launched its first local store.
Nightingale plans expansion; Blue Cow opens West End ice cream shop
Retail
Penny’s Wine Shop to join reopened Stoplight Gelato in Jackson Ward
The store is an offshoot of delivery service Richwine and will share the Brook Road building with the gelato shop, which is set to reopen after a two-year closure.
Chesterfield County approves grant agreement for $323M surf pool-anchored development
Developer Brett Burkhart called the board’s vote a “major milestone” and said it was the final piece needed to get the years-in-the-making project moving.
Stratford Hills to get a Sheetz
A building at the Southside shopping center will be razed to make way for the gas station and convenience store chain’s latest outpost.
Commercial section of Cosby Village lines up first tenants
The 20-acre section along Hull Street Road is planned to have 122,500 square feet of retail, dining, office and medical office space across 14 buildings.
Peter-Blair menswear store up for sale; Libbie Market adds new owners
The two West End stores, which sit a block from each other, are each working through their own version of an ownership change.
Big-box sporting goods chain leaps into Short Pump
Texas-based Academy Sports + Outdoors opened in the former Toys ‘R’ Us-Babies ‘R’ Us combo store.
Virginia brewers plot legislative leap to allow self-distribution
“For small brewers, this is a really, really big deal,” Brett Vassey, CEO of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild, said of the group’s efforts to tweak the entrenched “three-tier system.”
Libbie Mill-Midtown adds event space, retail shop combo as newest tenant
“It’s multi-use for sure,” said Blu Hazel co-owner Yedda Stancil. “Casual, in home, sip and shop, shop while someone sips.”
CarLotz brand to be retired in merger with San Francisco peer
The deal combines two companies with a lot in common: both sell used cars, both have had huge losses in the last year and just replaced their CEOs, and both have lagging stock prices.