“As I was growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, it was a very dynamic economy there, with tobacco, textiles and furniture. All three have gone out of existence. I want to try to find another cash crop to replace tobacco.”
Retail
Foot Locker plots return to the city – and to Broad Street
Running against the current in a tough time for traditional retail, a national chain is sizing up Richmond for a potential expansion.
Hourigan eyes redevelopment of Southern States silos site in Manchester
A towering but aging feature of Manchester’s riverfront is being eyed for redevelopment.
Carytown’s Need Supply to permanently close
The clothier, which has been a fixture of Carytown since the 1990s, is shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Rebkee, Blackwood file plans for two mixed-use projects near Short Pump
Two mixed-use developments proposed at prominent crossroads on opposite sides of Short Pump are slated to receive initial scrutiny from Henrico planners this week.
Therapy in store for former Cha Cha’s space in Shockoe
The son of the longtime owner of Tony’s Barbecue is making his own leap into the restaurant business, taking over the spot left vacant last year by Cha Cha’s.
Food hall falls through in Scott’s Addition
The pandemic has knocked a D.C.-based firm’s plans for a Veil Brewing Co.-anchored food hall on Belleville Street off the table.
One clothier set to open, another returning in Jackson Ward
A pair of local clothing companies are looking to add to the fabric of Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood with store openings in coming weeks, one of them picking up where it left off before the coronavirus arrived.
Carytown yoga studio closing for good
Stretched to the brink by the coronavirus shutdown, a longstanding local yoga studio will close permanently in July.
$290M Courthouse Landing project OK’d in Chesterfield
Six months after receiving an initial thumbs down from the county, a reworked version of a hotel-anchored development that would bring hundreds of new homes and other uses to central Chesterfield has secured the approval of county supervisors.