Short Pump has shopping. It has restaurants. Now a local developer wants to bring trampolines, zip lines and climbing walls to the busy commercial district. An investor group that includes local development firm Stanley Shield Partnership is planning a 40,000-square-foot adventure sports facility at 205 Towne Center West Boulevard, just west of Short Pump Town… Read more »
A fast-growing chain of high-tech driving ranges could soon land in the Richmond market. Topgolf, a Texas-based company known to spend upwards of about $25 million on its three-story golf and entertainment facilities, is on a rapid nationwide expansion plan and confirmed last week that it has Richmond on its list of potential markets. “We… Read more »
For its third outpost in the Richmond market, a national fitness brand is hopping into Midlothian. Pure Barre, a brand of ballet barre fitness studios, is opening a new location at 1282 Alverser Plaza Drive, just off Huguenot Road. Franchisees Sarah Love and Robin Moncol have leased the 2,200-square-foot space formerly home to Café Caturra…. Read more »
In a bid to further hone its business model as a so-called public country club, a local golf course has struck a deal with an area fitness chain.
Call it Mother Nature: 1, giant bubble: zero. Last month’s blizzard meant game over for the inflatable bubble-like dome that encloses one of the turf fields at Sports Center of Richmond, a soccer complex off Overbrook Road, near the Diamond. Accumulation and frigid temperatures from the two-day storm proved too much for the structure to… Read more »
Consulting can be tough a gig, but lately, landing a Lutz is what’s been keeping Angela Edwards on her toes. The president and CEO of Castle Thunder Consulting in Glen Allen spends her days advising and coaching businesses in finance healthcare, retail, construction, manufacturing, IT and other industries. Most of her other waking hours are… Read more »
A Richmond fitness franchise that caters to moms has a new owner. Natalie Russell last month purchased the franchise rights to operate the Fit4Mom brand in Richmond and Midlothian. Her territory includes 19 ZIP codes in the Richmond metro area. Russell said the franchise was purchased from a friend for an undisclosed amount. As its name… Read more »
A trio of cyclists recently opened a shop in Forest Hill — but alongside bikes and gears, they decided to throw in a dash of a small neighborhood market.
This year brought plenty of new large gym chains and smaller fitness startups to the Richmond scene, providing lots of potential starting points for that New Year’s resolution.
A new yoga studio dedicated more to spiritual health than physical fitness is moving into an old public bath house in Shockoe Bottom, where it will also incorporate the medical side of yoga.
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