The transactions followed Churchill Downs Inc.’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of Peninsula Pacific Entertainment, which reopened the New Kent County racetrack in 2019.
Colonial Downs, Richmond Rosie’s sell to Kentucky Derby owner for $138M
Sports & Recreation
Texas-based escape room chain opens in Short Pump mall
Red Door Escape Room offers six room concepts, including fairy-tale adventure Once Upon A Time and Captain Maniacal’s Lair-Bratorium, in which participants build a robot for a mad scientist.
No Phil, no problem for this week’s PGA tournament at CCV
Ticket sales, sponsorships and other metrics are peaking for this year’s Dominion Energy Charity Classic, despite the absence of suspended marquee name Phil Mickelson.
Local M.D.’s golf cocktail startup in full swing with new distribution deals
“Sitting in the dark room reading x-rays and MRIs… I like it, it’s a great career. But being out on the golf course talking cocktails is a dream come true,” Turner Lewis said of his new side gig, Fore Craft Cocktails.
Northside private school nears completion of $5M gym expansion
“The Activities Center was built in the 1990s when our enrollment was roughly a third of what it is today,” said New Community School’s Dan Stackhouse. “We have far outgrown the existing space in terms of enrollment but also in the size and scope of our health and wellness programs.”
Brewery owner aims to revive long-shuttered Jordan Point Golf Club
The golf course has been closed for seven years after falling into foreclosure, but an owner of the neighboring Holy Mackerel just bought it for $3.5 million.
New operator of local Planet Fitness gyms adding two more locations
The gym chain is taking over an empty Best Buy store in Mechanicsville and a portion of the former Martin’s in Stony Point Village.
‘It’s going to be night and day’: Flying Squirrels, VCU look ahead to new ballpark
Having waited for this since arriving in Richmond in 2009, Flying Squirrels President Lou DiBella and COO Todd “Parney” Parnell said they’re chomping at the bit to get the design process started.
With pedestrians in mind, CCV acquires home at St. Andrews and Three Chopt
“The acquisition of the property was opportunistic and not the product of a strategy of the club to acquire property near the club,” it said in a recent letter to members.
Unanimous council vote approves Diamond District development plan
While a needed seven-vote majority seemed to be secured going into Monday’s meeting, the vote was uncertain and displayed a coming together among councilmembers who have been divided on past proposals.
