On Friday the VCU School of Business hosted an economic panel featuring Jeffrey M. Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Steven A. Markel, vice chairman of Markel Corporation; and John R. Nelson, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Altria Group. The panelists answered questions from students and fellow executives about… Read more »
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NewsFeeds 4.20.09
Arts at W&M will cost $355 million (Virginia Gazette) Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall and the Muscarelle Museum will be razed within a decade for massive fine arts and performing arts complex pegged at $355 million. Most area banks profitable in 2008 despite economic crisis (Roanoke Times) National Bank of Blacksburg earned a record $13.6… Read more »
Dave & Buster’s to debut at West Broad Village
Dave & Buster’s, a restaurant chain based in Dallas, is opening their first Virginia location at West Broad Village in Short Pump. The grand opening is scheduled for April 20. The new restaurant will employ about 150 people The driving concept behind Dave & Buster’s is their “Million Dollar Midway” which features video games, racing… Read more »
Guest Opinion: The road ahead for Shockoe Bottom
David Napier says Shockoe Bottom has come a long way and a new baseball stadium could help that growth. GRTC’s proposed transit may not.
NewsFeeds 4.17.09
Virginia Tech amps up alternative energy research (Roanoke Times) Heat a hospital with grass? Erect a wind turbine near downtown Blacksburg? Experts at Virginia Tech are working on these and other projects in an amped-up bid to advance energy technology, a college official said Thursday. After the Bank Failure Comes the Debt Collector (NY Times)… Read more »
Payday at Altria
Being the CEO of Altria doesn’t pay quite like it used to — but that’s partly because the value of the company’s stock isn’t what it used to be.
Ah, perfect weather for a Tea Party…
Like their tax-despising brethren around the nation, thousands of protesters showed up yesterday at Kanawha Plaza in Downtown Richmond for the Richmond Tea Party.
Anderson Strudwick sold
Anderson Strudwick will officially lose its independence. After a false start, the locally-based financial services firm will be acquired by a Tennessee-based financial services company. The price tag on the deal has not been released. Anderson Strudwick’s president George Nolde confirmed in a phone message yesterday that shareholders at the company, which was one of Richmond’s last independent brokerages, approved a stock sale this week to Wunderlich Securities.
NewsFeeds 4.16.09
State set to issue stimulus contracts for highways (Times-Dispatch) The state will award the first contracts, worth about an estimated $111 million for highway paving work, in May. President of Hampton Roads Bankshares resigns (Virginian-Pilot) Three and a half months after becoming president of Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc., D. Ben Berry resigned abruptly, the Norfolk-based… Read more »
“B-Dubs” Short Pump Location Opens
Buffalo Wild Wings, more affectionately known by its fans as “B-Dubs,” has finally opened their Short Pump location. After much anticipation from the community, as apparent from a Twitter page, the doors opened Monday morning at 11:00 a.m. for lunchtime. The popular wing joint’s next closest location is at Broad & Hungary Springs Road, about five miles east of Short Pump.