Worth Higgins & Associates, a commercial printer based in Richmond, has expanded by buying a Northern Virginia printer and hiring a handful of workers from a shuttered local competitor.
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NewsFeeds 4.7.09
Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out (Washington Post) The recent surge in the Washington area’s defense-contracting workforce would begin to ebb under Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s latest budget proposal as the Pentagon moves to replace legions of private workers with full-time civil servants. Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing (USA Today) The… Read more »
Local firm nominated for Business Week award
Impact Makers, a local healthcare and IT consulting firm, is finalist for a Business Week Social Entrepreneurship Award. The company is among 25 finalists out of more than 200 nominees. Business Week will announce five winners on May 2, which will be chosen by an online vote. So what makes Impact Makers a social entrepreneur?… Read more »
Q&A: Will banks start lending with a boosted Govn’t guarantee?
As part of the White House strategy to jump-start small business lending, the federal government increased the guarantee amount on loans backed by the Small Business Administration and eliminated fees. (Read about that here.)
NewsFeeds 4.6.09
Bank takes back King William housing project (Times-Dispatch) Like a lot of developers, Ingalls borrowed to finance work on the King William project, which was to start with a 55 lot subdivision called Marle Hill Section IV before moving onto two other phases, called Liberty and West Liberty. And, like a lot of developers, he… Read more »
New restaurant opens at West Broad Village
Pizza and pasta chain Ledo Pizza has opened the doors of their new West Broad Village location. The Adelphi, Maryland-based pizza parlor has been around since 1955 but is new to the Richmond market. While there’s no shortage of pizza joints in Short Pump, Ledo has something you won’t find anywhere else: rectangular pizzas. “People… Read more »
NewsFeeds 4.3.09
S-A-T-I-R-E Agee’s Bicycle Jingle Added To Local Man’s iPod Playlist (Tobacco Avenue) Agee’s, a nearly 100-year-old Richmond institution with three locations in the greater metropolitan area, has run television and radio spots with the same jingle since 1987. CarMax 4Q profit rises on lower expenses (AP) CarMax Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit jumped 72… Read more »
Home builders call cul-de-sac rules a dead end
It’s the end of the road for the cul-de-sac. New regulations will greatly reduce the number of the bulbous-ending streets allowed in neighborhoods, and Virginia home builders say the move will hamper their business. The requirements were passed last month by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, which establishes policy for Virginia’s transportation system.
Chesterfield foreclosures down slightly in January
Chesterfield County’s real estate market hasn’t escaped the foreclosure bug, but it’s not as bad as in other parts of the state. According to RealtyTrac, there were 186 new foreclosure filings in the county in January, the last month for which data are available. That’s 10 more than were reported at the same time last… Read more »
NewsFeeds 4.2.09
Star hitches its wagon to patent case (Times-Dispatch) The Petersburg-based tobacco company has been losing money for years as it pushes its vision of safer tobacco. But it has pulled in nearly $100 million from investors, including some professional fund managers who specialize in small, thinly traded stocks, during the past five years on a… Read more »