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A Chesterfield County community earns top marks from Southern Living Magazine, the Richmond Symphony brings home major grant money, and more news in retail, philanthropy and craft brews.

A Northside private school’s bid for $8.3 million in debt to help finance expansion plans got a boost, as did City Hall health food options.

Richmond’s eight Fortune 500s remained on the magazine’s annual list of the nation’s largest companies this year, with all but one improving their rankings from last year.

It was another packed house at the latest installment of BizSense’s quarterly series, held Wednesday evening at the former Symbol Mattress factory site in Scott’s Addition — view the slideshow.

A year after buying a piece of a local chocolate maker, Dan Steiner is in deal-making mode again, this time acquiring a bookkeeping competitor.

Cliff Fleet, who until recent weeks led the cigarette-manufacturing arm of local tobacco giant Altria Group, is no longer with the company.

Part of a local nonprofit’s long-term plan to redevelop its Broad Street campus has won the blessing of Richmond City Council, as did a re-designation of several Fulton Hill properties.

The Richmond Symphony lands a grant, Aldi opens in Midlothian, and a consulting firm is recognized by Forbes Magazine in this month’s roundup.

With her co-conspirator already behind bars, a local tax preparer now is facing a federal prison sentence of her own after pleading guilty to bilking the government out of more than $800,000.

When the chairman of Hirschler Fleischer isn’t busy playing classic rock with his band on the weekends, you’ll probably find him at his winery or teaching yoga around town.