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Guest Opinion: 10 trends you’ll see in 2011 — maybe

You might know him as the writer behind Richmond’s satirical site Tobacco Avenue (whose headlines appear in the Daily Email now and again), and this week Jeff Kelley has written a post for BizSense on the trends he wants to see in 2011.

Is this a cursed location now?

Justin French’s former headquarters on Cary Street in Shockoe Slip is for sale. The listing agent — Shockoe Company — told RBS that the asking price is $640,000 for the  6,144 s.f. building. In May BizSense ran a story about cursed locations. Is this now one of them?

NewsFeeds 10.14.10

Top 40 Under 40 2010 (Style Weekly) The young men and women changing Richmond. Auction of Justin French’s mansion postponed (Times-Dispatch) The auction sale of a Richmond mansion owned by a developer facing legal and financial problems was called off yesterday, as part of a moratorium on foreclosures imposed by the Bank of America. Underwater… Read more »

The Docket: Circuit Court Roundup for 8.30.10

A jammed packed Docket this week: A Chesterfield construction business alleges an employee spent $40,000 of its money on personal expenses, while several landlords are suing tenants for unpaid rent. Plus, a woman is suing the zoo in Chesterfield after she slipped while watching the giraffes.

In development feud, writing is on the wall

It’s not often that a spat over tax credits inspires graffiti artists. Developer Justin French said he supports the local artists who painted messages on the exterior walls of the Scott’s Addition industrial property they rent from him, messages not so subtly aimed at French’s tax credit purchaser for the renovated building at 1509 Belleville… Read more »