The former Short Pump Circuit City, soon to house an hhgregg electronics store, isn’t the only one in the area to come back to life.
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Look who’s organizing now
Pro-business groups are taking a page from the grassroots playbook.
Inaugural Blue Ridge Marathon on the Parkway Announced
The inaugural Blue Ridge Marathon on the parkway will be held on April 24, 2010, beginning and ending in downtown Roanoke, with a tour of the region’s highest peaks in-between.
We want to feed you
The first person who correctly emails us all three variations of the ads cruising around downtown will win a free lunch at Capital Ale House ($25 value). We will come eat with you if you want, but that’s totally optional.
Reshaping the retail landscape
Frugal is the new black in Richmond. Total taxable sales during the second quarter totaled $2.64 billion for Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield combined, or 4 percent less the same quarter in 2008. But some local industries are doing better than last year.
Aloft Hotel Opens at West Broad Village
The 135-room Aloft Hotel at West Broad Village in Short Pump is finally open, after a recent dispute with developers.
Richmond Volleyball Club serves up new facility
The Richmond Volleyball Club last week purchased the 73,500-square-foot former Brown Distributing facility in Henrico for $2.4 million.
The Republic takes over Cabo’s, and other restaurant news
Several restaurants are popping up across Richmond, filling in vacant spaces and promising to add options downtown and in the Fan.
MeadWestvaco repackaging business model
Richmond-based MeadWestvaco, which will soon move into its shinny new headquarters downtown, is moving away from growing trees and making paper and into the packaging business. And profits were higher this quarter than last year, a pleasant surprise and encouraging sign for a region that has lost several major employers.
How about we share?
Some self-employed business owners are setting up office-shares to defray costs and to have warm bodies around to bounce around ideas. And three local entrepreneurs think they have a better alternative to the growing throngs of self-employed Richmonders who use Starbucks and Panera as their de facto offices.