Consider yourself warned, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Two of Short Pump’s original higher end grocers are ready to fight to retain their upscale shoppers. Tom Leonard, who owns a farmer’s market on Brookriver Drive, behind Best Buy, may not have prime Broad Street frontage, but it doesn’t seem to affect his business. Just across… Read more »
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If it ain’t broke, don’t touch it!
In 16 years of working on cars, Ronnie Bowen has never seen it so slow. Or seen so many motorists opt for the bare minimum to keep their cars on the roads. “The economy is so bad, people are not even doing preventative repairs. They’re fixing what has to be fixed so they can still… Read more »
Pipeline: Commercial Real Estate Roundup for 10.10.08
Thalhimer reports the following transactions: Owens & Minor Medical, Inc. has purchased 50 acres of land within Atlee Station in Hanover. The land was purchased from Media General, Inc. for $5,398,650. Owens & Minor has purchased the land as an investment for future use. The Richmond-based company distributes medical and surgical supplies to hospitals and… Read more »
State buys Main Street Centre for $49 million
The state of Virginia has purchased Main Street Centre for $48.8 million The 420,575 square foot Main Street Centre, located on the corner of 6th and E. Main Streets downtown, has been sold by Brandywine Realty Trust. The building was built in 1986 and houses the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce among other tenants.
Text a question, get an answer from ChaCha
The Monday Tech Review: A new search service acts like your personal Googler for when you’re not at your computer. Users call or text in questions to ChaCha (1-800-2ChaCha or 242242), then sit back and wait. A ChaCha employee, called a Guide, receives the query and scours the internet for the best possible answer. About… Read more »
West-End pasta shop closing doors
Western Henrico’s Cavanna Pasta will cease operating a stand-alone pasta shop by the end of the year. Jonny Cavanna, who has lost money almost every month on the pasta store since opening in the summer of 2004, said he is looking for an industrial location where he can continue to prepare food but avoid the… Read more »
A model for surviving a slowdown
Despite a local dip in advertising spending, a Richmond model agency says business is steady. Modelogic Inc., a Church Hill model and talent agency that provides faces, bodies and voices for advertisements, represents about 450 models and actors from around the region and works with clients ranging from the Virginia Lottery to VCU to the… Read more »
Boxwood Partners completes first M&A transaction
RICHMOND, VA (AUGUST 19, 2008) – Boxwood Partners, LLC is pleased to announce the strategic sale of Non Metallic Resources, Inc. (NMR) and Seal-Tech, Inc. to Southfield RPS Holdings, Inc., d/b/a Reinforced Plastic Systems (RPS), a portfolio company of Southfield Capital Advisors. Boxwood Partners acted as the exclusive advisor to both NMR and Seal-Tech with… Read more »
Is the Chamber worth joining
John Scott used to be a tireless networker. A vice president at Closed End Fund Advisors , Scott was at one time a member of the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, an assistant director of his Business Networking International (BNI) group, the director of his university’s alumni group and a member of the Rotary Club…. Read more »
There’s hope for Hull Street yet
What was once a main street of Chesterfield County, Hull Street is now the most run-down commercial strip in Richmond. Paper flyers and food wrappers get caught in the wind and ride aimlessly until they find themselves back on the ground – a sort of urban tumbleweed. Centuries-old buildings have busted out windows and boarded-up… Read more »