Bong Butler plans to cash in on the legalization of recreational marijuana by removing residue from the devices used to smoke it.
It’s no pipe dream: Entrepreneurs launch bong cleaning service
Richmond
Developers under contract to buy downtown YMCA properties
George Emerson and Phil Roper plan to add apartments to the Y’s existing building on Franklin and its adjoining parking areas.
Mom’s Siam owners cooking up a new restaurant in Short Pump
MPM will take over the long-vacant former Carolina Ale House and Mimi’s Café building at 11275 W. Broad St. in West Broad Village.
Former LeClairRyan attorney Matson starts 44-month sentence immediately
A key question during Monday’s hearing was why the former attorney and bankruptcy trustee would steal millions of dollars only to let the funds sit unspent in a bank account.
Electric truck manufacturer Rivian rolling into Richmond
The company just had a $12 billion IPO. Now it has three Virginia facilities in the works, including one just west of Scott’s Addition.
VPM acquisition revives Style Weekly
A public media nonprofit now owns the longtime Richmond alternative newsweekly, which ceased operations in September after a 39-year run.
Rehab to add second floor to old West End Market building in Byrd Park
Four apartments will be built and a new neighborhood market will take most of the ground floor at 2200 Idlewood Ave.
Online retailer Shelley’s Gift Shop opens physical location near VCU
After 16 months of e-commerce largely with out-of-state customers, the owner said a local following created the need for a Richmond store.
Subway sits atop Richmond’s fast-food chain
The sandwich chain has more than 50 percent more locations in the Richmond market than its closest competition.
All eyes on Massey Energy
It has not been a good week for Richmond-based Massey Energy, a company that mines coal in Virginia and West Virginia and ships coal on trains through Richmond. The company also has local legal representation. And Massey sells coal to Dominion Virginia Power for producing electricity, although the mine where an explosion this week killed 25 miners and left four missing produced a different kind of coal used in plants to smelt metals.
