Moseley Architects extends reach southward with acquisition
Moseley Architects’ headquarters at 3200 Norfolk St. in Scott’s Addition. (Courtesy of Moseley Architects) Having tested out the waters there over the past year, a Richmond-based architecture firm is...
View ArticleChester apartment complex buyer sells Midlothian apartments for $67M
The 296-unit Belvedere Apartments sold for what amounts to $227,500 per door. (Photos courtesy of Pegasus Residential) Note: This story has been revised from its original version. Two weeks after...
View ArticleCosby Village development rolling with new commercial section planned
An aerial rendering of Cosby Village Square, a commercial section of Cosby Village planned along Hull Street Road. (Images courtesy of Timmons) The next stage of a massive multiuse development taking...
View ArticleCity to purchase Loving land for Shockoe slavery commemorative site
The properties near Main Street Station planned for a slavery commemorative site include the old Loving’s Produce building. (Jonathan Spiers photo) Five months after Mayor Levar Stoney announced a...
View ArticleThe Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 12.29.20
NBC12 Marketing won five awards in the Promax Awards’ 2020 North America competition. It won gold and silver awards in the branding/image news station category, as well as a gold for weather...
View ArticleAd Rewind: Richmond’s memorable advertising and marketing for 2020
2020 presented new challenges for Richmond’s marketing problem-solvers, with the pandemic requiring agencies to rethink their approach to campaigns and how they’re produced. But that didn’t seem to...
View ArticleOpen House: Richmond’s highest-priced home sales of 2020
This 261-acre estate at 8899 River Road in Henrico sold for $10 million, the priciest home sale in 2020. (BizSense file photos) With a record-breaking buyers’ market that defied the pandemic through...
View ArticleBizSense Features: A year’s worth of Downtime and Creative Q&A’s
An Airstream renovation was a welcomed distraction for two local architects, and for their sons and their friends. Creativity in work, and in working from home, was a necessity in 2020, as the pandemic...
View ArticleSpree of Chesterfield apartment deals continues with $55M sale
The Meridian Watermark apartments at 6500 Caymus Way. (Photos courtesy of NorthMarq) Add 300 more apartments to the wave of multifamily real estate deals that closed out 2020 strong in Chesterfield...
View ArticleNewly built Northside apartment complex sells to local buyer for $84M
The Canopy at Ginter Park apartments in Richmond’s Northside. (Courtesy of Colliers) In their second such deal in as many years, a local real estate firm has picked up a Tennessee-based builder’s...
View ArticleFederal Club mansion, Westhampton penthouse top December home sales
The home at 14854 Elliot Ridge Way topped December sales at $2.5 million. (BizSense file photos) A local tech company founder’s move around town accounted for two of the area’s top three home sales...
View ArticleRichmond’s bike share expansion braked for pandemic but rolling again
An RVA Bike Share station in 2019. (BizSense file) Two years after it got underway, a long-planned expansion of Richmond’s bike share program has been further prolonged by the effects of the pandemic —...
View ArticleLibbie Avenue townhomes vote deferred but nearby infill project advances
An elevation rendering of the two rows of townhomes Eagle Construction is planning on Libbie Avenue. (BizSense file) Two residential infill proposals a stone’s throw from one another in the Westhampton...
View ArticleThe Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 1.12.21
Arts & Letters Creative Co. released a spot for Google Photos featuring Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger parodying the band’s song, “Photograph.” Adweek has more on the spot here. Assets for the...
View ArticleAttorney: Loving family opposed to city acquiring Shockoe properties
The properties near Main Street Station planned for a slavery commemorative site include the old Loving’s Produce building. (BizSense file photos) Efforts by the city to acquire land in Shockoe Bottom...
View ArticleNegotiations with city for development of Public Safety Building site in home...
A rendering of the proposed office tower and complex that would replace the Public Safety Building. (Courtesy of Capital City Partners) More signs are pointing to a prospective sale of city property...
View Article580-home development planned at old Henrico Plaza Shopping Center site
An aerial shot of the Henrico Plaza site, which has remained mostly vacant since its namesake shopping center was demolished in the mid-2000s. (Courtesy of Spy Rock/Crescent) The remnants of a shopping...
View ArticleLovings open to city buying, not ‘taking,’ Shockoe land, attorney says
A rendering of the slavery museum planned between the train tracks and the interstate. The Loving-owned land is east of the tracks. (Courtesy of SmithGroup) The family whose land holdings are at the...
View ArticleRichmond planning director Olinger abruptly resigns after decade
Mark Olinger fields questions at a 2019 meeting on proposed short-term home rental rules. (BizSense file) Correction: Deputy Director Kevin Vonck was hired in August 2020. An earlier version of this...
View ArticleProposed 310-unit apartment complex would complete loop road at Midlothian...
A site map shows the Coalfield Reserve apartment buildings’ configuration along a future section of Walmart Way. (Images courtesy of Housing Studio) An apartment complex planned behind the Walmart and...
View Article