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Shockoe Hill Apartments for low-income seniors to get $15M renovation
The Shockoe Hill Apartments in the 200 block of Hospital Street. (Jonathan Spiers photos) A senior apartment community in one of Richmond’s more imposing 19th-century structures is set to get a...
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Biotech firm Grenova to invest $10M, add 250 jobs at new Diamond-area HQ
Taking part in the groundbreaking were, from left: Secretary of Commerce and Trade Brian Ball, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, Gov. Ralph Northam, Grenova CEO Ali Safavi, Del. Jeff Bourne and Richmond...
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Updated: Amazon planning huge robotics fulfillment center near Richmond...
Work has started on the site where Amazon’s robotics fulfillment center will rise. (Jonathan Spiers photos) The checkered flag is out on Project Speedway, with online retailer Amazon first across the...
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More ‘parklets’ placed as pilot program rolls out with assist from LaDiff
The parklet in front of Stir Crazy on MacArthur Avenue. (Jonathan Spiers photo) Weeks after the first of the steel-structured platforms started showing up in front of city restaurants that requested...
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 4.27.21
A screenshot of Visual Appeal’s website for Nydella. Visual Appeal LLC completed a brand launch for Nydella, a clothing shop in Midlothian that opened in March. Work included logo design, website and...
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Council adopts plan to unload 77 city-owned properties, including Coliseum
Three of the city-owned properties included in the real estate disposition plan include, clockwise from bottom left: the Coliseum; the Public Safety Building at Ninth and Leigh streets; and the parking...
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Petersburg warns developer to repair or raze blighted hotel, or city will
A sign announcing plans for the building stands in front of the former Ramada Inn between East Washington and Wythe streets in Petersburg. (Jonathan Spiers photos) As it starts work on another building...
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A year into the pandemic, RIC’s passenger traffic numbers are taking off
The terminal lobby at Richmond International Airport. (Courtesy of Todd Wright/RIC) Year-to-year traffic counts at Richmond International Airport are starting to look less lopsided, with the numbers...
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Timmons Group adds offices in Newport News and Wilmington, N.C.
Timmons Group’s headquarters in the Boulders office park. (Courtesy of Timmons Group) After weathering the first year of the pandemic, a local engineering firm is getting more elbowroom with two new...
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Five-story mixed-use building planned near Northside brewery
A rendering of the proposed mixed-use building at Dawn and Tazewell streets. (Courtesy of Saunders + Crouse Architects) A former deputy chief administrator for the City of Richmond is representing the...
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Immunity research firm Aditxt to invest $31.5M in new downtown lab
Gov. Ralph Northam presents a Virginia flag to Aditxt CEO Amro Albanna alongside Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney at an announcement about a new lab. (Jonathan Spiers photo) A Silicon Valley-based company...
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Rebkee reduces housing planned for John Rolfe Parkway site
A rendering of the plaza planned at Church Road and John Rolfe Parkway. (Images courtesy of Henrico County) Less than a year after scrapping a previous proposal that called for more than 200...
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Sale of former driving range and golf course tees up $160M development
A site plan of Oasis Park, with the age-restricted townhomes on the eastern half of the site. (Courtesy of Chesterfield County) Shelling out millions for the former Oasis Sports Park property, a...
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Project Snapshot: Demolition starts for new Sphere apartments near VUU
Remnants of a U.S. Postal Service warehouse that had been on the site are piled beside the adjacent Spectrum Apartments. (Jonathan Spiers photos) As a pair of new apartment buildings take shape nearby,...
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Mansion on Goochland golf course was most expensive home sale in April
The French country-style house at 328 Rolling Lake Court. (Photos courtesy of CVRMLS) A local couple’s sale of their home at Hermitage Country Club was the region’s priciest residential real estate...
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 5.11.21
Elevation rebranded GrowRVA’s RVA BIG MKT, a Saturday farmers’ market at Bryan Park that was formerly the South of the James Farmers Market. (Courtesy of Elevation) Padilla made three promotions in its...
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Salomonsky plans 12-story tower on Weiman’s Bakery site in Shockoe
The Weiman’s Bakery building at 127 N. 17th St. (Jonathan Spiers photo) Once eyed as part of the baseball stadium proposal in Shockoe Bottom, the former Weiman’s Bakery property at 127 N. 17th St. is...
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Henrico apartment complex sells for $35M via endangered 1031 exchange
The entrance to the Maple Springs apartments off Hungary Spring Road. (Jonathan Spiers photos) While the fate of its business model hangs in the balance of a proposed federal cut to so-called 1031...
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International Mission Board plans 263 apartments by Monument Ave. HQ
The parking lot at Monument Avenue and Hamilton Street. Proposed apartments would also replace an existing office building, visible to the right. The Argon Apartments are to the left. (Jonathan Spiers...
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Renovations underway as Imperial Plaza phases out assisted living wing
Barry Zolty of Brentwood Investment Group at Imperial Plaza, which the new ownership is rebranding as Legacy at Imperial Village. (Jonathan Spiers photos) Two months after buying Imperial Plaza with...
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