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Project Snapshot: $26M apartment tower ascends at Broad and Lombardy
The Ascend RVA building at Broad and Lombardy streets rises 12 stories above the intersection, the limit allowed under the city’s TOD-1 zoning. (Photos by Jonathan Spiers) Correction: Rental rates for...
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Developers converge on The Diamond for pre-proposal site visit
Attendees at Wednesday’s site visit discuss the project with the Flying Squirrels’ Todd “Parney” Parnell, second from left, and VCU Athletics’ Ed McLaughlin, center. (Jonathan Spiers photos) With less...
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Double or nothing? Richmond City Council weighs casino vote do-over
Urban One’s proposed casino and resort was pitched for Philip Morris-owned land just off Interstate 95. (BizSense file) After losing its bet last year on a voter-approved casino, the City of Richmond...
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 1.25.22
Yebo launched a new campaign for Virginia Lottery. The statewide campaign, which continues through March, promotes new game Cash Pop with animated number-characters by Richmond studio Hue & Cry....
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City Council rolls dice and puts rejected casino proposal on ballot again
Urban One’s proposed casino and resort on Philip Morris-owned land just off Interstate 95. The Richmond City Council voted Monday to put the project to a second vote by residents. (BizSense file) Less...
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Joyner moving HQ to Reynolds Crossing
The Reynolds Office Building at 6641 W. Broad St., where Joyner Fine Properties is taking 16,200 square feet of space on the first floor. (Photo courtesy of Joyner Fine Properties) One of the area’s...
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Frank Cava’s ‘100 Affordable’ initiative aims to build low-income rental homes
Frank Cava, right, with Cava Cos. Vice President Eddie Dooley outside the Delaware Avenue house that kicked off his firm’s ‘100 Affordable’ initiative. (Jonathan Spiers photos) After a decade of...
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Richmond starts process to revise Airbnb-style home rental rules
A map of identified short-term home rentals in the city show the greatest concentrations in the Fan and Museum districts, Jackson and Monroe wards, Church Hill and Shockoe. (Courtesy of the City of...
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Long & Foster real estate team acquires peer, expands footprint
Heirloom Realty Group’s David Cooke, left, with Kyle Yeatman at The Yeatman Group’s Centerpointe office. (Photo courtesy of The Yeatman Group) In its seventh year with industry giant Long & Foster,...
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Spec industrial warehouse planned on Pruitt-owned site near Varina High
The industrial warehouse planned by Ashley Capital would have a similar design to other speculative buildings it’s developed in recent years. (Images courtesy of Henrico County) An industrial warehouse...
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City Council adopts City Center plan that starts with Coliseum demolition
A conceptual map of the city blocks and properties involved in the city’s new City Center plan and their potential uses. (Images courtesy of the City of Richmond) A plan for Richmond’s City Center –...
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Henrico supervisors OK 1,600-home Avenlea development in Short Pump
The residential neighborhoods of Avenlea would feature a variety of housing styles and designs. (BizSense file images) One of the larger developments proposed in Short Pump in recent years has received...
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Which development firms are eyeing Diamond District? Here’s a rundown
The 60-plus acres of the Diamond District are bordered by Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Hermitage Road, the interstate and the railroad tracks. (BizSense file images) Less than two weeks remain before initial...
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Downtime: Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s ‘plant parent’
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden CEO Brian Trader with some of his personal plant collection that he’s brought into his office. (Jonathan Spiers photos) It might come as no surprise that the head of a...
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 2.8.22
Pages from Punch’s careers catalog for Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority. Punch collaborated with copywriter Maryann Neary-Gill on naming and branding for locally based Bowerbird Energy...
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Marchetti-led group plans 10-story tower across from Libbie Mill
The 10-story building, as it would appear from the Wawa parking lot next door, would include eight stories of apartments above a two-story podium parking deck. (Images courtesy of Henrico County) A...
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Top 5: Windsor Farms home leads January sales with $2.5M price
The house at 108 Penshurst Road in Windsor Farms led home sales last month at $2.5 million. (Photos courtesy of CVRMLS) Two months after buying what turned out to be the second-priciest home to change...
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Project Snapshot: Hundreds of homes rising along I-95 near GreenCity site
Site work for ReTreat at One has cleared land along Telegraph Road and beside I-95, visible in the distance. (Courtesy of Stanley Martin Homes) A massive residential development underway in northern...
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Creative Q&A: Martin Agency’s Danny Robinson’s quest for a threepeat
Danny Robinson, Martin Agency’s chief creative officer, beside a mural in its offices with an image of Mike Hughes, the late creative director who recruited him to the agency. (Jonathan Spiers photos)...
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City weighing increase to BPOL tax exemption threshold for businesses
Richmond is weighing an increase to the BPOL tax exemption threshold for businesses. (BizSense file) Looking to keep pace with neighboring counties and lessen the city’s tax burden on small businesses,...
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