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The Agenda: Local government briefs for 12.23.19
Mayor Levar Stoney gives remarks at the opening of the renovated Child Protective Services room. (Photos courtesy Whitney Campbell/ENV) Businesses, nonprofits pitch in on city foster care room...
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Off the Clock 2019: A year’s worth of Downtime
Clockwise from bottom left: Gary Le Clair, Andrea Levine, Nigel Williams and Harold Vega. (BizSense file photos) From tending an olive farm along the French Riviera to competing in bodybuilding...
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Open House: The highest-priced home sales of 2019
The 13-acre estate at 2 Red Fox Road includes a pool and putting green. (Photos courtesy CVRMLS) In the same 12-month period that saw the long-anticipated sale of what for years had been the...
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The year in Navy Hill news: What happened, what’s next
Dominion CEO Tom Farrell discussing the project in January. (BizSense file photo) The biggest economic development project ever proposed for Richmond had an eventful but sometimes rocky 12 months in...
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Ad Rewind: 2019’s memorable advertising and marketing moments
Richmond’s ad industry output kept flowing in 2019, with TV spots promoting local car companies, pro bono work for area nonprofits – even images that made it on a series of U.S. Postal Service stamps....
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 12.31.19
Tom Maher’s winning work consisted of underwater portraits of seven company dancers for Richmond Ballet’s 2019-2020 season brochure. The Martin Agency landed Twisted Tea as a client. The hard-iced-tea...
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Shaia completing 200-unit apartment project in Mechanicsville
The first of Cambridge Square’s five buildings opened in December. (Photos by Jonathan Spiers) An area developer who’s been on an apartment hot streak in Hanover County is opening the doors to his...
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Short-term home rental rules go to city planning board Monday
A map showing short-term rental operations in March of 2018. (Courtesy Richmond Planning & Development Review) Having tweaked their proposal following months of public feedback, city planners are...
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Midas warms up new Scott’s Addition store
The Midas of Richmond storefront along North Arthur Ashe Boulevard. (Photos by Jonathan Spiers) A year after committing to a new store in Scott’s Addition, a local car care chain is getting a brief...
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The Agenda: Local government briefs for 1.6.20
Short-term home rental regs, other requests go before city planning board The Richmond Planning Commission meets Monday at 1:30 p.m. Business on the regular agenda includes a public hearing on proposed...
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Goodbye ‘Barber Martin,’ hello ‘Yebo’
The Yebo team outside its Scott’s Addition office, which now displays the agency’s new name. (Photos courtesy Yebo) One of Richmond’s longer-running ad agencies has taken on a new moniker, inspired by...
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Remodeled apartments round out Sugar Bottom
Matt Jarreau, left, and Casey White in front of the apartments they upgraded with John Humphries (not pictured). (Photos by Jonathan Spiers) A revival of a once-overlooked stretch of street in the...
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City Council lays out timeline for Navy Hill decision; public hearings start...
An aerial rendering of the proposed new arena and the surrounding buildings. (Courtesy navyhillrva.com) Following weeks of work sessions, months of town hall meetings and hearings, and years of talk...
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Lawyer couple’s purchase of Clear View mansion tops December home sales
The Clear View mansion at 5901 River Road. (Photos courtesy CVRMLS) The year in local million-dollar home sales finished strong in December, with several seven-figure deals topping a month that also...
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Deputy economic development director parts ways with city
Jane Ferrara in 2016 at a meeting with developers about potential redevelopment of The Diamond site. (BizSense file photo) A longtime player in the City of Richmond’s economic development department is...
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The Agenda: Local government briefs for 1.13.20
The DuPont plant at 5401 Jefferson Davis Highway. (Courtesy WTVR CBS 6) DuPont to invest $75M in Chesterfield site DuPont announced it will modernize and expand its manufacturing and technology...
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Breaking News: CoStar in talks for new office tower within Navy Hill development
Should the Navy Hill development come to fruition, its backers have at least one large office tenant lined up for the project. Mayor Levar Stoney announced at a press conference Monday that commercial...
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 1.14.20
West Cary Group hired Courtney McAfee as a senior account manager. The VCU graduate was previously owner of former Carytown shop Orange. Mark Poirot was been hired as senior director of the agency’s...
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Updated: CoStar in talks for new office tower within Navy Hill development
CoStar CEO Andy Florance provides remarks alongside, from left, Richmond economic development director Leonard Sledge, Mayor Levar Stoney, NH District Corp.’s Tom Farrell, and City Council member Ellen...
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‘It’s a great piece of dirt’: Developers hungry for Boulevard RFP
An aerial shot of the area surrounding The Diamond. (BizSense file photo) While a proposed redevelopment of the Richmond Coliseum and adjacent downtown area has dominated headlines in recent years,...
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