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Injunction halts eight-home infill on Riverside Drive
A security guard’s car blocks access to the site along Riverside Drive, where work was stopped this week due to a court injunction. (Jonathan Spiers photos) Concerns from neighbors that rock blasting...
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At $6.5M, West End listing sets high mark in the city
The 10,000-square-foot house at 5105 Stratford Crescent hit the market last week at $6.5 million. (Photos courtesy CVRMLS) On the heels of a $7 million sale in Goochland County last month, a...
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Project Snapshot: Woolridge Landing taking shape near Swift Creek Reservoir
Development is progressing for Woolridge Landing, a 120-acre project taking shape near Swift Creek Reservoir. (Photos courtesy StyleCraft Homes) Five years after it was first proposed, a scaled-down...
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June’s top home sales included two at more than $800K over asking
The stone house at 205 Massie Road in Windsor Farms was the priciest sale in June. (Photos courtesy CVRMLS) For the second month in a row, the region’s highest-priced home sales included two that sold...
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Creative Q&A: Ad Person of the Year, Charles Hodges of Arts & Letters
Charles Hodges at Arts & Letters’ office in the Power Plant at Lucky Strike building in Shockoe Bottom. (Jonathan Spiers photo) When Charles Hodges founded Arts & Letters Creative Co. in 2017,...
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Diamond District developer unloads Henrico apartment complex for $34M
The townhouse-style apartments were built in 1972. (Images courtesy Millspring Commons) For the fifth time in nine years, an apartment complex in western Henrico is once again in the hands of a new...
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 7.11.23
The Martin Agency, then known as Martin & Woltz, created the ‘Virginia is for Lovers’ campaign for Virginia Tourism in 1969. (BizSense file photo) Virginia Tourism Corp. named two new agencies of...
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3-2 vote advances planned industrial buildings near ‘Project Rocky’ site
Renderings of similar facilities that Crescent Communities has developed through its Axial brand. (Images courtesy Crescent Communities) Plans for a pair of industrial buildings near the “Project...
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Project Snapshot: New buildings rise at Westminster Canterbury
A screenshot of this month’s construction update video shows the new structure taking shape beside Westminster Canterbury’s nine-story Tower building. The most visible phase of a multiyear expansion at...
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Martin Agency bows out as lead ad firm for Virginia Tourism office
A “Virginia is for Lovers” sign appeared outside The Martin Agency’s headquarters in late 2017, when the agency won the Virginia Tourism account. (BizSense file photo) After a five-year run as the lead...
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CCV-fronting house sells for $4M in city’s priciest sale in years
The house at 6124 Saint Andrews Lane overlooks CCV’s Westhampton course. (Photos courtesy CVRMLS) Just weeks after a smaller house across the street sold for nearly $1 million over asking price, a...
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Medalist CEO and president out, shareholder named interim chief exec in REIT...
Hanover Square North shopping center is Medalist’s lone local holding. (BizSense file) A changing of the guard has played out at a publicly traded Richmond real estate firm after months of pressure...
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Developer duo planning hundreds of income-based apartments near Southside...
A site plan shows the seven buildings that would house the apartments near the intersection of Walmsley and Broad Rock boulevards. (Image courtesy Spy Rock Real Estate) Note: This story has been...
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Downtime: Sportable’s Hunter Leemon pedals for nonprofit in 500-mile bike ride
Hunter Leemon at a practice for the River City Rumble Wheelchair Rugby Tournament, one of Sportable’s newer events held last weekend at Highland Springs High School. (Jonathan Spiers photo) When Dan...
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The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 7.25.23
A flyer that Springstory and theMSQshop produced for Shockoe Records for an upcoming concert. Springstory and theMSQshop were hired by Shockoe Records to provide PR, event promotion and creative...
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HHHunt land deals set stage for South Richmond project, Innsbrook townhomes
A conceptual site plan for Kinwick shows the townhomes between the detached homes and a preservation area along Walmsley Boulevard. (Images courtesy HHHunt Communities) As it buys up more lots for a...
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Do-over casino referendum appears to be a go with Tuesday court order
A rendering of Urban One’s proposed casino and resort on Philip Morris-owned land off Interstate 95. (BizSense file) After narrowly rejecting the question two years ago, it appears that Richmond voters...
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City releases proposed rule changes for Airbnb-style rentals
A 2022 map of identified short-term rentals in the city show the greatest concentrations in the Fan and Museum districts, Jackson and Monroe wards, Church Hill and Shockoe. (BizSense file) A...
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Two former Richmond public works employees plead guilty to defrauding city
The Richmond City Hall building. (BizSense file) Two former senior officials with Richmond’s public works department are among three people who have pleaded guilty in recent months to conspiring to...
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Planned 84-acre industrial park near Oilville would cross Goochland-Hanover line
The site at 1468 Pony Farm Road, where a 14-lot industrial park is planned. (Image courtesy Commonwealth Commercial) A pair of sizable industrial projects are up for deciding votes in Goochland,...
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