Monthly Archives: December 2009 »
Robious Sports and Fitness changes its name
Robious Sports and Fitness, which was bought in September by the Richmond-based Boxwood Capital Partners, will be getting a new name to accompany a $1.5 million renovation
Read More »Ukrop’s to sell 25 stores for $140 million
After more than 72 years, the Ukrop’s family is out of the retail grocery business. Royal Ahold, the Dutch supermarket operator that owns the Giant chain of grocery stores, will buy 25 stores from
Read More »Happy trails
More than a hundred people gathered at the Great Ship Lock Park in Richmond this morning for a ribbon-cutting ceremony of a stretch of the Virginia Capital Trail
Read More »Time for the rescue club
The Federal Club, a new bentgrass golf course in Hanover County, is losing about $50,000 a month and owes more than $16 million. Can its owners save their dream
Read More »NewsFeeds 12.17.09
Va. Beach offers $160,000 to keep abrasives plant, 140 jobs (Virginian-Pilot) Virginia Beach officials voted Tuesday to give $160,000 in economic development funds to Hermes Abrasives Ltd. in a bid to persuade the firm
Read More »Wait, 2009 was a good year for downtown projects?
For a year in which the economy almost collapsed, downtown Richmond had a pretty decent run. Real estate pros gathered in the renovated CenterStage to ooh and ahh at projects completed, and what may
Read More »Bumped from the top ten
Richmond has dropped several places on the annual best cities for business rankings put out by MarketWatch. The city fell from number five to number 14 on the list. The best city for business
Read More »Reaching for an investor
A Richmond entrepreneur wants to raise $500,000 to film an infomercial about his stretching machine, called the ProFlex. Tiger Woods uses it, although the inventor may not want to use that in his marketing
Read More »The kids (and their loans) are our future
Fifty-eight percent of college students in Virginia graduate in debt, according to a new study on higher-education borrowing trends. Students owe an average of $19,747. Plus, find out how much graduates owe from schools
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