Monthly Archives: December 2009 »
The Herd: Promotions and new board appointments for 12.16.09
Lots of board appointments and a few hires, including two new managers to run the local affiliate of Telemundo.
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GRTC sells property near Fan to RRHA for $5.4 million (Times-Dispatch) The GRTC Transit System has placed the future of its coveted, century-old headquarters near the Fan District in the hands of the Richmond
Read More »Va. ‘cul-de-sac ban’ named a top idea of 2009
New regulations in Virginia that deny road funding to subdivisions with too many cul-de-sacs was named one of the year’s most ingenious ideas by the New York Times magazine
Read More »Tech Review: Online Marketing the Easy Way
HubSpot delivers the most value to search engine optimization beginners. Tech savvy readers will say that you can cobble together a bunch of apps and programs to approximate most of HubSpot’s offerings for free
Read More »Mattress chain springs back
A New York mattress store wants to push farther South, adding 10 locations in Richmond.
Read More »Local consumers trim spending
A sharp decline in taxable sales for the region shows even though some economists have said the recession is over, consumers, at least locally, are continuing to shrink their spending. Still, there are some
Read More »NewsFeeds 12.15.09
A Virginia bank fails (Inside Business) The closure of Reston-based Greater Atlantic Bank came when yet another handful of failures were announced on Dec. 4, late on a Friday afternoon, as is the customary
Read More »VCU plans new med school building
Virginia Commonwealth University is getting a new medical school building. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners designed the building. The firm is known for several projects, including the East Wing of the National Gallery, the
Read More »Harris Williams hops the pond
Richmond-based middle market investment firm Harris Williams & Company has opened a seventh office — in London
Read More »Monday Q&A: Building an all-star team
This spring, three local real estate firms, Kiniry & Company, Shockoe Properties and Shockoe Commercial Properties, combined under one entity: the Shockoe Company. BizSense met with one of the company’s founding principals, Mark R.
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