Monthly Archives: June 2010 »
The Pipeline: Commercial Real Estate Round Up for 6.25.10
Kroger sold aretail building in Chester to the C.F. Sauer Company for $2.39 million. The 55,552-square-foot building was operated by Kroger until 2007 when it relocated the store to a different shopping center. Plus,
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Chester-based Uppy’s Convenience Stores chain is sold (Times-Dispatch) Private-equity firm Catterton Partners acquired a majority interest in the Chester-based chain, which operates 44 stores in Virginia, for an undisclosed sum. Old Point carries out
Read More »As if you don’t see enough commericals
While you pump gas you can’t really go anywhere. I guess that’s why it makes sense advertisers would want to run commercials on video screens attached to gas pumps. Especially advertising yummy snacks that
Read More »SportsQuest-like plan in ’03 would have needed public funding, report found
Style Weekly reported earlier this week that a study produced by a consultant that specializes in convention centers and sports facilities (you can read the 120-pager here) concluded that a project similar to SportsQuest
Read More »Homearama comes back to Richmond
After a 16-year hiatus, a new home extravaganza meant to entice buyers is back in town.
Read More »Way beyond ‘paper or plastic?’
More than 150 future Kroger employees are at the grocer’s training center on Staples Mill. In July, they will work at the new 86,000-square-foot store at the Corner at Short Pump, which is part
Read More »Inside the SEC filings of publicly traded companies
CarMax stock jumps 9 percent on solid quarterly earnings, and executives at other publicly traded companies across town exercise stock options. And one bank director sold stock for $0.01 a share. Plus Genworth sells
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S-A-T-I-R-E IndyCar Series Announces Monument Avenue 400 (Tobacco Avenue) The IndyCar Series will race along the Richmond street for the first time in May 2011, according to a press release from the Indianapolis-based organization.
Read More »The quest to define ‘creditworthy’
A lot has been written in the national media about the ongoing credit crunch. We want to investigate the lending situation here in Central Virginia.
Read More »Local bank looks to raise $15M
Central Virginia Bankshares said Friday that it wants to raise up to $15 million to replenish its depleted capital reserves. But the bank will likely not be making many new loans until it is
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