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Put your money where your mouth is
An Innsbrook diner is still serving milkshakes, cheeseburgers, pancakes and other classic American dishes, but the ingredients have changed. And the chain’s owners hope that patrons will pay a bit more for the dishes
Read More »The Herd: New hires and promotions for 6.23.10
A recent business school graduate who competed as a student entrepreneur joins Boxwood, plus moves in marketing and real estate.
Read More »NewsFeeds 6.23.10
Fredericksburg entrepreneur built portable sawmill (Freelance Star) One box contains a 5.5-horsepower Honda engine. Another contains the Lumber Smith’s innovative, cast-aluminum casing for a horizontal band saw that can cut boards as wide as
Read More »Insmed gets a warning
Local pharmaceutical firm's stock has been in the tank and faces being delisted
Read More »This is not your grandmother’s garden
Want all the goodness of a garden without getting your hands too dirty? Two entrepreneurs say they have the solution.
Read More »The dummy might soon be homeless
An office on the scenic 19th floor of a downtown office building is available for leasing after a Virginia-based investment firm shut down last month. But the dummy sitting in the entrance way is
Read More »Foreclosures 6.22.10
Another huge list of properties this week. Most have assessed values of less than $250,000, but a handful in Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico are much more expensive.
Read More »NewsFeeds 6.22.10
Small Chesterfield case sparks big discussion on proffers (Times-Dispatch) Two years ago, developer George Emerson requested a rezoning to add 65 apartments to the 300 already built at his Chester Village Green. After the
Read More »Bike to the future
Lots of businesses got their start downtown and moved out to the suburbs later on. Did you know Rowlett’s Bicycles was one of them? And that that they also sold boats and other sporting
Read More »Stuck in the middle
Well, it could be worse. According to the MetroMonitor, a quarterly report produced by the Brookings Institution, Richmond falls in the middle of the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. when comes to
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