http://www.richmondbizsense.com Richmond's Homepage For Business News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:55:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/30/top-innovators-of-2009/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/30/top-innovators-of-2009/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:39:11 +0000 Aaron Kremer http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=14404 Some entrepreneurs have a vision of something that doesn’t yet exist. Then they take the gamble and invest time and money into creating it. We’ve picked seven of the most innovative business people to highlight. Surely there are others, and we will be working hard to find them and write about them in ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/30/top-innovators-of-2009/feed/ 11 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/28/deal-to-buy-baseball-team-expires-soon/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/28/deal-to-buy-baseball-team-expires-soon/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 15:59:32 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=7930 The current deal for the Richmond Baseball Club to buy the Connecticut Defenders is going to expire, the investor’s spokesman told the Norwich newspaper The Day: Peter Boisseau, spokesman for Richmond Baseball Club LC, which had a deal to purchase the Defenders for $15.4 million and move the team to Richmond, said this morning there ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/28/deal-to-buy-baseball-team-expires-soon/feed/ 0 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/19/study-says-city-support-needed-for-ballpark/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/19/study-says-city-support-needed-for-ballpark/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 10:35:55 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=7640 After reviewing the results of a $100,000 economic feasibility study, Mayor Dwight Jones still isn’t quite ready to greenlight a $318 million mixed-use project in Shockoe Bottom]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/19/study-says-city-support-needed-for-ballpark/feed/ 3 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/12/the-wrong-baseball-debate/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/12/the-wrong-baseball-debate/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 15:01:36 +0000 Aaron Kremer http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=7444 The debate about bringing baseball back to Richmond somehow got sidetracked into a tangential spin cycle. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/12/the-wrong-baseball-debate/feed/ 1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/11/baseball-team-purchase-in-limbo/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/11/baseball-team-purchase-in-limbo/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 16:32:27 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=7399 The purchase of the Class AA Norwich Connecticut Defenders baseball team by the Richmond Baseball Club seems to be undergoing a delay of game. Norwich’s local paper The Day reported yesterday that there is no closing date scheduled for the deal, which current Defenders owner Lou DiBella said was “imminent”  in early April. The sale ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/05/11/baseball-team-purchase-in-limbo/feed/ 1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/03/10/richmond-baseball-club-set-to-take-over-defenders-lease/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/03/10/richmond-baseball-club-set-to-take-over-defenders-lease/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:35:56 +0000 Al Harris http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=5456 Last month, Bryan Bostic of Richmond Baseball Club LC announced they planned to buy a AA baseball team in Connecticut to replace the AAA Richmond Braves. Their plan to buy  the Connecticut  Defenders is closer to becoming a reality, despite no guarantee that the stadium slated for Shockoe Bottom will be built. According to local newspaper The Day, ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/03/10/richmond-baseball-club-set-to-take-over-defenders-lease/feed/ 1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/01/26/rally-caps-the-monday-qa-with-bryan-bostic/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/01/26/rally-caps-the-monday-qa-with-bryan-bostic/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:37:19 +0000 admin http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=3801 Bryan Bostic thinks he has pitched Richmond the sort of deal it can knock out of the park: a $60 million stadium that seats 7,500 and brings professional baseball back to Richmond with almost no public spending. And the 47-year-old is working more than 45 hours a week to convince Richmond’s various interest groups that ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/01/26/rally-caps-the-monday-qa-with-bryan-bostic/feed/ 4