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Startup Recap for 2024: Food businesses flourished, others raised more than $25M from investors
The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 11.26.24
Nov 26, 2024 · BES Studios produced the GQ video cover story “Dwayne Johnson: Wrestling with Life & Trying to Disappear.”The 30-minute interview was filmed at Johnson’s Virginia home. Creative and post was provided by the magazine. BES was hired by California agency Innocean USA for a social media campaign for Hyundai USA.The 30-second spot was produced by BES, which constructed a 30-foot 4K video wall ...
Former Richmond Fed bank examiner charged with insider trading
Nov 18, 2024 · Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a statement from the Federal Reserve. A former Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond employee is facing criminal and civil charges for allegedly pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars by using illegal inside information to trade on the stocks of the same financial institutions he was tasked with examining.
New-to-market grocery store to open near Courthouse and Hull …
Sep 26, 2024 · An out-of-town grocery store chain has claimed a former gym near the Courthouse Road and Hull Street Road intersection in Chesterfield for its first location in the Richmond region.
Local investor group sells downtown building, mourns death of …
Nov 21, 2024 · A cloud of sadness hangs over the recent sale of a downtown building, as the group that sold it found out one of their partners had passed away just days after the deal closed.
EAT Restaurant Partners to open new spots in Short Pump, Forest …
Oct 11, 2024 · As for EAT’s new spot in Short Pump, plans submitted to Henrico last week for a new, 7,000-square-foot restaurant building at 3401 Haydenpark Lane list EAT as the tenant. Tsui said he can’t comment on the plans quite yet while the deal is being finalized. The documents don’t specify what the concept will be, however floor …
Tom Leonard’s plans expansion, more locations as new generation …
Oct 23, 2024 · With a new Leonard at the till, Tom Leonard’s Farmer’s Market is headed for growth mode. Plans are in the works to expand the square footage of the Short Pump grocery store, as well as open additional locations and introduce organic products more consistently to …
Kuba Kuba Dos shutting down, sold to owner of nearby Bistro 804
Oct 25, 2024 · Manny Mendez and Johnny Giavos opened Kuba Kuba Dos in 2015 as a second location of their original Kuba Kuba in the Fan, which remains open as usual and appears to be unaffected by the sale. Giavos and Mendez weren’t available for comment by press time. Hagez is a longtime local restaurateur, having opened Nader’s Bistro & Grill on Glenside Drive in the late 1990s before opening burger and ...
BizSense Development Tracker: Interactive project maps
New real estate developments abound in the Richmond area. So much so that it’s become difficult to keep track. BizSense hopes to help with our new Development Tracker. This collection of interactive maps will follow the progress of major real estate developments across the region from the planning stage to completion. We’ll be constantly updating these and adding new maps and we encourage ...
Developer completes $22M apartment project, starts another …
Oct 11, 2024 · Across the street, ECD is starting work on Green Park Apartments, a four-story building with 43 apartments and 3,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space on a roughly half-acre grassy lot at 1203 E. Brookland Park Blvd.. The site is next door to the old Highland Park Public School, which Enterprise converted nearly a decade ago into 77 …