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“Last Straw” and, as always, The Criterion Channel, offer signs of life on a slow week.

The Cocky Rooster’s Columbia storefront. (Courtesy Cocky Rooster)For its first out-of-state location, the Cocky Rooster has flown south to the land of the Gamecocks. Earlier this month the Richmond-based fried chicken restaurant chain opened in Columbia, South Carolina, in a neighborhood adjacent to

Mayor Danny Avula presented the proposed budget to City Council during a special meeting Thursday. (Screenshot)The City of Richmond is mulling a proposed fiscal year budget that maintains the current real estate tax rate and accelerates funding for improvements to its water treatment plant following

LocationSale DateSellerBuyerAmountChesterfield3820 N Bailey Bridge Road3/14/2025Jerry’s 23 Bailey LLCBVLY Partners X LLC$1,025,00011921, 11923 Centre St3/18/2025Centre Street LLCPlacer Aisha Maria Rosario & Sis Aristides Vidal Sis$587,5006741 Courthouse Landing Lane3/21/2025Courthouse Landing VA LLC

Sage & Vine owner Rana Hamadani recently relocated her medical spa’s Hanover location into a larger space. The company also has a location in Midlothian. (Photos courtesy Chelsea Schmidt/Brand Gloss)A local medical spa has relocated its Hanover outpost into a larger space.Sage & Vine Aesthetics rece

Business NameLocationZip BusinessHenricoJane C. Probst Child and Family Counseling10222 Falconbridge Drive23838OtherRoute 1 Academy of Driving5238 Preston Square Loop23059OtherRiverside Packaging5401 Eubank Road23150OtherThe Puri LLC1113 E Nine Mile Road23075RetailDaniels Custom BuildersVariousConst

The former Best Products headquarters building, which is to be repurposed as part of the GreenCity development. (Henrico County images)Henrico County will seek developer interest in the stalled arena-anchored GreenCity project through a formal solicitation that will go out in about a month.The count

Photo-inspired dances of Starr Foster’s “Spitting Image” expand horizons, spur collaboration.

VCU Health has filed plans to build a four-story, 100,000-square-foot medical office building on a recently acquired property near the Chesterfield courthouse. (BizSense file)Recent filings with Chesterfield County have shed light on VCU Health’s vision for a property it recently acquired near the i

From left, co-owners Jon Bell, Neil McLean, Doug Clodfelter and TJ Hayes. (Courtesy Doug Clodfelter)A restaurant concept created by five friends is officially up and running in the Fan. Brazen, which serves guests a slow-braise-focused menu, opened at 2028 W. Cary St. on March 12.  The team behind t

The Stony Point Village Sephora, pictured here, will open its doors Friday. (Photo by Jackie DiBartolomeo)The first standalone Sephora south of the river is set to debut this week.The cosmetics retailer officially opens the doors on its location at 3002 Stony Point Road Suite B in the Trader Joe’s-a

The six-story building stands near the intersection of Allen and Monument avenues. (Mike Platania photo)As it nears completion and its rooms become available for booking, a new boutique hotel in the Fan has been caught in a legal dustup.Ash Hotels, the New York City-based firm converting The Shenand

Chesterfield Circuit CourtAlly Bank v. MWS Transport Group LLC and Bilal Bhatti a/k/a B.S. BhattiPlaintiff says defendant has defaulted on a retail sales contract for a freightliner, and seeks return of the collateral or damages of $76,948.97.Attorneys: Angela M. TonelloFiled: 3/7/2025CL25002348Blac

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s building downtown at 701 E. Byrd St.Robert Brian Thompson, a former long-time employee at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, will serve 24 months in federal prison for an insider trading scheme he perpetrated while working as a bank examiner at the central b

Homes are beginning to rise at Fairways, Godsey Properties’ redevelopment of the former Glenwood Golf Course along Creighton Road. (Jonathan Spiers photos)Where golfers teed off for nearly 100 years, the first batch of what’s planned to be nearly 300 homes across two subdivisions is beginning to tak

XL Sports World Richmond is planning to expand its facilities with a pair of outdoor turf fields. The $3 million project is slated for undeveloped land on the site of the indoor complex. (Jack Jacobs photo)Two years after launching a youth soccer club, a Chesterfield sports facility is now in the mi

Heat Diffuser For An Aerosol-generating SystemPatent No. 12256469A heat diffuser for use with an electrically-operated aerosol-generating device is configured to be removably coupled to the aerosol-generating device. The heat diffuser includes a non-combustible porous body for absorbing heat from an

The airport is planning to build a 5,500-spot parking deck. (BizSense file photos)Starting this summer, for the first time in over 20 years, it’s going to cost more to park at Richmond International Airport. This week the Capital Region Airport Commission voted to approve increasing the airport’s da

Through ILYSM Books, Mariela Gavino has combined her childhood dream with her passion for sharing essential narratives.

A rendering of the Roseshire Gaming Parlor planned at Staples Mill Shopping Center. (Images courtesy RoseshireGaming.com)A bipartisan push to have county voters weigh in on a planned horse-betting parlor in Henrico has been rejected by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, giving the controversial project that’s alr