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Home>Robyn Sidersky

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Recent Articles from Robyn Sidersky

Norfolk’s MacArthur Center may meet the wrecking ball
Real Estate June 7, 2023

Norfolk City Council votes to purchase MacArthur Center

On Wednesday evening during a special meeting, Norfolk City Council members approved plans for the city to purchase the struggling MacArthur Center mall downtown for up to $18 million.  The 23-acre MacArthur Center is owned by Wells Fargo & Co., which holds the mall following a loan default by the mall’s previous owner, Connecticut-based Starwood […]

Norfolk’s MacArthur Center may meet the wrecking ball
Real Estate June 6, 2023

Norfolk eyes $18M purchase of MacArthur Center mall

Read update: Norfolk City Council votes to buy mall Norfolk City Council will discuss acquiring the struggling downtown MacArthur Center mall for $18 million during a special meeting Wednesday. MacArthur Center is owned by Wells Fargo & Co., which holds the mall following a loan default by the mall’s previous owner, Connecticut-based Starwood Property Trust. […]

Activation Capital plans $53M innovation center in Richmond
Real Estate June 5, 2023

Activation Capital plans $53M innovation center in Richmond

Activation Capital, a Richmond-based innovation incubator, will redevelop a 102,000-square-foot innovation center in the Bio+Tech Park in downtown Richmond, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer and Activation Capital announced Friday. The 34-acre park, at Eighth and E. Leigh streets, is a commercial life sciences hub adjacent to the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and has more [&hel[...]

Caesars Virginia casino opens in Danville
Southern Virginia May 30, 2023

Caesars Virginia casino opens in Danville

On May 15, the first bets were taken at the 40,000-square-foot temporary Caesars Virginia casino in Danville, while a $650 million permanent resort casino is being built next door. The temporary casino looks like a simple white tent on the outside, but the inside feels “very much like you’re in any casino in the country,” […]

Pharrell Williams performs on the second night of the 2023 Something in the Water festival. Photo by Heather Cromartie, courtesy Something in the Water
Eastern Virginia May 30, 2023

Something in the Water brings crowds back to beach

Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water made a splashy comeback to Virginia Beach from April 28-30, although wind and rain delayed the music festival’s start, and lightning and a tornado watch canceled the entire last day. Organizers promised attendees a one-third refund for tickets, which sold for $125 to $600. Williams, a Virginia Beach native, […]

In 2013, Kathryn Fessler with Henrico County-based Altria Group co-founded Mosaic, an employee resource group for LGBTQ+ workers. It now has about 500 members across the company. Photo by Shandell Taylor
News May 30, 2023

Pride in their work

When Kathryn Fessler interviewed with Altria Group Inc. in 2008, she was disappointed to learn that the Henrico County-based Fortune 500 tobacco manufacturing company didn’t have an employee resource group for LGBTQ+ employees. As an out lesbian, Fessler considered such groups a high priority when evaluating new workplaces, but she wound up taking the job […]

Economic Development
Economic Development May 30, 2023

Va. Beach economic development director to depart

Taylor V. Adams, Virginia Beach’s deputy city manager and director of economic development, confirmed Tuesday night he will be leaving Virginia Beach after eight years. He will become the next president and CEO of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), he said Wednesday. His last day is June 30. Last summer, Adams was […]

VPAP names new director
People May 25, 2023

VPAP names new director

Chris Piper, former commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections under Gov. Ralph Northam, will be the next director of the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) after founder David Poole retires on June 30, the organization announced. Founded in 1997, VPAP started as a joint effort by the state’s five largest newspapers to track campaign […]

Finance | Insurance
Money May 23, 2023

Alexandria’s QED Investors raises $925M for two new funds

Alexandria-based fintech venture capital firm QED Investors raised $925 million for two new funds, QED announced Tuesday. The funding comes from two capital commitments: a $650 million oversubscribed early stage fund and a $275 million early growth stage fund, according to a news release from QED, a key investor in San Francisco-based personal finance company […]

SWVA ‘ideal’ for small nuclear reactors, study says
Energy/Green May 23, 2023

SWVA ‘ideal’ for small nuclear reactors, study says

Sites in Dickenson, Lee, Scott and Wise counties and the city of Norton would be “ideal” for installing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), according to a state-funded feasibility study released Monday. Examining the technical feasibility, safety considerations and economic viability of locating small reactors in Southwest Virginia, the study conducted by Reston-based Dominion Engin[...]

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Fruit Growers Association to close after 80 years

Fruit Growers Association to close after 80 years

The Frederick County Fruit Growers Association, which was founded in 1945 to support the area’s or[...]

Health systems forecast pain from Medicaid cuts

Health systems forecast pain from Medicaid cuts

Virginia hospitals face closures as Medicaid cuts hit budgets; Augusta Health closes clinics, warns [...]

Brian Warpup inspects one of his soybean fields in Warren, Ind., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Trump’s trade battle with China puts soybean farmers in peril

China stops buying U.S. soybeans, leaving Virginia farmers with fewer export markets. Simultaneously[...]

Trump slaps tariffs on drugs, furniture, trucks

Trump slaps tariffs on drugs, furniture, trucks

Starting Oct. 1, Trump will impose tariffs of up to 100% on drugs, cabinets, furniture and heavy tru[...]

White House budget office tells agencies to draft mass firing plans ahead of potential shutdown

White House budget office tells agencies to draft mass firing plans ahead of potential shutdown

OMB told agencies to prepare mass layoffs if the government shuts down next week, escalating pressur[...]

The University of Virginia lawn. Photo courtesy U.Va.

15 Virginia schools make U.S. News’ 2026 universities list

Fifteen Virginia schools made the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best National Universities list.[...]

People

Antonio Perez Jr. has been named General Manager of Rivers Casino Portsmouth. Photo courtesy RIvers Casino Portsmouth

Rivers Casino Portsmouth hires new general manager

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The Flagstop Car Wash location at 11031 Iron Bridge Road in Chester. Photo courtesy Flagstop.

Richmond-area car wash chain promotes CEO, other execs

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Timmons Group appoints chief marketing officer

Timmons Group appoints chief marketing officer

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Regions

Digital Gateway opponents score legal win

Digital Gateway opponents score legal win

A Virginia judge voided the rezoning for the $500M Prince William Digital Gateway project, siding wi[...]

Federal funding repeals could halt rural broadband expansion

Federal funding repeals could halt rural broadband expansion

The much-heralded broadband expansion efforts in Southwest Virginia may not come to fruition after a[...]

Danville invests $3 million to prep Coleman site

Danville invests $3 million to prep Coleman site

In July, Danville City Council members OK’d an infusion of funding for 158 acres on Gypsum Roa[...]

Data centers stir debate in Frederick

Data centers stir debate in Frederick

After rejecting two major data centers, Frederick County supervisors back a fact sheet to study impa[...]


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