Recent Articles from Valerie Hubbard
Chilhowie revitalization invites new business
Chilhowie’s once-vibrant Main Street is being restored. Following the completion of street and drainage revamps, the facade improvement phase of its $1.4 million redevelopment project concluded in early September. The project to restore the commercial heart of the 2,100-person town that was once a textile manufacturing hub began after residents gathered in 2014 to form […]
Built on a solid foundation
As a lawyer at a title insurance company in 1980, Jim Theobald had assisted a variety of law firms handling commercial real estate transactions all over Virginia. However, after several years there, he was ready for a change. Eager to join a law firm, he liked what he saw at Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & […]
Sowing seeds
High on a bluff on the north bank of the Appomattox River, opposite the city of Petersburg, Virginia State University (VSU) has been transforming lives for 137 years. Starting out with 126 students in its October 1883 first class, Virginia State now has 4,385 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled. But Virginia State has expanded not […]