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RIR president to head Henrico sports/entertainment authority
Henrico County officials on Wednesday named longtime Richmond Raceway President Dennis Bickmeier to lead its new sports and entertainment authority. Bickmeier’s last day with the raceway, where he has led for more than a decade, is April 15. He will begin working in his new role on April 18. “With Dennis Bickmeier serving as our executive […]
Henrico green-lights $2.3B GreenCity project
The Henrico County Board of Supervisors this week unanimously approved rezoning the 204-acre former Best Products headquarters campus into the $2.3 billion GreenCity project, a major mixed-used development that will feature a 17,000-seat arena. GreenCity, which was proposed in December 2020, is also expected to include two hotels with 600 rooms, about 2.2 million square […]
GreenCity arena hopes to draw sports, music acts
When developers unsuccessfully pitched Navy Hill, a $1.5 billion mixed-use project and arena that sought to reinvent Richmond‘s downtown, they posed a question: If a major draw like Beyoncé came to town, where would she perform? Now those same developers are aiming to host artists like Justin Timberlake, Green Day and John Legend at GreenCity, […]
