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COVID-19 claims second life in Virginia
A second person in the Peninsula Health District has died from COVID-19, according to a news release posted by James City County on Monday. The patient was a male in his 70s who died from respiratory failure as a result of the novel coronavirus, the Virginia Department of Health reported, the county alert said. This […]
Chicago developer plans senior living facility in Henrico
A Chicago developer has purchased a 5.3-acre plot of land in Henrico County for $3.75 million from Temple Beth El synagogue in Richmond. The land will be developed into a senior living facility. CA Ventures’ CA Senior Living division will be building a senior living facility, featuring assisted and independent living opt[...]
Past VSCPA President Sam Derieux dies
Samuel Derieux, a Richmond-based certified public accountant and past president of the Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA), died on March 8. He was the only person to ever serve as both the president and chairman of the board of directors for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). A World War II veteran who[...]
VCU Health System to acquire Riverside Tappahannock Hospital
Richmond-based VCU Health System is purchasing the 67-bed Riverside Tappahannock Hospital and its related medical services from Riverside Health System, the health systems announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the transaction were not released. VCU Health System will acquire RTH and its related services, including diagnostics, p[...]
Colliers International promotes Richmond employee to assistant VP
Real estate company Colliers International promoted Megan Sullivan to assistant vice president at its Richmond office, the company announced Thursday. Sullivan began her commercial real estate career in July 2015 and specializes in sales and leasing for office and medical office buildings. She came to Colliers in January 2019, [...]
Madison+Main names new president
Richmond-based brand communications firm Madison+Main on Thursday announced that it has promoted Chief Operating Officer Molly Whitfield to president, effective March 1. Whitfield, who will continue in her COO role, is the second president in the firm’s 15 years in business. Whitfield began working with the agency in 2007 and [...]
Stanley Martin buys Richmond parking lot for $3.9M to develop town homes
Reston-based Stanley Martin Cos. LLC has purchased a 1.16-acre parking lot at 1027 N. Lombardy St. in Richmond from Sylvia Place Properties LLC for $3.9 million, Virginia Beach-based Divaris Real Estate Inc. announced Wednesday. Read Goode and Cheryle Toy represented Stanley Martin in the transaction. Stanley Martin also has 2[...]
Owens & Minor names new board member
Mechanicsville-based Fortune 500 medical supply distribution company Owens & Minor Inc. has appointed retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Gwendolyn “Gwen” Bingham to its board of directors, effective March 5. Bingham is a retired three-star U.S. Army lieutenant general and most recently was the Department of the Army’s assi[...]
Former Colortree factory to be taken over by new company
Tulsa, Oklahoma-based marketing conglomerate Moore DM Group will invest $31 million in reopening the Henrico County printing plant formerly operated by Colortree Group Inc., which abruptly went out of business in June, leaving 240 employees out of work. The new plant will be run as Richmond Print Group, a subsidiary of Moore DM [...]
VCU College of Humanities and Sciences appoints dean
Jennifer Malat will be dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Humanities and Sciences effective July 1, the university announced Tuesday. Malat is currently the divisional dean for social sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Arts and Sciences and oversees academic affairs, faculty affairs and[...]
Changing times
Town houses and apartments, storefronts and restaurants, grassy medians, pocket parks, sidewalks everywhere. Doesn’t this look a lot like a downtown? Picking up his mail in slippers and shorts on a brisk January day, Tandy Harris pauses to consider the question. “It does,” he agrees. “It’s got all the bells and whistle[...]
Subsea cable country
The scheduled 2020 arrival in Henrico County of a third connection to ultra-high-speed internet subsea cables should give the Richmond region bragging rights as a destination for data centers. In other words, it makes Central Virginia an alternative to Loudoun County, where 70% of all internet traffic flows but lacks a direct li[...]
