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Biz Buzz: CarLotz adding another store
CarLotz, the consignment used-car dealer, is opening a second location less than a year after it first went into business.
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Biz Buzz: Vineyard Vines opens first Virginia store at Stony Point Fashion Park
The first thing to catch your eye when you walk into the new Vineyard Vines store at Stony Point Fashion Park is not the fashion retailer's array of clothing.
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Biz Buzz: Amelia Springs brings biodegradable bottle to local retailers
Amelia Springs Natural Spring Water is selling a new biodegradable bottle at three local grocery stores and hopes to get it into more locations in the very near future.
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Biz Buzz: Dairy Bar opening later and serving dinner to attract new customers
The Dairy Bar, a popular eatery in Richmond for more than six decades, is shaking things up a bit.
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Biz Buzz: Website is a gym for female brain
While gyms are packed with people looking to get in shape, some say that many are overlooking one of the most important aspects of their bodies: their brains.
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Biz Buzz: VCU students create marketing campaign for local Boys & Girls Clubs
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond has a new branding campaign courtesy of the area's biggest ad agency and a group of Virginia Commonwealth University students.
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Biz Buzz: Mattress retailer steps out on his own
In some ways, James Mullins is like a lot of people who dream of quitting their jobs and starting their own business.
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Biz Buzz: Five Below CEO says Richmond area is ripe for expansion
Just ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season, Five Below has expanded its presence in the Richmond area with a new Chesterfield County store — its fifth in the region.
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Biz Buzz: Carytown retailer Janet Brown Interiors expands
Shortly after Janet Brown opened the Carytown store in 2002 that bears her name, she realized there was a problem: She was going to run out of space.
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BUZZ: Phoenix store to move into new space nearby
K McCarthy had a decision to make. After 34 years as the owner of Phoenix, the women's apparel retailer in Carytown, she was looking at her future with thoughts of selling the business and retiring.
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Green Monkey offers parents an alternative
Sisters cooking up healthy meals for students and special events
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Biz Buzz: Mother and daughter open up Richmond needle point shop
Mother and daughter team open up Richmond needle point shop
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Biz Buzz: M. Kambourian Sons store is closing
M. Kambourian Sons will close its Henrico County store early next year, but what will happen to the 100-year-old Richmond area company after that remains up in the air.
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Posted on the Biz Buzz Blog last week Rocketts Landing , the 45-acre development off Old Osborne Turnpike straddling Richmond and Henrico County, is welcoming two new tenants to its 210 Rock building, a six-story, mixed-used building in the development: The Art Department, an online art school, is leasing 2,200 square feet. The school is scheduled to move in May 31.
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Posted on the Biz Buzz Blog last week Several Shockoe Slip and Shockoe Bottom businesses are joining forces to draw shoppers and create a more united front. To accomplish their goal, the businesses have created a series of cultural events called Shockoe Wide Open. The first is a "Second Fridays" art walk this Friday. The art walk, a takeoff on the First Fridays Art Walk along Broad Street, is designed to "showcase the combined area as a center for cultural growth and sustainability," organizers say. So far, six businesses have signed up to participate, though organizers expect more to join soon. The businesses are: Frame Nation, The Urban Farmhouse Market & Café, The Whitley Gallery, 17th Street Farmers' Market, Dransfield Jewelers and the Antique Boutique. Keep up with fresh Biz Buzz throughout the week on TimesDispatch.co m. Keyword: Biz Buzz
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Biz Buzz: New Balance store is UR grad's latest project
Jeff Strojny is going from running track to running a shoe store. While the change might seem like a big one, it's really not. The 2009 University of Richmond grad is manager and part-owner of the new New Balance store in the Short Pump Station shopping center in western Henrico County. The 2,400-square-foot store was scheduled to open this past Saturday. The official grand opening is this coming Saturday. New Balance specializes in running shoes and apparel.
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Posted on the Biz Buzz Blog last week The owner of Chester's The Cordial Cricket has added another title to her résumé: children's book author. Elizabeth Howard has penned a book along with her 7-year-old son. The book is aptly titled "The Cordial Cricket." It follows the story of a young cricket who learns a lesson about being cordial as he plans a birthday party. The Cordial Cricket -- the store, not the book -- sells stationery, gifts, art and children's toys and clothing. The book is available at the store in Festival Park at Chester Village. Thalhimer Cushman & Wakefield real estate brokerage has been hired to represent Rutland Commons. The nearly 110,000-square-foot Hanover County shopping center already counts Kroger, Great Clips and Tropical Smoothie as its clients. The center at Chamberlayne Avenue and Atlee Road has about 19,000 square feet of space still available. Keep up with fresh Biz Buzz throughout the week on TimesDispatch.com. Keyword: Biz Buzz
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Posted on the Biz Buzz Blog last week Gulf Oil will be back in Virginia for the first time in 24 years and is making its way to the Richmond area. The company last week signed with Southwest Virginia gas station owner Milo C. Cockerham Inc. Cockerham will begin changing several of its Southwest Virginia stations over to Gulf. The stations were previously branded Chevron. Gulf is expanding beyond its core Northeast market after Chevron announced in December that it was pulling its name from about 1,100 service stations in Eastern states, including Virginia. Keep up with fresh Biz Buzz throughout the week on TimesDispatch.com. Keyword: Biz Buzz
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Posted on the Biz Buzz Blog last week 3Sports is relocating. The shop, which specializes in running, swimming and cycling gear, closed its store at the Tuckahoe Shopping Center on Saturday. It reopens tomorrow in the River Road Shopping Center. The new shop will be about twice as large and will allow 3Sports to carry a wider array of specialty bicycles. End Game Public Relations has been hired to create a website for a small North Carolina restaurant. Steve Mullen is president of the firm, which handles website design, public relations and social marketing campaigns for clients including Sheltering Arms and the Richmond Association of Realtors. The Crabby Oddwaters restaurant in Sunset Beach, N.C., has never had a web presence. The owners also are looking to sell the place. Keep up with fresh Biz Buzz throughout the week on TimesDispatch.com. Keyword: Biz Buzz
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Biz Buzz: Short Pump retailer taking store online
Four months after opening her first retail shop locally, Nancy Sharigian is expanding her offerings to the rest of the planet. Well, at least those on the planet who happen to click on her new Web site. Sharigian owns Jake & Friends in western Henrico County. The store, which opened in November, is in the Short Pump Station shopping center near Trader Joe's.
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Posted on the Biz Buzz Blog last week Chat & Play Café in Chesterfield County has closed. Chat & Play, which opened in late 2007, wasn't able to gain traction in a tough economy, owner Louise Sutton said. She said in an e-mail last week that "the recession hit us and stay-at-home moms hard." Chat & Play was a café with a large play are for children. Sutton had tried to find a buyer to take over the shop on Hull Street Road, but the deal feel through at the last minute. On the shop's Web site, Sutton bemoaned the closing and described the café as a "special place where moms came in alone and left with friends, advice from new friends and a breather in a busy day." Keep up with fresh Biz Buzz throughout the week on TimesDispatch.com. Keyword: Biz Buzz
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New brew: Coffee shop opens in Petersburg
Dave McCormack's already-long résumé grew by one item recently when he added coffee-shop owner to a work history that includes musician, writer and landlord. McCormack and partner Kris Haase own Demolition Coffee on East Bank Street in Old Towne Petersburg. The shop opened last month. Trying to label McCormack with a single title is a bit disingenuous.
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Biz Buzz: Two financial advisers got push from tough times
As the financial system teetered on the brink of destruction in late 2008, two Richmond financial advisers found themselves at a crossroads. Like many in the industry, they watched as some of the nation's biggest banks struggled to stay afloat and the government looked for a way to prop them up. At the time, the stock market dropped, wiping away the fortunes of many.
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Wine-bar owners set up in Short Pump
It's not often that the words urban chic and Short Pump go together, but the owners of a new wine bar in the area are trying to change that. "This is not the kind of place you usually see around here, but we're trying to bring cool to Short Pump," said Jeff Ottaviano, who owns The Wine Loft wine bar along with his wife, Christy.
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Monkee's idea perfect fit for Henrico retailer
After years away from the fashion industry, Lynne Butz is back in the business but in a much different way. Butz owns Monkee's of Richmond in The Shoppes at Westgate in western Henrico County, across from Short Pump Town Center. The shop opened this month. Monkee's marks Butz's return to the industry but puts her in the owner's seat as opposed to a corporate office.
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