Reclaiming Workmanship
Ask Sam Sikes about the front door to the showroom at Wellborn + Wright, and he will tell you exactly where each board came from – centuries-old barns. His general manager, Hunter Webb, can remember milling the rough boards out of the original reclaimed timbers, white oak inflected with nail holes and small networks of […]
Things Are Getting Strange in RVA
An “Mekong” Bui Interviews Neil Burton of Strangeways Brewing In recent months, Neil Burton has heard it all: Where will you be located? What’s up with the vest you are wearing? What the heck are you guys going to be brewing? Burton, who previously made his mark in the clothing industry, will soon launch Strangeways, […]
Carving Out a Place for Lasers
On the corner of North Adams Street and Brook Road, Jason Lefton is making a living on having fun. At his company Big Secret – a laser engraving, cutting and marking shop – Lefton uses fun as a way to create quality products and build connections with the Greater Richmond community. Big Secret, now in […]
Makerset Design Keeps it Local
In the corner of a wood working shop on the North Side, three guys are cutting shapes out of metal, polishing them, and shipping their shiny product around the country. Humming with machinery and echoing with clanging tools, this small shop is where 21st century manufacturing is alive and well. This is Makerset Design Co., […]
Big Thinking
There is a small carriage house tucked just off Monument Avenue, a long block away from Robert E. Lee on horseback, that feels as if it sprung from the pages of an Architectural Digest feature on the nation’s greatest man caves. The flat-screen TV that one can assume has all the channels goes virtually unnoticed […]
SEElogix Launches Environmentally Conscious Service in RVA
When most homeowners hear the phrase “home security” they think of alarm systems and keypads. SEElogix, based out of Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom, is redefining home security by providing a logical solution for managing all the important information about your home—from maintenance records to closing documents. A cloud-based service, SEElogix manages everything about a user’s home […]
How Three Generations in RVA Communicate with Each Other
Although hesitant to give up my old ways (I have long been a Palm Pilot warrior, paired with a basic cell phone), I recently joined the iPhone nation and haven’t looked back. But it got me thinking: if different generations communicate in different ways, how do they communicate with one another? I asked around town. […]
Local Commercial Real Estate Projects Earn Top Honors
Thankfully, the real estate market is in a good place at the moment with an increasing number of sales being made each quarter. On top of that, the more people that buy a house, hire a moving company Winston Salem, and relocate, the more they are contributing to the local economy. Greater Richmond Association for […]
Deep Run Attracts New Businesses, Spurs Hiring
The city-sized properties that formerly housed the corporate headquarters of Circuit City Stores Inc. are coming back to life. In March, business and technology outsourcing company Aditya Birla Minacs leased the third floor of what is known as Deep Run I, a giant, class-A office building that for years served as the core of Circuit […]
Celebrating Visual Arts Center of Richmond
RVA recently celebrated the Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s 50th anniversary with a Lewis Carroll themed party, “Through the Looking-Glass: A Very Merry Birthday to VisArts.” The annual Collectors Night Auction is the nonprofit art center’s largest fundraiser of the year. This year’s shindig was the most successful in the history of the organization, exceeding […]