Creative Commerce: Downtown Design District
With events in November signaling the launch of the Shockoe Design District, Andy Thornton is confident that downtown Richmond is ready to realize its potential as a world-class center of production, consumption and innovation. “We’re a creative community. We have great schools, great artists and crafts people. We actually do make stuff here. Why don’t […]
Calling All Creatives: ConnectRichmond & ConnectSouthside to Merge Online Resources, Announce Logo Contest
The winning design will serve as the official Connect logo and tagline.
Idea Interchange: Richmond Innovators Talk Shop
A Photo Tour of the Downtown Event Surveying Creativity in All Things RVA
Lead by Example: Branding RVA as a Creativity Hub
Greater Richmond Chamber Launches ‘i.e.’ Over the course of discussions with various community and business leaders—including Andy Stefanovich with Prophet, Richmond Times-Dispatch publisher Tom Silvestri, the Creative Change Center’s executive director Chrystal Wake, John Sarvay of Floricane and West Cary Group partner Moses Foster—the Chamber has set the groundwork to promote RVA’s creative community. The […]
RVA Downtown: Sharing the Story
The RVA Downtown initiative is not a traditional branding campaign. The goal isn’t to coin a catchy phrase or to craft clever advertising. Instead, the focus of our efforts is to recognize the groundswell of creativity and innovation that originates here and to build on this momentum by encouraging creativity in all aspects of the community.
Leveraging Arts and Culture
At his State of the City Address, Mayor Dwight Jones announced his intentions to create an Arts and Cultural District (ACD) in Downtown Richmond
Growing Confidence in the Local Business Climate Gains Interest of International Companies
Greater Richmond businesses are making a statement: stay here, grow here. In a six-week period between October and December, seven companies announced they are adding nearly 1,900 new jobs and several are expanding and investing more than $50.7 million. The level of confidence these businesses show for Greater Richmond’s business climate is more than encouraging. It’s critical.
Looking Back, 150 Years Later
The sesquicentennial of the Civil War launches in 2011. Richmond — the onetime capital of the Confederacy and a center of the nation’s slave trade — is slated as a vital destination for tourists of U.S. history or family origin.
Lessons For The Future
Two ground breakings for elementary schools continue the collaborative efforts of the Mayor, City Council and School Board to ‘build a better Richmond.’
DOWNTOWN LIVING: The Prices Are Right & Spaces Are Move-In Ready
With the economy showing signs of momentum, now is the time to buy your loft or condo. They’re chic, eco-smart & going fast.