A Town that Prints Together
Climbing into the driver’s seat of a bright-green steamroller, Ashley Hawkins starts the engine and engages the clutch. With a singlewide roll at the front, Hawkins moves the heavy equipment forward with a cheer from onlookers. This was the scene on September 13, 2013 as Hawkins hauled her first steamroller off the lot of Sunbelt […]
Art Happens Here
Change is constant at 2016 Staples Mill Road. It was once Colonial Grocery. Then it was a beauty school. And from there, a mixed-use building that peddled everything from mattresses to flooring. For the past 13 years, the property, however, has served one purpose: the home base for Crossroads Art Center, a growing clearinghouse for […]
Knife-Making in RVA
It was during his time living in an inner city Chicago mission seven years ago that now-Richmonder Brent Stubblefield began making knives. “I lived with all these old hippies and they all did stuff like leatherworking, making things with their hands, and a couple guys showed me how to make knives,” recalls Stubblefield, who-if you […]
Businessweek Reporter Brings Radio Show to RVA
RVA has a new radio show thanks to Roben Farzad, previously a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek for nine years. Farzad moved from Manhattan to Richmond a few years ago and fell in love with the region. It didn’t take him long to begin making connections. From an active social media presence on Twitter to […]
Growing the Startup Ecosystem
Over the past few years, Greater Richmond’s startup community has grown by leaps and bounds. We are becoming a city driven by the ingenuity of its people. The very pages of this magazine are a testimony to the innovative and creative forces shaping our city. We are creating new products, building new technology, offering new […]
Palto Alto on the James
Gesticulating clusters of people gathered and dispersed, gathered and dispersed, moving from one group to another in the back room of Balliceaux on a Wednesday evening during the ruthless winter that never seemed to end. “Let me tell you why that won’t work,” said a woman buried deep in a coding conversation, her explanation interrupted […]
The Richmond Cycling Corps Story
Nonprofit organizations are essentially non-sustainable business models. The outreach/charitable cause is often approached and delivered as a commodity instead of a product. And most nonprofit organizations continue to operate in a disempowered manner—meaning they completely rely on the generosity of others (donations) to fulfill their missions. When I launched Richmond Cycling Corps as a nonprofit, […]
To All our Richmond Working Moms
As working moms, we shoulder a variety of pressures from different sources. And these pressures sometimes result in conflicting emotions that bring awareness to the logistical and emotional trials these roles can bring. It can be a hard road to go down, that is why working moms need to find something every day that can […]
Growing Entrepreneurship
When Claire Collins launched OtherWise Home, a full-service real estate solutions firm in RVA, she turned to Greater Richmond GATE for a boost. While Collins has an impressive track record in business, she knew that a refresher would give her startup the best chance of success in a competitive real estate investment market. Greater Richmond […]
Gather Here
“You can’t print at a coffee shop,” jokes Duke Dodson, one of the five owners of Gather, the new co-working space at 4th and Main Streets. “That’s what we’re hanging our hat on.” The 23,000-square-foot complex at 409 E. Main St., teeming on the edge of full-blown business incubator, opened this spring, and since then […]