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 […]
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 […]
Brewing Bucha
A new line of kombucha teas from local brewery Barefoot Bucha has Greater Richmond abuzz. Unlike traditional teas, Barefoot Bucha beverages are served cold and carbonated. In fact, enjoying one feels more like drinking a ginger ale than an aromatic cup of Earl Grey. Barefoot Bucha founders, Ethan and Kate Zuckerman of Nelson County, Virginia, […]
We Are Coffee Makers
As any Richmonder can tell, something is brewing in RVA. There’s collaboration around every corner, enthusiasm about the region, and an appreciation for local talent and creativity. Grid magazine scratched the surface of the many success stories in the last issue, featuring RVA Makers. At that time we reported on a number of our own […]