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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jonathan Spiers

    City, EDA file responses to Flying Squirrels owners’ Diamond District lawsuit - Richmond BizSense (opens the original)

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    Site work for the first mixed-use phase is visible beside CarMax Park and Sports Backers Stadium, which has since been demolished. CarMax Park replaces The Diamond, also pictured, and anchors the larger Diamond District site. (Skyshots Photography) The City of Richmond and its economic development authority are pushing back against a lawsuit brought by the ownership group for the Richmond Flying Squirrels over alleged changes and delays to the CarMax Park-anchored Diamond District project. Attor

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Jonathan Spiers

    Avula administration resuming auctions of tax-delinquent and blighted properties - Richmond BizSense (opens the original)

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    Mayor Danny Avula discusses the relaunch with reporters alongside CAO Odie Donald and other officials at City Hall. (Jonathan Spiers photo) Following a three-year pause that quietly started during the Covid-19 pandemic, the City of Richmond is resuming its tax-delinquent real estate auctions as part of an effort to ramp up enforcement and compliance efforts for blighted and tax-delinquent properties. Mayor Danny Avula and city administrators briefed reporters Monday on their plan to relaunch the

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Jonathan Spiers

    Downtime: Virginia film chief makes his first feature flick with help from Lilly Pad owners, RVA movie scene - Richmond BizSense (opens the original)

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    Max Walraven, left, and Andy Edmunds at Kingsland Marina, home of Lilly Pad restaurant. (Photo courtesy Max Walraven) When Andy Edmunds was lining up financing for his first attempt at making a feature film, he reached out to Max and Karen Walraven, owners of the Lilly Pad restaurant – not because they have a background in such things (they don’t) but because of, he said, their entrepreneurial spirit. Edmunds, who for decades has helped others make movies as the longtime director of the Virginia

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Jonathan Spiers

    City readying RFPs to develop housing at former East End police precinct, Northside school sites - Richmond BizSense (opens the original)

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    The former First Precinct building at Q and 25th streets is one of two surplus properties the city is looking to redevelop to add lower-income housing. (Jonathan Spiers photo) As it makes its selection for a residential development on a city-owned lot in Shockoe Bottom, the City of Richmond is preparing to put out its next solicitation to turn surplus city property into lower-income housing. The city’s Department of Housing & Community Development is aiming to put out a request for qualification

  5. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Jonathan Spiers

    Former GreenCity developer files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy - Richmond BizSense (opens the original)

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    The federal courthouse in Richmond. (BizSense file images) A year after relinquishing the site to Henrico County and settling a debt dispute with its would-be arena operator, the development group behind the failed GreenCity project has filed for bankruptcy. Green City Partners, the entity led by Susan Eastridge and Michael Hallmark, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection Sept. 9. The filing lists over $825,000 in known liabilities to 16 creditors, and less than $50,000 in assets. Creditors i

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