Questions Linger Over City’s Denver Outsourcing
Perhaps it doesn’t help perceptions that Peter Chapman, Richmond’s chief economic-development officer, lived in Denver before moving here. via Questions Linger Over City’s Denver Outsourcing | News and...
View ArticleRichmond’s City Stadium study sputters
Richmond’s plan to study potential uses of its coveted City Stadium property have not progressed despite the City Council’s call for a report to be finished by early October. Jewell said he’s not...
View ArticleUnhatched. Is the city’s incubator an economic engine? Or a cheap motel for...
….Richmond’s Economic Development Authority….subsidizes the building’s costs — which amounted to $114,000 last fiscal year….the authority doesn’t track jobs that incubator tenants have created, or how...
View ArticleBuilder sues city
A lawsuit filed Monday alleges that city officials botched the budgeting and planning for a $2.4 million program intended to address foreclosed and abandoned properties in Highland Park, Barton Heights...
View ArticleNew marketing campaign aim to attract businesses
By promoting Richmond’s various neighborhoods and showing that the city is pro-business, the city’s Department of Economic and Community Development hopes to show other businesses that they can make a...
View ArticleCity Administration Presented Redskins Plan to Council
On January 9 2013, construction began on the Redskins Training Center in Richmond. Although the public was told that it was “an opportunity to truly preserve a green space in the city, the vita-course...
View ArticlePublic’s input sought on landscaping at Skins site
Alyse Marshall-Auernheimer, president of the West Grace Street Association, said many of the residents her group represents were outraged by the loss of the trees and the fitness trail. She added that...
View ArticleLost trees remain focus of ‘Skins site meeting
Third District Councilman Chris A. Hilbert, who was at Tuesday’s meeting along with City Council President Charles R. Samuels, is calling for an independent oversight board for the Redskins project to...
View ArticleResidents sound off on new park near Redskins camp
“This rape, pillage and burn kind of attack that happened here, very suddenly, is very unacceptable,” said Marian Agnew, who says she would like the football fields to be open year-round to the public....
View ArticleCity Chief Operating Officer – Yes? No?
How did that happen? December 9, 2013 Department of Economic and Community Development website: ‘Jane C. Ferrara, CCIM, Chief Operating Officer’ December 9, 2013 Department of Human Resources: We do...
View ArticleBusiness First is Late
City of Richmond Economic and Community Development Business First Richmond Accessed: 13 Jan 2013
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