Archive for December, 2008
Feature: Richmond’s Rockett’s Landing
Behind the secretive plans to turn Richmond's old dock into a gold mine. Inside Business, Monday January 22, 2001 Mention Rocketts' Landing to anyone with financial ties to the Richmond riverfront and chances are you'll receive a steely response. To date, investors and developers have treated the Rocketts' Landing development project more [...]
News: First Union to Wachovia, No Wheat
First appeared in Richmond's Inside Business RICHMOND - Last week, Richmond-based First Union Securities introduced a new advertising campaign to show off its new identity as Wachovia Securities. With the new campaign and tagline "Uncommon Wisdom," the company will forever shed the name First Union Securities and rename itself Wachovia [...]
Column: Downtown Street Parking
Downtown Richmond needs more street parking. (Published 2001) Most mornings, as I pull into an on-street parking space on 19th Street in Shockoe Bottom, I think about diagonal parking. Why, you ask? Am I that much of a bore? INSIDE BUSINESS' office is at 19th and East Franklin. The street where I park is one way, with diagonal parking on [...]
