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Fortune 500 medical supply company Owens & Minor has expanded in to Europe. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/business/2012/sep/01/tdbiz01-owens-amp-minor-completes-europe-deal-ar-2169625/

You mean Representative Eric Cantor flipped because he would be seen as taking stimulus money from the evil President Obama! Im shocked! Even though it would have been great for the Region. What a shame.

Never mind found the answer to my own question. http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/missing-the-train/Content?oid=1364024 The cost is anywhere in between $122 million and $600 million. Thats a big gap. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2006-02-03/html/E6-1500.htm Also if it was moved downtown many business travelers going south will use the train.

Didn't a state representative from that district a couple of years ago beg the general assembly for money to improve that segment of railway?

Here is the news story about the press conference. http://www.wavy.com/...secret-spending

I dont know if anybody has posted this before but it gives everyone an idea of the 11 bridge restoration and replacement project going on Interstate 95. The video also has many nice aerial views of the City.

Thats great news for Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads! Now if we can route all the traffic through Downtown Main St Station instead of the Suburban Staples Mill Station.

Looks like the mayor and the business community is getting tired of asking the counties for help! All of these projects would improve the quality of life in the metro area. It still seems the counties do not see it that way. For example when the UCI World Cycling Championships comes to town in 2015 it will fill hotel rooms from DC to Hampton Roads. Hopefully all this is done in the next couple of years. For all the cry babies saying that we dont have enough money. You were saying the same thing during the boom years. These battles have been going on for 10 years and still no progress. If they do go forward today I foresee all these projects done by 2016. The economy in Richmond-Tri Cities is growing again with Capital One expanding in Short Pump, Goochland, and Chesterfield, Amazon, the Downtown Research park expanding with new tenants, Fort Lee expansion, Tumblr IT headquarters, Rolls Royce expansion, Sabra expanding, the list goes on. Great time to be there. http://www2.timesdis...ond-ar-2171652/

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/2012/aug/31/vitamin-retailer-build-ashland-distribution-center-ar-2168110/

I agree with you. Apparently he is trying to get private money to pay for it. The problem I have is promising that it will be built without knowing where the money is coming from. If they screw this up then Richmond will be left with a huge black eye. Plus he already has had 3 months to ask the local Fortune 500 companies and other businesses to chip in. Now he has 2 months left.

The City of Richmond and the Redskins have narrowed down the sites between Leigh St. behind the Science Museum and City Stadium. The Redskins are leaning toward the site at Leigh St. Im still wondering where the Mayor is going to pull $10 million in such a short period of time. Plus the 6 month construction time is very short. Hope the city pulls it off. http://www2.timesdis...eum-ar-2165932/

Try 10 years

Will the Childrens Pavilion addition be built beside city hall facing Broad St.?

This is very sad that we have talent leaving the area because of mediocrity in attracting tenants at RIC. The crazy thing about this is I was just looking into the cost of flying to New York from Richmond non stop today. The cost of a round trip ticket is $322 during low season for travel. Compare that to DC which is $100 or Raleigh which is 3 hours south of us at $150, Charlotte $163, Atlanta $210, Jacksonville $208, Miami $200. Hell I can get a roundtrip ticket from LA to NY for $275. The area needs to get on top of this pronto. This is blatantly outrageous! Soon enough businesses would not want to move here because of the outrageous airport prices. P.S. This rant is in no offense to you Flack4ric. Just flat out frustrated.

I agree with you that Norfolk is the central hub for the region. The only reason their is 7 cities in Hampton Roads is because all the counties back then were paranoid of being annexed. I think the reason for Comcast and Live Nation wanting the Arena at the beach is for mainly summer concerts. You will have people walking from the oceanfront to the Arena for the concert then walking back to the beach and enjoying themselves. Unfortunately I think Comcast and Live Nation could care less what the NBA or NHL team attendance record is for the Arena. The franchise will be paying the same lease to Comcast regardless if the franchise is making money or not. So mainly the arena is coming to the beach because of the huge untapped concert market in Hampton Roads.

Cant wait to see the proposal that comes out of Tuesdays meeting with the Virginia Beach City Council and Comcast. I only wonder if the city can take on that much debt with Light Rail and the Sports Arena at one time. The easiest way to finance all of this is just raise the hotel tax in Virginia Beach or tack on a airport fee like Oklahoma City did to finance its Sports Arena. Of course all of South Hampton Roads will have to agree with the airport fee.

Hopefully this spurs into more businesses coming to downtown and Manchester! http://www2.timesdis...t_boom_graphic/

The DC Regions tallest skscraper will be finished early 2013. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mondayproperties/6896918796/in/photostream http://www.arlnow.com/2010/09/30/groundbreaking-scheduled-for-rosslyn-skyscraper/ http://www.1812northmoore.com/

Update on the Silver line running from Falls Church-Tysons Corner-Dulles International Airport-Route 772 "Va. transportation chief Sean Connaughton lays out position on Silver Line" The first part of the 23-mile Silver Line, which will run through Tysons Corner to Wiehle Avenue, is under construction and is expected to be completed in August 2013. Construction of the second part of the project is expected to start next spring and will run from Reston to Dulles Airport and Loudoun County. But already there have been delays in starting the process to get bids on the second part of the project. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), which is overseeing construction of the $6 billion Silver Line, appears unwilling to change an incentive that it put into a labor agreement for the second phase. That has stalled Virginia from giving its share of money for the construction because of a bill that passed the General Assembly preventing Virginia from giving money for the Silver Line if there were labor incentives in place. Some officials believe the MWAA’s labor agreement violates the state’s right-to-work policy. The MWAA board is expected to discuss the issue at its Wednesday meeting. There are also concerns among Loudoun supervisors over the labor agreement and the project’s cost. Officials in Loudoun have until July 4 to decide whether they are in or out on helping to pay for the project. “We’ve always said we’re going to give $150 million,” Connaughton said Wednesday, just before the breakfast started. “The issue is, we can’t give them that money or provide any other money if there is a labor agreement or preference given in the procurement.” He said the $150 million is not due to the project until 2013. “Virginia is committed to this project,” he said. “We are going to provide these funds as long as it doesn’t violate any of our laws.” The Silver Line is being paid for with funds from the federal and state governments, Fairfax and Loudoun counties and revenue from the Dulles Toll Road. “Virginia is a right-to-work state,” Connaughton said. “This is not a federal project. This is a state project with state funds and taxpayer and toll payer funds. Therefore, we want our laws to be respected.” At the Wednesday event, Stephen Fuller, an economist at George Mason University, said Loudoun County would lose $72.2 billion in economic benefit if the Silver Line doesn’t run to Loudoun. With the rail service, Fuller said that 40,000 professional and business service jobs would come to Loudoun. Without it, the area would remain more of a bedroom community, he said. http://www.washingto...u2CU_story.html http://www.dullesmetro.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fairfaxcounty/sets/72157624106285751/

Tysons Corner (the 12th largest employment center in the United States). Has a problem with letting the developers come up with their own tax code. " Private-sector executives are sometimes known to grumble about government tax policies that amount to a bureaucratic maze. Why can’t the government just create a straightforward system, they wonder? And why does every decision take so darn long? In Tysons Corner, the roles have been reversed, as the area’s major landowners have struggled for months to agree on how to raise $506 million for more than a dozen major road upgrades as the government waited." http://www.washingto...yX6T_story.html http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/tysons/ http://www.washingto...tK_gallery.html

To further what Burt posted this morning. Here is a in depth article with renderings from the Times-Dispatch. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/apr/24/vcu-unveils-design-32-million-art-institute-ar-1866127/ Gallery http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/gallery-vcu-unveils-design-new-art-institute/gallery/

'This year, Richmond will start three projects that are part of a broader plan to make Shockoe Bottom a destination point for tourism, drive commercial development and create a vibrant neighborhood centered on the landmark Main Street Station and a revamped 17th Street Farmers' Market.' http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/apr/09/tdmain01-city-getting-ready-to-implement-shockoe-r-ar-1828117/ Shockoe Economic Revitalization Strategy http://www2.timesdispatch.com/mgmedia/file/663/shockoe-strategy-plan/

Hopefully one day Richmond will come out of building architecture that is 20 years past its prime. For a site that was the birth place of religious freedom this is a disgrace to Richmond and the rest of the world. To add where has the First Freedom Group been lately with all the religious bickering going on across the country. Seems like they have their head stuck in the sand and do no want to bother with what are fore fathers have written.

This is a photo gallery posted in the Times-Dispatch today which is also relevant to the above articles http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/richmond-riverfront/gallery/

VDOT sprucing up the city gateways before the Road World Cycling Championship comes to Richmond in 2015 http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/local-news/2012/apr/08/tdmet01-vdot-sprucing-up-richmonds-interstate-gate-ar-1826530/ http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/richmond/i-95_richmond_gateway.asp