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Former LandAmerica Customers Vote For Bankruptcy Plan

Innsbrook-based LandAmerica’s former 1031 exchange customers have come to the final stage of grief: acceptance. After a fiercely contested and emotional battle against the formerly Richmond-based title insurance company, 97 percent of the exchangers voted for the bankruptcy plan.
Some of the better-off former customers will get most of their money back shortly. Others will only get […]

New Store At The Shoppes At Westgate Will Pamper Pooches

Just because you have cut back on luxuries, doesn’t mean your dog has to. Husband and wife team Don and Chris Vondriska are preparing to open Fido Park Avenue at the Shoppes at Westgate, located across from Short Pump Town Center.
The 1,100-square-foot store will carry a number of dog products including bedding, leather travel bags, […]

Restaurant Chain With Short Pump Location Files For Bankruptcy Protection

A recent entrant to the local restaurant scene with a location in the Far West End has filed for bankruptcy protection. Pittsburgh-based Max and Erma’s filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday to stave off one major creditor. The Short Pump location is in the John Rolfe Commons Shopping Center.
“The bankruptcy filing said the […]

UK-Based Insurer Cuts Ribbon On New Nuckols Road Headquarters

Elephant Insurance held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday at its new office in the Concourse at Wyndham office park on Nuckols Road. The company, which is a division of UK-based Admiral Group, sold its first car insurance policy at the start of the month and sells only in Virginia for now.
Elephant has about 45 employees spread […]

S&K Menswear’s Customer List & Intellectual Property Being Sold

Streambank will again be coming to Richmond to sell off the intellectual properties of a now defunct Short Pump-based retailer, S&K Menswear. The Massachusetts-based advisory firm helped another former Short Pump-based chain, Circuit City, sell it’s intellectual property, including trademarks and customer data.
Streambank will now sell those same assets for S&K Menswear, which filed for […]

New Electronics Retailer Plans To Hire 80 At Short Pump Job Fair

Electronics retailer hhgregg announced plans to hire about 80 people to work at its two new stores in Richmond, one located at Short Pump Town Center and the other near Chesterfield Towne Center. The stores will open sometime around Thanksgiving.
The company is seeking sales associates, warehouse staff, customer service merchandisers, and managers in training.
Applications will […]

New Startup Rises From Ashes Of Short Pump-Based S&K

And from the ashes, new life emerges. Sounds biblical, but in this case it applies to three entrepreneurs who have a plan to sell low-priced menswear online. Bert Hardy and two other former S&K Menswear executives are trying to take the S&K model and cut out the stores, leaving a profitable online operation. 
They first tossed around the […]

Former S&K CEO Well Suited For New Job

The former chief executive of Short Pump-based S&K Menswear has found a new home as the president of locally-based RetailData Services.The company collects information about supermarkets and sells it to the grocery industry.  Oliver said he wanted to stay in retail and had known about the company for a decade.
“So much of what you […]

LandAmerica Creditors Say Lawyer Fees Too High

There’s more trouble for the formerly Innsbrook-based LandAmerica. A group of former 1031 Exchange customers are irate that lawyers’ fees are gobbling up money they hope to recover. Lawyers working for the bankrupt entity, as well as for the creditor’s committee, get paid from the disputed pot of money, while creditors must hire their own lawyers. […]

Innsbrook-Based LandAmerica Creditors Miffed By New Fed Hire

The former top lawyer at Innsbrook-based LandAmerica has taken a job as a vice president and general counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, upsetting some of the creditors owed money by her bankrupt former employer.
Michelle Gluck, who formerly managed 125 lawyers at LandAmerica’s Richmond office and has also worked at Kmart, Best […]

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