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Bball coach builds thriving side biz

Business people love sports metaphors, but one local coach can talk about business as sport without being cliché. Hamill Jones has turned pickup games into a small start-up business: a league that has eight teams of young local professionals who pay to play, network and socialize. After years of playing and coaching, the former captain […]

‘The domains were available’

A local general contractor has taken an unusual step to make sure his firm’s website comes up at the top of search results on the web. But while the move might be a savvy web strategy, it’s riled other contractors who think it violates the spirit of fair competition.

That’s worth a champagne toast

A local restaurant bought its independence yesterday and avoided becoming a victim of its landlord’s legal and financial problems. The Empress, which opened for business in April in a West Broad Street space owned by developer Justin French, feared the worst after the bank foreclosed on the property last month.

Whiskey startup goes down smooth

Two friends from Collegiate hatched a business plan while at a Virginia Tech football game, and now they’ve got their very own Richmond whiskey to pour at this season’s tailgate parties.

Carytown business community thinks outside the box

Some Carytown merchants and nearby residents who oppose a Baltimore developer’s plan to turn a mid-century Verizon office building into a more than 41,000-square-foot retail property have started a campaigned called “Don’t Big Box Carytown.”

French tax credit records raise red flags

Last week, IRS and FBI agents raided the Shockoe Slip office of developer Justin French, removing computers and boxes of paperwork. Sources say that French received an unusually large amount of tax credits for renovating historic buildings compared with what local developers typically reap on similar projects.

FBI, IRS raid French Consulting

A local real estate developer already feuding with banks and investors has two new groups to worry about: the FBI and the IRS. Agents raided the Shockoe Slip offices of embattled developer Justin French yesterday.

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