Archives: local business

Local coffee shop brewing up new business through gift card buyout program

Alchemy Coffee’s program offers customers the chance to exchange Starbucks gift cards for credit at the locally-owned business.

Growlers to Go opens doors of new West End location, plans grand opening celebration

The Short Pump store is the company’s second location.

Local event management firm rebrands amidst rapid growth

E2, based in the West End, is now known as Eventfull.

A for Adventure owner Jonathan Goldberg in office

Advertising, design, and fashion

New businesses love Jackson Ward.

Holiday ‘Artisan Market’ comes to Carytown on Sunday

Over 50 local artisans and craftsmen will descend on Carytown, offering their wares up just in time for holiday shopping.

JBEL tasties dessert boutique

Help JBEL Tasties raise funds for their dessert boutique

JBEL Tasties has launched an online crowdfunding campaign.

Josiah Lockhart commands an Ark of Taste

Lockhart Family Farm’s Josiah Lockhart is bringing heritage and rare-breed meat to chefs and consumers and planning a distribution network to do so more efficiently. He will represent Slow Food RVA at the inaugural Slow Meat symposium in Denver.

Urban Farmhouse flyers blanket Church Hill

Check your car, because you may have just found your new neighborhood hot-spot.

Carytown: Richmond’s ever-changing shopping district

Carytown store owners give their thoughts on the changes the area has been through and what makes the shopping district such a special part of Richmond.

At the speed of light: the bright future of Light Tape

A state of the art company that has its product in just about every country you can think of (and then some) is based right here in town. What is Light Tape, what do they make, and why don’t more people know how amazing they are?