Richmond region’s first dog park-bar opening near Scott’s Addition

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Posted on 9/20/2021 by Mike Platania at Richmond BizSense

The latest entertainment option headed to the Scott’s Addition area has something to offer for both humans and their four-legged friends.

Ruff Canine Club, which looks to be the first dog park-bar in the Richmond region, is preparing to open at 1924 Ellen Road with nearly an acre of grass for customers’ dogs to play and a bar serving beer, wine and hard seltzer.

Behind the concept is Natalie Moore, a Tennessee native who moved to Richmond last year after finishing a graduate degree in public policy from UVA.

Moore said she got a job locally as a fundraiser for Dominion Energy’s political action committee in the midst of pandemic lockdowns. During that time, she and her boyfriend made friends in town with the help of their dog Fitzgerald.

“We had our dog in our little apartment (in Carytown) and it had a small turf area. Everyday we’d take drinks out there because we had nothing else to do,” Moore said.

“Our dogs would play and we’d stand along the fence and have beers after a day of Zoom. That’s how we made so many of our friends. I just wanted it on a bigger scale.”

She eventually decided to turn the idea into a business after researching other dog park bars throughout the country. A few trips to the likes of Fetch Park in Atlanta led Moore to start looking for a space in the Richmond area.

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$80 million mixed-use apartment project planned near Scott’s Addition; Buz and Ned’s would have to move

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Posted on 7/12/2021 by Colbi Edmonds at Richmond Times-Dispatch

A 300-unit apartment complex along with retail space is planned for North Arthur Ashe Boulevard on land where Buz and Ned’s Real Barbecue and other businesses are now.

Level 2 Development and SJG Properties, two development companies based in Washington, have acquired five parcels totaling 3.3 acres for the planned $80 million mixed-use project, the companies announced Monday.

The project would be one of the largest apartment complexes in the Scott’s Addition area.

“Even though we’re Washington developers … we love Richmond, Virginia,” said David Franco, principal and co-founder of Level 2 Development. “We’re very familiar; we’re very excited. There’s a lot of growth opportunity in Richmond. We’ve seen businesses coming to Richmond and population growth in the area. So we’re really excited about the prospect of working in Richmond.”

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Developers pay $12.5M for Lacy’s 3.3-acre tract on Arthur Ashe Blvd.

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Posted on 7/14/2021 by Mike Platania at Richmond BizSense

A new high mark has been set for land on a per-acre basis in the Scott’s Addition area.

The 3.3-acre assemblage at 1117-1209 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. sold earlier this week for $12.5 million, city records show.

The buying entities are tied to D.C.-based Level 2 Development and SJG Properties, who are planning a major mixed-use project for the site. The seller in the deal was local investor Ed Lacy, who’d owned many of the parcels for decades.

At about $3.8 million per acre, the deal marks the highest sales price on a per-acre basis in the neighborhood in recent memory.

The previous high mark for the land in and around Scott’s Addition was $3.6 million per acre, set last year by South Carolina’s Greystar when it bought a whole city block at 1601 Roseneath Road. It paid $8.6 million for the site, where it’s planning a 350-unit mixed-use project with locally-based Capital Square.

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Uber co-founder’s ghost kitchen startup buys into Scott’s Addition

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Posted on 6/29/2021 by Mike Platania at Richmond BizSense

A ghost kitchen startup from an Uber co-founder has taken a bite out of Scott’s Addition.

Earlier this month an entity tied to City Storage Systems bought the building at 2812 W. Broad St. for $750,000. The one-story, 6,100-square-foot building is just east of the Hofheimer Building.

City Storage Systems is the parent company of Cloud Kitchens, a ghost kitchen startup from Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick.

Kalanick resigned from the ride-sharing company, under pressure from investors, in 2017 as it faced controversies surrounding allegations of sexual harassment and sexism in the workplace.

He then started Cloud Kitchens, which through the ghost kitchen model offers rentable kitchens to restaurateurs for delivery-only business.

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Tech startup moving downtown HQ to Scott’s Addition

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Posted on 2/27/2018 by Mike Platania on Richmond BizSense

A local startup is sliding back onto familiar grounds as it moves its headquarters from downtown to Scott’s Addition.

Blueswipe, a 5-year-old company that provides payment processing software and hardware for small to mid-sized businesses, is relocating its home base to the recently redeveloped HandCraft building at 1501 Roseneath Road.

The company, run by CEO Tim Ryan, leased the entire 6,400-square-foot second floor of the 87,000-square-foot building that’s been transformed in recent years from an industrial laundry facility to modern office, brewery and retail space.

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