by admin | Jul 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Click on The Richmond Review, 2nd Quarter 2016 for a summary of commercial real estate activity in Richmond. Highlights include: · Richmond is almost out of leasable warehouse space with the vacancy rate at 0.4%, although peak rental rates of over $0.50 from a year...
by admin | Jul 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Richmond unemployment rate for June 2016 hit a new record low of 4.6%. Out of a labor pool of 52,900 people, only 2,400 are still looking for jobs. 50,500 are employed. That is the lowest on record and perhaps the lowest in Richmond history except for during WWII....
by admin | Jul 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last night, Police Chief Allwyn Brown wrote: The Communication Center is experiencing a high volume of fireworks calls from neighborhoods across the city, in combination with recurring ShotSpotter activations – numbers that easily far exceed police officer...
by admin | Jul 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Turns out, the guy who invented CyberTran was a classmate of mine at the University of Arkansas. That doesn’t mean I think it’s right to spend Richmond’s scarce monetary resources subsidizing the privately-owned company’s public relations efforts. Then I get bashed...
by admin | Jul 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
As the first shoe to fall from the active Richmond Police Department investigation arising from the “Celeste Guap” scandal, Police Chief Allwyn Brown announced that he has evaluated the logic of continuing two of the named employees in their current...
