Short Pump News

When Henrico County businessman Mike Vines applied for a loan to open a second spa, he never imagined his transaction would become fodder for a national radio show.

The holiday season is chaos. Bar-none. Chaos. Crazed West End mommies at Short Pump Towne Center throw their Escalades into parking spots previously occupied by human traffic cones, screaming obscenities about finding Zhu Zhu Pets and "I Wet My Pants for Real!" baby dolls.

We gained new venues, lost old ones and had some huge success. Here are some of the biggest things good and bad to happen in arts this year.

Tucked into a slim space near the corner of Main and Washington streets, Brix, the newest restaurant in Lexington, opened at the end of October.

Heavy snow this past weekend not only blanketed neighborhoods and snarled traffic but also kept shoppers away from area malls and stores during one of the most important shopping days of the year.

New Kroger store: The Kroger store being built at 11801 W. Broad St. in Henrico County will replace the one in the nearby Brookhollow Shopping Center.

A winter storm socked the East Coast on Saturday and dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas, creating treacherous conditions and misery for motorists on the weekend before Christmas.

The newest Smart Way bus hummed along Interstate 81 from downtown Roanoke to Virginia Tech and back, a ceremonial journey for the Valley Metro commuter service on Thursday morning.

There is room for cars side-by-side, but everyone always merges ... What's up? -- Joey Sharon North , public information manager for the city of Richmond Department of Public Works, answers: I spoke with one of our engineers and apparently there is not striping down there and it appears that people can't judge where to drive to maintain two lanes, ...

A locally based private equity firm that's come to the rescue of West Broad Village has yet to resolve the last of $5.5 million worth of liens placed against the development.

The future of the Short Pump Community Center is in doubt, as two groups battle between keeping it open, or shutting at down.

Where are you going to eat lunch today? If you need some choices, here are my picks and the reasons why I like them: 1. Italian Kitchen West My all-time favorite place to eat.

Guys are always hard to shop for. We never know what we want and what we actually do want is way beyond people's price range .

Mark Smith, shown at his Short Pump store, owns four Midas Auto Service Experts locations in the Richmond area.

Retail Web sites kept amping up the deals yesterday to try to maintain the momentum after the Thanksgiving weekend's strong online sales.

Though the streets of the Fan are still peppered with remnants of smashed pumpkins and plastic spider rings, autumn is slowly coming to a close and it's time to usher in the "most wonderful time of the year." Santa Claus has staked out every mall from Short Pump Town Center to Willow Lawn, hot and itchy under his cheap polyester suit as he suffers ...

After nearly 50 years in the same spot, Virginia Paint Co. is moving. "The building we're in is outdated and doesn't fit our LOUIS LLOVIO needs anymore," Stan Gasiorowski, retail operations manager for Virginia Paint, said about moving the company's operations at 3321 W. Broad St.

The light's are on , party people. We're talking about the Tacky Lights . Houses all over town will be dripped, drenched and double-dipped in thousands of lights for the holiday season.

Franco's Fine Clothiers is opening a store this week in the Chesterfield Towne Center for the holiday shopping season -- and maybe longer.

There are a few entrances and exits to the Downtown Expressway that confuse me. The ones that confuse me the most are where the toll is pretty cheap but there's never an operator and the arm is never down.