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[burt]

I may be in the wrong thread to post this, but the subject company IS suburban (damn it!).

Capital One, locally headquarted on a campus spread in Goochland's West Creek, is AGAIN cutting jobs.  Last November. 750 company-wide jobs were eliminated (about half of that number in Richmond).  Now, an additional 170 Richmond jobs are on the chopping block.  These positions are to out-sourced to an IBM division and, as is the current big business trend, many of the jobs will go to India.

At its peak, Cap One employed 10,125 people in the Richmond area.  That employment figure, as of January 2005, was down to 7,346.

Today's RTD is the source of this information.  Check it for the full story.

[burt]

burt, on May 26 2005, 10:51 AM, said:

I may be in the wrong thread to post this, but the subject company IS suburban (damn it!).

Capital One, locally headquarted on a campus spread in Goochland's West Creek, is AGAIN cutting jobs.  Last November. 750 company-wide jobs were eliminated (about half of that number in Richmond).  Now, an additional 170 Richmond jobs are on the chopping block.  These positions are to be   out-sourced to an IBM division and, as is the current big business trend, many of the jobs will go to India.

At its peak, Cap One employed 10,125 people in the Richmond area.  That employment figure, as of January 2005, was down to 7,346.

Today's RTD is the source of this information.  Check it for the full story.

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A little sunshine:  IBM will establish an operation in Richmond and hire 50 people to help with the out-sourced Capital One jobs, so they won't all go to India and elsewhere.

[wrldcoupe4]

closing Kroger won't sit empty for long in C-field:

The Ashley Companies have sublet 50,712 square feet of retail space at Victorian Square Shopping Center from Kroger for a new Ashley Furniture store at 10921 Hull St.

[eandslee]

wrldcoupe4, on May 26 2005, 09:19 PM, said:

closing Kroger won't sit empty for long in C-field:

The Ashley Companies have sublet 50,712 square feet of retail space at Victorian Square Shopping Center from Kroger for a new Ashley Furniture store at 10921 Hull St.

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That is great news!  I sure would hate to see that shopping center go empty while everything new was heading further west.  It's good to hear that businesses that are moving out will be quickly replaced.  Thanks for the reassuring news!

[burt]

Wouldn't it be great if turn-over of vacant space downtown was as quick as in the burbs? B)

[eandslee]

burt, on May 27 2005, 01:51 AM, said:

Wouldn't it be great if turn-over of vacant space downtown was as quick as in the burbs? B)

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It would be nice Burt, but it would also be nice if the, virtually, empty space on 360 between the old Manchester High School and the area around 288 would fill in instead of the big jump of development.  How dumb was that to let that go on?  Chesterfield is crazy someti...I mean, they are crazy a lot of the times!  Ryan Ramsey the author of RCW works for Chesterfield County (who just moved to the City of Richmond by-the-way), but I'm sure he doesn't have enough "say" as to what Chesterfield decides on in the way of how development occurs there.  Oh well.  At least someone with some brains is working for the county!  

[wrldcoupe4]

I agree, the county's growth practices consistently leave me going..."wtf???". I think a green line like they have in Va Beach should be put in place and developers should do gentrification in the county's older sectors before building up on new land.

[rusthebuss]

wrldcoupe4, on Jul 11 2005, 11:48 PM, said:

I agree, the county's growth practices consistently leave me going..."wtf???". I think a green line like they have in Va Beach should be put in place and developers should do gentrification in the county's older sectors before building up on new land.

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I really think that alot people want to live in the burbs and want to be fairly close to work. Also its cheaper to build in the burbs than build in Downtown. Plus the county has more land at a cheaper price and they can build parking lots not parking garages.

[rusthebuss]

Also, the only thing keeping that green line in Vabeach is Oceana! If Oceana closes you can kiss that green line good bye!

[wrldcoupe4]

I agree its cheaper, but the county's growth patterns are sporatic and chaotic at best sometimes. Growth is inevitable, but it should at least be responsible. A 5000+ home development is planned off rt 360 west of Woodlake and Hampton Park. Why are we going soooo far westward when there is still plenty of available land to the east that has been skipped over?? The sporatic growth hurts the county in more ways than it helps. Infrastructure can't keep up. Have any of you been on Hull St near brandermill lately? TRaffic is an absolute nightmare. Most of the schools are overcrowded, response times for fire and ems are being stretched endangering lives. Stretching water and gas lines to leap frogged developments becomes costly for the county. When I say gentrification, I mean smart reuse of older sectors. The Cloverleaf Mall plan is a good example. I could go on and on but I have touched on a few points.

[rusthebuss]

Well one thing is the developers are buying the land and its generally up to the developers. When the counties tell them no they will go somewhere else to develop so the counties don't want that. It generally comes to how much the land went for. Maybe those locations where to high for what they wanted to spend and maybe it wasn't enough land for what they had designed.

[wrldcoupe4]

basically because many of these developers don't give a d***. In the end, the people that suffer end up being the residents and students. The best the county can do to compensate for the negative effects is require proffers. The price of land isn't really the case. Compare land value in the eastern midlothian corridor to the western Hull st. corridor.

[burt]

The town of Chester is planning - in fact, raising funds for - their very own performing and static arts center.  And guess what?  It will be named the Dotty Armstrong Center.  She's Brad's mother, and when Brad was a tot growing up in Chester, his mother and father founded the John Rolfe Players and strove to establish an arts scene in the Chester area.

The Glenn Allen center out in the northwest part of Henrico is well established and doing just fine.

The old Henrico Theatre on Nine Mile Road in Highland Springs is currently undergoing renovation to become the performing arts center for the eastern part of the county.

I most devoutly wish this sort of thing were going on in depressed parts of the city to offer opportunities for kids in drug-ridden, crime infested areas.  The shuttered old Robinson Theater in Church Hill; the Venus on Hull street and the Brookland on the boulevard of that name are buildings that should be used in this effort.

[wrldcoupe4]

according to a recent in-depth study by Money magazine, Midlothian is the 37th best Great American Town. The magazine gave a comprehensive look at more than 1,300 cities, examining everything from air pollution index to the number of watering holes. Midlothian scored high in median income ($80,381 compared to its competitor average of $68,160) and crime risk, averaging half the personal and property crime rate of its average competitor.

[wrldcoupe4]

Somewhat informative article about the fate of Cloverleaf Mall:

Cloverleaf hanging on

a couple tidbits:

"Tentative plans for the 82-acre site call for a complete redevelopment with homes, offices and retail space. The project plans will be revealed at two meetings next month at the mall on Midlothian Turnpike at Chippenham Parkway. One meeting will be held Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. and the other on Aug. 18 at 7 p.m."

"Chesterfield hopes the anticipated $200 million to $300 million worth of homes, businesses and stores built on the redeveloped site will be an economic catalyst for the Midlothian Turnpike corridor that connects Richmond to the county.

"The added value that will come about as a result of the redevelopment, we think will be huge," deputy county administrator Millard D. "Pete" Stith Jr. said. "We think that the success of the [redeveloped] mall [property] is going to positively impact Midlothian Turnpike in both directions.""

[eandslee]

Here are some links to growth news for Chesterfield County.  Looks like there will be another Wal-Mart across from Woodlake off of 360 just 3 miles away from another Wal-mart on the other side of 288.  Check out the links:

County Observer Article 1

The following link is about the new Saint Francis Medical Center set to open at the end of this month:

County Observer Article 2

[wrldcoupe4]

I cannot believe there will be two Super-Walmart's that close to one another. The growth on the Western Hull St corridor is simply amazing. It's becoming suburbia on steroids. They're gonna need an extension to Powhite to relieve 360's traffic woes soon!

just some stats:
-within two miles of the site, there are more than 1.5 million sf of retail with more added virtually every day
-there are 17,000 homes approved within 3 miles of the site, almost 5,000 of which are from a single upcoming development: Magnolia Green which will be the largest planned community in Virginia.
-Woodlake and Brandermill alone already have almost 4,000 homes EACH. Both communities also have over 50 neighborhoods each.

Is it just me or is NOVA gridlock fast approaching that part of Chesterfield. oh yea, and they better not stop building schools! good lord!

[vdogg]

wrldcoupe4, on Aug 26 2005, 12:43 AM, said:

I cannot believe there will be two Super-Walmart's that close to one another.

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Walmart strikes again.

[burt]

vdogg, on Aug 26 2005, 10:48 AM, said:

Walmart strikes again.

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...and again, and again, and again...!LOL

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wrldcoupe4, on Aug 26 2005, 12:43 AM, said:

I cannot believe there will be two Super-Walmart's that close to one another. The growth on the Western Hull St corridor is simply amazing. It's becoming suburbia on steroids. They're gonna need an extension to Powhite to relieve 360's traffic woes soon!

just some stats:
-within two miles of the site, there are more than 1.5 million sf of retail with more added virtually every day
-there are 17,000 homes approved within 3 miles of the site, almost 5,000 of which are from a single upcoming development: Magnolia Green which will be the largest planned community in Virginia.
-Woodlake and Brandermill alone already have almost 4,000 homes EACH. Both communities also have over 50 neighborhoods each.

Is it just me or is NOVA gridlock fast approaching that part of Chesterfield. oh yea, and they better not stop building schools! good lord!

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Maybe they should try to start urbanizing the area if it is to be such an important part of the community. Tysons is supposed to be trying to do just that themselves.