Business in brief - Aug. 10, 2020

The Latin Ballet of Virginia recently announced an award of $25,000 from the Altria Companies Employee Community Fund (ACECF) through the employee-led Giving Together Program. Employee volunteers make all ACECF funding decisions, and every employee dollar raised goes directly to support area nonprofits. The award comes at a particularly critical time. Since cancelling all live activities beginning March 2020, the Latin Ballet has suffered revenue losses yet continued to compensate all its artists. Latin Ballet Artistic Director Ana Ines King says the grant will allow dancers to keep training for the next season while continuing to create new online content.

Gaskins Properties, LLC recently purchased 0.656 acres located at 3901 Gaskins Road in Henrico from Doswell Properties, Inc. and Woodfin Heating, Inc. for $650,000. Robert Marshall of Taylor Long Properties represented the Buyer.

M. H. Braiding recently leased 900 square feet located at Laburnum Park shopping Center, 4382 S. Laburnum Avenue, Suite 1A. Ellen Long and Robert Marshall of Taylor Long Properties represented the Landlord.

The Innsbrook Foundation’s monthly gathering, Innsbrook Table Talks, will take place virtually via Zoom.com on Thursday, Aug. 20 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The meeting will feature a panel of business leaders who will discuss plans for rebuilding the Richmond economy post-COVID-19. The speakers are Floyd Miller, President/CEO, Metropolitan Business League; Lisa Simms, CEO, Venture Richmond; Nancy Thomas, President/CEO, Retail Merchants Association; Jack Berry, President/CEO, Richmond Region Tourism; and Brian Anderson, President/CEO, Chamber RVA. Cost is $15. Register here.

The Brent & Leabough Team, a sales team in Long & Foster Real Estate’s Innsbrook office in Glen Allen, recently was ranked No. 13 on the 2020 REAL Trends list of America’s Best Real Estate Agents. The Brent & Leabough Team earned a spot on the list for selling 120.55 properties for a total sales volume of $26 million in 2019. Patrick Gee, a sales associate in Long & Foster Real Estate’s Westham office in Henrico, was ranked No. 442 and 781 on the REAL Trends list for selling 97.55 properties for a total sales volume of $41.2 million in 2019. REAL Trends publishes the annual, production-based rankings to recognize the top U.S. residential real estate services firms, agents and teams based on their transaction sides and dollar sales volume.