Business in brief - Mar. 15, 2021

Richmond International Airport recently achieved Global Biorisk Advisory Council STAR accreditation, which recognizes it as having implemented the most stringent protocols for cleaning, disinfection, and infectious disease prevention in its facilities. As the cleaning industry’s only outbreak prevention, response, and recovery accreditation, GBAC STAR helps organizations establish protocols and procedures, offers expert-led training, and assesses a facility’s readiness for biorisk situations. The program verifies that the airport implements best practices to prepare for, respond to and recover from outbreaks and pandemics. To achieve the accreditation, RIC was required to demonstrate compliance with the program’s 20 core elements, which range from standard operating procedures and risk assessment strategies to personal protective equipment and emergency preparedness and response measures.

Richmond Raceway and Sheetz have extended their multi-year partnership to include the naming rights of the track’s long-time season ticket program, Richmond Nation. The nation’s fastest-growing family-owned and operated convenience retailer will continue as the Official Convenience Store of Richmond Raceway. The official name of the season ticket program will now be Richmond Nation presented by Sheetz. The program is for season ticketholders who have NASCAR Cup Series tickets to both April and September race weekends. Members of Richmond Nation presented by Sheetz will receive special pricing on tickets, along with exclusive benefits.

HCA Healthcare Capital Division recently hired Shaila Menees as its senior vice president of strategy and business development, effective Mar. 22. Menees has more than 15 years in healthcare leadership and brings experience growing and developing service lines, cultivating strategic physician relationships, and executing strategy. For the past six years, Shaila has served as HCA Healthcare’s associate vice president of cardiac and vascular service lines in Nashville, Tenn. Previously, she was with HCA Healthcare Capital Division as vice president of cardiovascular services after having served as an associate administrator at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital. In addition to her HCA experience, Menees worked in consulting and strategy development for various healthcare organizations. Menees earned her bachelor of arts in international studies from UNC Chapel Hill and her masters in health services in health finance and management from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Keiter CPAs recently announced that the leader of the firm’s Risk Advisory service team has received Registered Practitioner status with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Accreditation Body. In addition, Keiter has become a Registered Provider Organization in the CMMC Marketplace. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is a cybersecurity framework that the Department of Defense (DoD) has instituted for prime and subcontractors wanting to provide products or services to the DoD. The CMMC framework has five maturity levels that DoD contractors will be subject to based on the type of sensitive information they have access to during their service contract.

Have Site Will Travel and The Man with Square Feet recently announced the lease of 2,750 SF at 1102 Welborne Avenue in Henrico County. The landlord is Castlewood Holdings, LLC and the tenant is Allan Myers VA Inc. John Jay Schwartz, managing director of Have Site Will Travel, Ltd and The Man with Square Feet, represented the parties.

Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer recently announced the following lease transactions in Henrico County: Goradia Orthopaedics, PLLC – renewed its lease of 5,006 SF of office space at West Shore I, 100 Concourse Boulevard (Amy J. Broderick and Mark E. Douglas represented the landlord); Virginia Air Distributors, Inc. – subleased 4,736 SF of self-storage space at 2250 Dabney Road (Isaac DeRegibus represented the sublandlord); Cetera Financial Group, Inc. – renewed its lease of 3,491 SF of office space at East Shore III, 140 Eastshore Drive (Amy J. Broderick and Mark E. Douglas represented the landlord); Clean Eatz – leased 2,800 SF of retail space at The Corner at Short Pump, West Broad Street at Lauderdale Drive (Alicia Brown, Connie Jordan Nielsen and Nicki Jassy represented the landlord); RGI General Contractors – renewed its lease of 2,496 SF of industrial space at Gaskins Centre, 3801-3827 Gaskins Road (Evan Magrill represented the landlord and Dean Meyer represented the tenant); Knowledge Works Global, Ltd. – leased 2,061 SF of office space at West Shore Office Park, 100, 201, 301 Concourse Boulevard (Amy J. Broderick and Mark E. Douglas represented the landlord); Old Dominion Asset Management, Inc. – leased 1,850 SF of office space at West Shore Office Park, 100, 201, 301 Concourse Boulevard (Amy J. Broderick and Mark E. Douglas represented the landlord); and Jiya Stores, LLC – leased 1,200 SF of retail space at Dunn Shopping Center, 3712 Mechanicsville Turnpike (Michael A. Shaia represented the landlord).