Business in brief: Oct. 16, 2023

recently leased 35,457 SF of Class A office space at Willow Place, 5400 West Broad Street in Henrico. FNB has total assets of more than $44 billion and has approximately 350 banking offices with operations throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. FNB has 16 offices in the state of Virginia, but this is its first location in the Richmond market. Willow Place is a mixed-use center that includes HomeGoods, an executed grocery store, and Shake Shack. Connie Jordan Nielsen of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer handled the lease negotiations on behalf of the landlord.

Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer recently announced the following lease transactions in Henrico County: Carol’s Furniture – leased 4,000 SF of retail space at The Shoppes at Staples Mill & Glenside, 7101 Staples Mill Road (James Ashby IV and Alex T. Wotring represented the landlord); The Stitching Studio, LLC – leased 1,901 SF of retail space at 5611 Patterson Avenue (Annie O’Connor and Nicki Jassy represented the landlord); A1 Brows – leased 1,500 SF of retail space at Virginia Center Station, 1080 Virginia Center Parkway (James Ashby IV and Annie O’Connor represented the landlord).

A new landscape management company is now serving businesses in Henrico, Hanover and New Kent counties. ManageMowed of Northeast Richmond manages client relationships as well as a network of local, owner-operator landscape vendors to maintain business properties and facilities, offering landscape maintenance including lawn, beds, shrub and tree care, in addition to site inspections and assessments. ManageMowed also offers property enhancements such as storm clean-up, irrigation maintenance, fertilization, snow removal and other seasonal services. The business model is designed to streamline services for commercial property and facilities managers, such as self-storage businesses, gas stations, hotels, retail complexes, health care facilities and more. Currently operating in Virginia and nine other states, ManageMowed is run locally by husband-and-wife team Tracey and Jesse Morris, who came to the company from careers in the banking, finance and information technology industries. For details, visit managemowed.com/locations/ne-richmond or call 571-3778.

The Airport Business Association will hold its monthly networking event on Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Richmond Airport, 5252 Airport Square Lane in Sandston. Click here to register for this free event.

The RVA Career Expo will take place Friday, Oct. 20 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen. Approximately 100 companies will be onsite to recruit for jobs, internships, and business and educational opportunities. While hosted by the Richmond Chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association, attendees do not need to be Hokies in order to participate; the expo is open to the public and free to attend. To register or view participating companies and open positions, visit https://richmondhokies.org/careerexpo.

Bon Secours—Richmond Community Hospital will host Health Care Career Day on Saturday, Oct. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bon Secours Sarah Garland Jones Center for Healthy Living, 2600 Nine Mile Road. Bon Secours healthcare professionals and team members will be onsite to share their personal experiences and career paths working in health care. Recruiters will provide information on job opportunities available in the East End and across the Richmond area. Free flu shots will be available for all attendees.