Five-story mixed-use building planned near Northside brewery
Courtesy of Saunders + Crouse Architects)
A former deputy chief administrator for the City of Richmond is representing the team behind a proposal for a five-story building off a stretch of Chamberlayne Avenue that’s been attracting new investment in recent years.
Doug Dunlap, who served as the city’s director of housing, community and development before leaving City Hall in March 2020, is applying for a rezoning on behalf of a property owner that wants to develop a mixed-use building with 52 apartments at 711 Dawn St.
The half-acre site, at the corner of Tazewell Avenue just north of where it branches off from Chamberlayne, is across from Tabol Brewing, which opened its doors in 2019 as part of Chamberlayne Industrial Park.
On one of the final days of shooting
Sasquatch in Northern California, journalist David Holthouse was meeting a source on Spy Rock Road. The mountain is one of the most shadowy and sinister places in the weed-growing region remote, secluded, and notoriously violent. But the source, a weed grower who lived on the mountain, supposedly had information about the 1993 triple homicide that Holthouse was investigating for the documentary. So he went on his own and without cellphone service. Related Story
When he got there, she began telling a story about two guys who were murdered on the property recently. As if it was comedic, she relayed to Holthouse that her dog had dug up one of the men’s boots after he was buried because he had urinated himself before he was shot, and the dog picked up the scent. “She was telling me this story like it s the height of hilarity, right?, Holthouse tells Esquire. And on the outside, I m like laughing along with her, on the inside I m like, ‘
Westword staff writer stars in a three-part Hulu docu-series,
Sasquatch, which started streaming on 4/20 and not by coincidence.
Did Bigfoot kill three Mexicans on a pot farm in Mendocino County in 1993? That s the question Holthouse, who now lives in New Mexico, set out to answer when he returned to a northern California marijuana grow operation where he d worked with a buddy at the age of 23. Whether he answers that question turns out to be beside the point. The project reads like a distillation of Holthouse s life and career, in which his most notable piece of work (so far) was Stalking the Bogeyman, a recounting of being sexually assaulted at the age of seven and confronting his attacker, whom he d planned to shoot and kill.
Biotech firm Grenova to invest $10M, add 250 jobs at new Diamond-area HQ
April 21, 2021
Taking part in the groundbreaking were, from left: Secretary of Commerce and Trade Brian Ball, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, Gov. Ralph Northam, Grenova CEO Ali Safavi, Del. Jeff Bourne and Richmond Economic Development Director Leonard Sledge. (
Jonathan Spiers photos)
A homegrown health tech firm’s move across the river is coming with a $10 million investment expected to create hundreds of jobs over the next three years.
City and state officials gathered Tuesday for a ceremonial groundbreaking of the future home of Grenova, a biotech firm that’s moving from Southside’s Clopton Siteworks to the former Sampson Coatings facility at 1900 Ellen Road, about a block off Arthur Ashe Boulevard across from The Diamond.
Elaine Chung
In the fall of 1993, then-23-year-old David Holthouse went up to the Emerald Triangle in Northern California the largest cannabis-producing region in the United States to work on a weed farm. He had a friend up there and wanted to get away for a while. But his experience wasn’t anything like the escape he was hoping for. Instead, the densely wooded area was rife with paranoia. Weed farms sat behind giant locks, traps surrounded the plants, and workers in the region whispered about Sasquatch attacks at night.
One night while he was hanging out in front of the TV after a long day, two hysterical men arrived at the farm he was at, panicking about a Bigfoot attack at a neighboring farm. They said they had stumbled upon three men torn apart in the woods, with Bigfoot tracks surrounding them and weed plants scattered everywhere. Their fear was visceral. The farmer eventually calmed them down, and after they left, the workers who had witnessed the scene laughed it off unc