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TGM Realty Investors, Inc. has changed its name to Thalhimer Realty Partners, Inc., a change that represents the company’s continued strategic efforts to leverage the full service platform of its parent company, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, while maintaining its mission to provide real estate investment and development services on behalf of its investment partners. Thalhimer Realty Partners, Inc. manages a portfolio of commercial and multifamily assets valued at greater than $250 million.

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New Boston Fund and RER Equities, Inc. have leased 46,150 square feet of Class-A office space to Magellan Medicaid Administration at WestMark Two in Glen Allen. Magellan will occupy 23 percent of the five story, 204,622-square-foot building and is slated to move in on Sept. 1. New Boston and RER Equities have leased approximately 130,000 square feet at WestMark Two within the past five months, having previously completed an 83,414-square-foot lease with SunTrust Bank. Approximately 74,000 square feet (two floors) remain available.

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The University of Richmond’s Heilman Dining Center recently won the Loyal E. Horton Bronze Award for Residential Dining Special Event from the National Association of College and University Food Services. The winning event was a Titanic Memorial Dinner March 1, which honored the centennial anniversary of the fateful voyage. The Dining Center offered authentic dinner selections from Titanic menus and exhibited reproductions of the ship and other memorabilia, newspaper clippings from the period and a documentary of the disaster. In 2009, the Dining Center won the gold award for residential dining among medium-sized schools and the grand prize in the same category for all colleges and universities.

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Cushman & Wakefield Thalhimer recently handled the following lease negotiations: Showbest Fixture Corp. – leased 20,743 square feet at 4200-4222 Sarellen Rd.; and Dominion Uniserv Unit, Inc. – renewed its lease of 1,004 square feet in the Koger Building at 8001 Franklin Farms Dr.


Community

Short Pump Ruritan Club donates $50k to Virginia War Memorial

The Short Pump Ruritan/Civic Association Foundation, Inc. recently presented a check for $50,000 to the Virginia War Memorial Educational Foundation. The donation will be used to finance the production of a new film about the Vietnam War as part of the War Memorial’s award-winning Virginians at War film series. > Read more.

Vintage Home Market set for June 15-16

A longtime Lakeside business owner and his partner are bringing "The Vintage Home Market" to the Richmond International Raceway Complex June 15-16.

Tony Turner has operated a business on Lakeside Avenue for nearly 20 years, beginning with Huckleberries Home & Garden for 10 years in The Hub Shopping Center and followed by Feathernesters across the street in the Lakeside Town Center. > Read more.

Fan Care offers heat relief to seniors

Qualifying senior citizens can receive free relief from summer heat through the 23rd annual Fan Care program, which provides fans and cooling assistance to seniors 60 and older in need.

The program is an initiative of Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging for seniors who meet income eligibility requirements and have a situation that threatens their health. > Read more.

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Entertainment

A community ‘Kaffeehaus’ in Henrico’s Far West End

Born and raised in good old Europe, I am quite familiar with the traditional Austro-Hungarian tradition of the Kaffeehaus, an institution that represents a lifestyle of relaxing and thinking in a familiar environment with coffee, pastry, news, good service, marble tables, subdued sounds like the click-clack of the coffee machine, mugs and plates, conversations among patrons and with staff and a bit of low volume Johann Strauss music.

And so it was a thrill to find a modern version of a Kaffeehaus right here in Henrico County: The Daily Grind, near Short Pump Town Center. > Read more.

Oklahoma tornado victims to benefit from Innsbrook concert

The Innsbrook Foundation will present a special concert June 19 at the Innsbrook Snagajob Pavilion to raise funds benefiting the victims of the Moore and Shawnee communities of Oklahoma.

The Innsbrook After Hours RVA Cares event will feature five bands and a family festival in recognition of the many families devastated by the Oklahoma tornadoes on May 20, which killed 23 people, injured 377 others, and left destroyed and damaged homes affecting 33,000 residents. > Read more.

Food trucks arrive in the West End

West End residents no longer have to pick between fighting the summer mall crowds for a quick bite or breaking the bank to eat at a fine-dining spot because one Richmond group is bringing both to them.

RVA Street Foodies, the organization behind the outdoor food truck courts at the Virginia Historical Society and Hardywood Brewery, debuted its new Henrico food truck court at All Saints Episcopal Church on River Road May 22. > Read more.

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