Unlike Richmond, Petersburg hasn’t faced much opposition from the community. It has already selected The Cordish Companies, which has proposed a $1.4 billion casino-anchored development off ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new study found competing casino proposals in Petersburg and Richmond could coexist while remaining profitable but, so far, local leaders are rejecting that idea.

RICHMOND — Petersburg’s dream of possibly landing a casino that was dashed earlier this month by a powerful Senate Finance and Apporpriations Committee appears to have been revived in an amendment to ...

Aird disputed the allegation, and Petersburg City Council ultimately chose Cordish as the casino’s developer. In 2022, the Petersburg council voted to approve Cordish as a potential casino developer, ...

RICHMOND, Va. and PETERSBURG, Va., Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the leadership of Alliance-member organization J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College (Reynolds), the Alliance for Building ...

Between Richmond’s votes, Petersburg seized on the opportunity to boost its base with its own casino push. Efforts stalled in the 2022 and 2023 legislative sessions as Petersburg battled ...

According to a release from the Office of Senator Tim Kaine, $3.9 million will go to expanding workforce training programs to support the Richmond-Petersburg Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing ...

The Alliance for Building Better Medicine, a coalition of Richmond and Petersburg organizations working to build a research and manufacturing hub for essential medicines, will receive nearly $4 ...

The Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike in Virginia began early in 1958 as a response to rapid growth and suburbanization. By the time the highway opened in July 1958, the U.S. Congress had authorized ...

VSU gave me the best years of my life, and I wanted to give something I know was needed in Petersburg and by the community' — ...