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Sandra J. Pennecke is a reporter for Inside Business. She began writing for The Virginian-Pilot in 1999 as a correspondent and joined the staff in 2016.
Unanticipated delays, including the sale of the Del Taco brand to Jack in the Box last year, led to a setback, but the franchisee assures diehard Del Taco fans that he will have two locations open by next year.
Mitch and Cathy Peters opened Virginia's first Biggby Coffee in Virginia Beach, across from the city's municipal center. Mitch Peters, a retired Air Force master sergeant, hails from Michigan where Biggby Coffee is based.
My Open Workout is powered by iFIT app workouts while a Hampton University alum launched myfitCEO, a social networking app for fitness enthusiasts. StretchLab is also expanding in the region.
The Arts Alliance, formerly called the Business Consortium for Arts Support, expanded its mission to provide collaborative leadership and advocacy for the arts community.
Bob Arnette, owner of the former Alliance Christian Academy building in Portsmouth, reached out to Jeannie Hunt and offered her an equivalent space to operate her business.
The Hampton economic development specialist launched a website, Cycling Virginia, five years ago to consolidate and showcase the plethora of events, activities and clubs throughout the state. The site has about 70,000 unique visitors yearly.
Lynne Seagle has served as the executive director at Hope House Foundation since 1982. She was the driving force to move Hope House from providing support to people in group homes to supporting how they lived. By 1995, all of the nonprofit organization's clients lived in their own apartments.
Nicole and Paul Sincavage, co-owners of Cosmo's Corner, a doggy daycare and kennel in Virginia Beach, are expanding their business with the purchase of the iconic castle building on Lynnhaven Parkway.
Adrienne Randle, who goes by the artist's name Addie Rawr, couldn't find greeting cards featuring modern everyday Black women, so she drew her own. Almost a decade later, her small business has grown to include planners, journals, stickers, coloring books, bookmarks, mugs and other gift items.