Archive for 'Small Business'
Thailand restaurant likely to move
Kem and Phil McCombie, owners of north Old Town’s Thailand restaurant, are a planning commission vote away from moving to new digs at the corner of Montgomery and North Fairfax streets. The couple, who also owns [...]
Nando’s chicken eatery eyes King Street location
Goodbye Cajun fried chicken and hello Peri-Peri flavored poultry. The South Africa-based Nando’s, a restaurant chain trading heavily on the Portuguese-style, flame grilled chicken dish catching fire in the Washington region, wants to open their latest [...]
Neighborhood Pharmacy wins Heart of Del Ray award
The Del Ray Business Association honored the Neighborhood Pharmacy of Del Ray with its annual community award last week. Each year around Valentine’s Day the DRBA honors a business that exhibits the “heart and soul” of [...]
Patrick’s Maison Objet expands with new space
After nearly five years in the home décor business, local storeowners Troy Englert and Patrick Dempsey have opened a second location in Old Town to house their new furniture division. The co-owners of Patrick’s Fine Linens [...]
Out of the Attic: Where’s the beef? On the corner of Cameron and Henry.
Armour and Company, a slaughterhouse and meat packing business established in Chicago in the 1860s, had an operation in Alexandria at the beginning of the 20thcentury. By 1909, the Armour facility at the corner of King [...]
Gelato shop approved in old icehouse building
After icing the project to compromise with city preservationists and planners, city council candidate Boyd Walker gained approval to open a gelato shop at 200 Commerce St. in Old Town last week. Built in 1931, the [...]
Bombay Curry Company to open in Del Ray
Bombay Curry Company, an Indian restaurant once tucked away on the ground floor of The Calvert apartment building, is reopening at 2607 Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray, and locals are embracing it with wagging tongues. [...]
Small businesses unite under one blog
A new blog written for, by and about Alexandria small businesses launched this week at www.alexandriasmallbusiness.com. The Alexandria Small Business Development Center partnered with Ray Sidney-Smith, president of W3 Consulting, to launch the business blog. “What [...]
CVS move leaves prime King Street parcel open
From King Street to King Street, the Old Town CVS Pharmacy began serving customers at its new location across from the city courthouse today. A passerby or two already has been tricked into trying to enter [...]
Future of Old Town Theater space up in the air
The Old Town Theater’s new owner, Robert Kaufman, is looking for tenants to fill the nearly 100-year-old film house, but hasn’t ruled out giving the building’s original purpose an extended lease. Kaufman has a couple of [...]
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