Innsbrook-based LandAmerica’s former 1031 exchange customers have come to the final stage of grief: acceptance. After a fiercely contested and emotional battle against the formerly Richmond-based title insurance company, 97 percent of the exchangers voted for the bankruptcy plan.

Just because you have cut back on luxuries, doesn’t mean your dog has to. Husband and wife team Don and Chris Vondriska are preparing to open Fido Park Avenue at the Shoppes at Westgate, located across from Short Pump Town Center.

A recent entrant to the local restaurant scene with a location in the Far West End has filed for bankruptcy protection. Pittsburgh-based Max and Erma’s filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday to stave off one major creditor. The Short Pump location is in the John Rolfe Commons Shopping Center.

Elephant Insurance held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday at its new office in the Concourse at Wyndham office park on Nuckols Road. The company, which is a division of UK-based Admiral Group, sold its first car insurance policy at the start of the month and sells only in Virginia for now.

Streambank will again be coming to Richmond to sell off the intellectual properties of a now defunct Short Pump-based retailer, S&K Menswear. The Massachusetts-based advisory firm helped another former Short Pump-based chain, Circuit City, sell it’s intellectual property, including trademarks and customer data.

Electronics retailer hhgregg announced plans to hire about 80 people to work at its two new stores in Richmond, one located at Short Pump Town Center and the other near Chesterfield Towne Center. The stores will open sometime around Thanksgiving.

And from the ashes, new life emerges. Sounds biblical, but in this case it applies to three entrepreneurs who have a plan to sell low-priced menswear online. Bert Hardy and two other former S&K Menswear executives are trying to take the S&K model and cut out the stores, leaving a profitable online operation. 

The former chief executive of Short Pump-based S&K Menswear has found a new home as the president of locally-based RetailData Services.The company collects information about supermarkets and sells it to the grocery industry.  Oliver said he wanted to stay in retail and had known about the company for a decade.

There’s more trouble for the formerly Innsbrook-based LandAmerica. A group of former 1031 Exchange customers are irate that lawyers’ fees are gobbling up money they hope to recover. Lawyers working for the bankrupt entity, as well as for the creditor’s committee, get paid from the disputed pot of money, while creditors must hire their own lawyers.

The former top lawyer at Innsbrook-based LandAmerica has taken a job as a vice president and general counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, upsetting some of the creditors owed money by her bankrupt former employer.