10 Responses to “Zuppa moving to Rocketts Landing”

1. posted by paul_h at June 27, 2009 8:01 am :
   

   And so the move to Henrico begins. Business gravitates toward people and profit. Zuppa could read the writing on the flood wall.

2. posted by David G at June 27, 2009 11:35 am :
   

   That whole area is just waiting for the recession to ease to explode with development and expansion.It’s the last section of the area not heavily built up.White Oak exists because of this coming boom.Rockett’s Landing same story.

3. posted by cld at June 29, 2009 9:48 am :
   

   What did you expect? Zuppa was simply hanging on waiting to see if Richmond had the guts to develop the bottom. It didn’t. Now the bottom will wither further and become more of a dead zone. It really pains me to watch Shockoe bottom languish. Vacant storefronts dominate the area and will only continue to grow without vision from this wasted city. Hey David G….Explode with development??? pleeez…. you haven’t lived in Richmond long!

4. posted by Scott Burger at June 29, 2009 11:42 am :
   

   Keep in mind that the City of Richmond has the highest meals tax in the country to pay for the white elephant downtown art center Center Stage.

   Meanwhile Henrico…

5. posted by David at June 29, 2009 2:43 pm :
   

   If my reading of the budget, and my math skills are correct, always an iffy chance, the add on to the meals tax brings in this year $3,892,645. The money goes into the general fund to pay “debt service costs related to cultural and educational facilities.” That equates to about two cents on the real estate tax rate. Since most estimates are that the mayor will have to cut an additional $30 million from the 2011 budget, we can then add the reductions from the meals tax. What fun. We would only have to raise the RE tax rate 17 cents just to break even.

6. posted by jay at June 29, 2009 5:18 pm :
   

   “Keep in mind that the City of Richmond has the highest meals tax in the country to pay for the white elephant downtown art center Center Stage.”
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   Sounds like someone is making up facts.

   If the meal tax for the city is not the highest in the state, how could it possibly be the highest in the county?

   Norfolk and Portsmouth have higher meal tax rates than Richmond does.

7. posted by Scott Burger at June 30, 2009 11:51 am :
   

   What’s the rate in Norfolk/Portsmouth?

   http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2009/03/rant-10-tax-on-restaurant-meals-in-dc.html

8. posted by jay at June 30, 2009 2:10 pm :
   

   city……….sales tax meal tax
   norfolk……….. 5.0% 6.5%
   richmond………. 5.0% 6.0%
   alexandria…….. 5.0% 5.5%
   ronoake city…… 5.0% 5.0%

   fairfax co…….. 5.0% 4.0%

   NOTE: food tax is (i think) 2.5%, so you pay that at the grocery/convenience store for food instead of 5.0%.

   henrico, chesterfield, and hanover do not charge a meal tax.

9. posted by Scott Burger at June 30, 2009 4:51 pm :
   

   “henrico, chesterfield, and hanover do not charge a meal tax.”

   This is why I am in the Wendy’s on Broad and some guy is asking me if we are in Richmond or not. He wants to know if he can afford lunch.

10. posted by paul_h at July 1, 2009 7:40 am :
    

    Wendy’s? Scott really.

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