
The West End of Richmond is best known for fabulous shopping, beautiful residential communities and exceptional schools. Richmond’s West End is the perfect combination of city and suburban living. It offers river views, winding streets flanked by mature trees, and stately brick homes, and also corner restaurants, urban parks and boutique shopping. Richmond corporate apartment residents will be within close proximity to over 20,000 businesses. Some of the different companies that make the West End a business destination include Capital One Financial, Philip Morris USA, Circuit City Stores, Inc, Wachovia Securities, Performance Food Group, Owens & Minor, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, CarMax, Genworth Financial, Markel Corporation and Southern States Cooperative. Richmond corporate apartment residetns will find local shopping at Short Pump, which is the area located on West Broad Street between I-64 and Goochland County. Renowned for its numerous stores and shopping outlets, Short Pump offers many choices of stores. These include the Short Pump Town Center, a 1.2 million square foot open air shopping mall. Wander outside the city and discover in the West End, Ichiban, which serves scrumptious sushi. City Limit has replaced the former Potter's Pub. For Indian food, try India K'Raja. For barbecue, newcomer Grandpa Eddie's Alabama Ribs & BBQ is the place to be. The new Bleu Bistro will appeal to families, residents and Richmond corporate apartment residents. Richmond corporate apartment residents will be pleased to learn that the Henrico County school system made headlines when it was among the first in the nation to issue laptop computers to all middle and high school students to use throughout the school year. With more than 47,000 students, the district has 43 elementary schools; 10 traditional and two alternative middle schools; and eight regular and one alternative high school. Several parks are available to Richmond corporate apartment residents. Cheswick Park, Henrico's oldest neighborhood park, features a bike path, picnic shelters, exercise trail and playground. Deep Run Park occupies 167 acres and has two ponds, soccer and football fields, play areas, exercise trail, playground, a multi-use outdoor area and recreation center. Dorey Park has 400 acres with picnic areas, tennis courts, ball fields, equestrian ring, exercise and hiking trails, playground, fishing pond, disc golf course and recreation center. Crump Park/Meadow Farm Museum is a 150-acre farm and has been restored as a living history museum interpreting rural life in the 1860s, and has a picnic area, playground, trails and fishing pond. Three Lakes Park is a 118-acre community park offering a playground, fishing and hiking. Three Lakes Nature Center and Aquarium, days and hours vary.