Cornerstone Architects joins First Friday’s Artwalk, the first economic development program for artists in the Commonwealth.

First Fridays Artwalk - Richmond’s premier night out for the best art of the city! Eleven diverse arts facilities, located along the Historic Broad Street Corridor, participate in the Art Walk showing knockout exhibitions. All events are free and open to the public.

Cornerstone Architects opens its ‘Cornerstone Gallery’ doors the first Friday monthly, exhibiting a different local artist’s talents each month. This is a wonderful venue to create awareness and appreciation of arts and culture in Virginia.

Cornerstone Architects wants to promote the local visual-arts by linking artist to the area and helping them connect to other economic opportunities.

Style Weekly, a Richmond weekly cultural paper, recognized First Fridays as ‘The Most Exciting Thing to Happen in the Arts Community’. Over 31,000 people attended First Fridays in …

Cornerstone Architects was recently asked by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to host & present a program at our recently completed adaptive re-use project in the historic Jackson Ward in Richmond, Virginia. The event was held on site at Popkin Tavern and Rich Morse, Principal in Charge at Cornerstone, waxed eloquently about the history of the project.

It all began when Steve Soble, President of Spare Time Chicago, first made contact with Cornerstone Architects in April 2003 on one of his frequent trips home to Richmond from Chicago where he owns 10 family style theme restaurants.  Cornerstone Architects had just finished rehabbing a similar size building at 23 wests Broad for our offices.    …