
Openings & Closings
Virginia's largest single hospitality opening in a generation lands off I-95 in November 2026: 907 rooms, 13 food and beverage outlets, and a hiring target that will pull staff from Richmond to Fredericksburg. Here is what operators in that corridor should be watching.

Alcohol
The Mixed Beverage Annual Review is due on your license anniversary, not a fixed date, and the records it depends on have to be built months earlier. Here is what it is and where operators get caught.

Alcohol
Not the interesting numbers. The ones that decide whether you keep your license. Each one is a threshold somebody crosses without noticing.

Alcohol
Virginia ABC issues more than seventy license and permit types. Most operators only ever need one of about a dozen. Here is how to find yours without reading the whole code.

Alcohol
HB 975 replaced the flat 45% food requirement for mixed beverage licensees with three tiers keyed to monthly food sales, and added a new seating rule. The change took effect July 1, 2026.