Name: Ronald Stallings, president, Walker Row Partnership Inc.

Projects: 2C condominiums; W.W. Browne House; Southern Aid Life Insurance Building; Jackson Commons Partnership; Tucker Cottage; Studio 516; Brook Road Lofts; other town houses in Jackson Ward

Accolades: 2008 Real Estate Visionary of the Year by Richmond Real Estate Group

The venues: Hippodrome Theater: built in 1904 and rebuilt after a fire in 1945; showplace for James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles and other black entertainers in segregated Richmond

Former Elks lodge/Taylor Mansion: designed by architect John Lankford and built in 1907 for the Rev. W.L. Taylor, a leader of the United Order of True Reformers; credited at the time with being the largest home of a black American in the United States