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2022 SESSION


HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 210
Commending the Innsbrook Foundation.
 
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 14, 2022
Agreed to by the Senate, February 17, 2022
 

WHEREAS, for more than three decades, the Innsbrook Foundation enhanced cultural life in the Richmond region by hosting concerts and events at Innsbrook Corporate Center in Henrico County; and

WHEREAS, the Innsbrook Foundation was established in the mid-1980s by Sidney J. Gunst, Jr., who in 1979 began developing Innsbrook Corporate Center, one of the region’s largest office parks with numerous corporate tenants representing more than 23,000 employees; and

WHEREAS, the Innsbrook Foundation hosted many unique events such as St. Paddy’s Palooza, Taste of Virginia, and Innsbrook After Hours, a midweek concert series appealing primarily to workers in Innsbrook Corporate Center, and to music patrons throughout the Richmond area; and

WHEREAS, at its height, the Innsbrook Foundation’s flagship Innsbrook After Hours concert series welcomed approximately 100,000 patrons over the course of a year, with more than two dozen concerts highlighting local and national artists; and

WHEREAS, through Innsbrook After Hours and other events, the Innsbrook Foundation built a strong sense of community in western Henrico County while fostering business development and good corporate citizenship; and

WHEREAS, the Innsbrook Foundation worked diligently to promote and support local charitable organizations and raised $2.1 million benefiting worthy causes in 2019 alone; and

WHEREAS, the Innsbrook Foundation hosted the final Innsbrook After Hours concert on September 29, 2021, featuring the 1980s-rock tribute band Tëaze, and the organization officially closed on November 15, 2021; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend the Innsbrook Foundation for its 36 years of service to the Richmond community; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the Innsbrook Foundation as an expression of the General Assembly’s admiration for the organization’s decades of contributions to cultural life in the Richmond area.