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The Ukrops say they will refocus on their flagship location in downtown Richmond.

The Charlottesville version of Richmond’s Quirk Hotel has been sold to a New York buyer that plans to rebrand it later this year.

After a run that lasted just four years, Ted and Katie Ukrop's Charlottesville version of Richmond’s Quirk Hotel is under new ownership and will be rebranded later this year.

The new owner says it plans to change the hotels name sometime this fall.

The new owner says it plans to change the hotels name sometime this fall.

The firm, in addition to taking a minority ownership stake, is also now asset manager for the 73-room Ukrop family-owned boutique hotel.

“We’re a small, nimble group and it's hard to work with an operator that is just so big,” said Quirk’s owner of why he switched to Retro Hospitality. “It's like turning the Titanic sometimes to get something done.”

Retro Hospitality, which manages the Blackburn Inn in Staunton, will now be managing Quirk Hotel Richmond and Quirk Hotel Charlottesville.

The side-loading tanks, which are made specifically for lagers, will allow the brewery to increase its beer output by about 60 percent.

In a change of course from what was envisioned for a former motel site it still plans to develop, Virginia Union is planning a student-run hotel farther south.