RVANews-news archive
January 25, 2008
get your share of 1,000 gallons of free paint
Commonwealth Construction will give away more than 1,000 gallons of left over paint beginning today at 11AM at 521 N. Adams St. Some of the paint has been partially used, some is unopened 1- and 5-gallon containers. [via]
January 8, 2008
Carver #6 for auto thefts
1,235 cars were reported stolen in Richmond last year. Of Richmond’s more than 120 neighborhoods, Carver was #6 with 33 cars being reported stolen in 2007. The top 7 were: Jahnke Road (53), Midlothian Business Corridor (48), The Fan (43), Jeff Davis (37), Northrup (34), Carver (33), and Ginter Park (32). [via]
January 1, 2008
Jackson Place derailed
The RRHA announced yesterday that it has ended talks with Trammell Crow Residential on Jackson Place, a mixed-use, mixed-income community development, 13 months after the project was announced. Housing authority officials said that they will seek new development proposals early in 2008. [via]
The revelation that no contract was completed for the project came as the latest in a long series of disappointments for Charles W. Finley, president of the Historic Jackson Ward Association.
“We’ve been waiting for a long time,” Finley said yesterday. “It has been sitting there as vacant land for a long time. A lot of people are tired of seeing concepts come and concepts go, and nothing ever happens.”
December 26, 2007
redevelopment of Dove Court “is a pilot” for Gilpin
The planned redevelopment of the 44-year-old 60-unit Dove Court housing complex at First Avenue and Dove Street is being held up as pilot for what could happen at Gilpin Court in the coming years:
What happens at Dove Court early next year also is likely to influence the future of Gilpin Court, the city’s oldest and largest public-housing complex. The housing authority and city are working on a study to eventually redevelop Gilpin as part of a broader plan for Jackson Ward, especially the part of the neighborhood that lies north of Interstate 95. [...] The 60 units of public housing that will disappear with Dove Court will return as part of a 260-unit, mixed-income community that won’t concentrate the poorest residents in one place. Not all of the 783 housing units in Gilpin will be replaced in the community that takes its place, Hill-Christian said. “Some units of public housing will have to go to another place.”
December 25, 2007
shooting on Charity Street
28-year-old Michael Jackson was shot and killed at 6 West Charity Street at around midnight last night in violence stemming from a domestic argument. Police are looking for 17-year-old Merwin R. White the for murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony. [via]
December 21, 2007
Eggleston threatened with demolition
We’ve heard that the historic Eggleston Hotel has come close to emergency demolition in the past week due to its rapidly deteriorating condition. With work at the hotel apparently stalled since fences went up in November, maybe this will spur quicker action to save the landmark building.
December 15, 2007
Maggie Walker Governor’s School 2nd in nation in Knowledge Master Open
The Maggie Walker Governor’s School finished second in the nation in the recent Knowledge Master Open, a computer-based competition of 748 high schools from 49 states and 6 foreign countries. Out of 2,000 possible points, Maggie Walker’s team finished only 2 points behind the first place team, Bergen County Academies of New Jersey. The Maggie Walker team of 22 students was first for its size division (501-1000). Maggie Walker’s team members who are in the 9th grade competed in the Junior High Division of the KMO competition and finished first in the nation with a score of 1733 (in a field of 136 teams from 31 states and 3 foreign countries). [via]
December 2, 2007
Show your support for the updated Downtown Master Plan on Monday
The first public hearing on the recently released updated Downtown Master Plan will be Monday, Dec.3rd at 6:30PM at the City Planning Commission meeting in the 5th floor conference room in City Hall. Backers of this vision of Richmond’s future are urging citizens to turn out to show their support for the plan.
December 2, 2007
overflow shelter at Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
The Richmond Free Press’ “Overflow shelter for homeless at Sixth Mount Zion” profiles Sixth Mount Zion’s transformation on nights when forecasts call for temperatures below 35 degrees. The church on Duvall Street was selected for the city-financed program because of the church’s central location and active in community outreach programs.
November 26, 2007
Richmond Downtown Master Plan draft due today
A draft version of the Richmond Downtown Master Plan is scheduled for release today. The draft will be available for review on the City’s web page, at City Hall, and at City libraries and community centers. There will also be an informal work session to receive the draft at noon in City Council Chambers in City Hal. City staff and the planning team will present an overview of the document and answer questions from the Planning Commission. All are welcome to attend to listen to the presentation.
November 14, 2007
spirit of survival
Central to the RTD’s look at the vitality of city churches is the example of Rev. Tyrone Nelson and Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and its growing congregation.
November 11, 2007
bird in Carver darkens much of the city
An estimated 5,200 customers in the downtown Richmond area are without power as a result of an outage at the Carver Substation that occurred at 1:30PM today when a bird that flew into a transformer. [via]
