Join Sarah Weisiger, from the Richmond Hostel Committee, and others, this evening at 7 pm, at the future hostel site located at 7 North 2nd Street, across from the main library. Agenda Items Outreach: Tours/Trips, Vicarious Travelers Series planning, and events Fundraising: Consultant news, Capital Campaign kickoff Building: News of upcoming rehab project
The City has narrowed the list of potential training camp sites for the Washington Redskins down to two, City Stadium and Leigh Street behind the Science Museum. The City considers the Leigh Street location, stretching from Hermitage Road to the Boulevard, an empty slate that would allow the Redskins an opportunity to design a facility [...]
From Richmond BizSense: College kids on gap years, backpackers and sojourners on a budget will soon have a place to rest their head in downtown Richmond. A planned youth hostel at 7 N. Second Street is working to get financing to fix up the building and hopes to open next year. BizSense caught up with [...]
Big changes are coming to the Meredith House in Jackson Ward. Vacant and suffering damage from fire and the elements, construction work on the house began this week. Architectural work will be provided by Ark Construction, who plans to renovate the property from the foundation up, including all electrical systems, the addition of the missing [...]
It’s only right that the John Marshall Barbershop is back in the John Marshall Hotel cum Apartments, yes it turns out there is such a term. Bill Lohman tell’s the story of Hugh Campbell’s long road home today’s (yesterday’s) Times-Dispatch. “It doesn’t get any better than this,” Campbell said with the biggest of smiles as he [...]
After two centuries, this tumble down house is still hanging on, barely. According to Historic Richmond it won’t have to wait much longer for some love. It has been known here alternatively as the “End of Jackson“, Barack Obama’s Summer White House and the “Ugliest House in Richmond, it is known to the rest world [...]
The front wall of 219 E Grace Street collapsed onto the sidewalk early this morning. This is one of two buildings that didn’t get renovated after ”Little Baghdad” nearly burned down in 2007. Anybody who is familiar with this building will not be surprised. Not so long ago there was a tree growing out of the roof. The [...]
Photo Credit: MARK GORMUS/TIMES-DISPATCH I found this story from the Times Dispatch via the Chicago Tribune . While credited, the story is printed in whole without any links back to the RTD. Can they do that? What’s more, why? For what its worth, here’s the link back to the original article. Go there to read the entire [...]
One of the most distinguished actors of his day, Charles Sidney Gilpin, was honored last month when this historical marker was placed near his birthplace in the heart of public housing complex that bears his name. There is money in Mayor Jones proposed budget for the redevelopment of the six remaining housing projects in Richmond. Here’s what Mark [...]
Are you a young, rad and chill musician? This may be just the ticket for you. On St. James BEFORE the highway which I take to mean South of I95, though the embedded map, which appears to be a mistake, shows it smack dab in the middle of Gilpin.
via Richmond BizSense: Another eyesore along the West Broad Street corridor near Virginia Commonwealth University might soon get a little sprucing up. Local general contractor and developer City & Guilds filed a special use permit for 1322 W. Broad St., near the intersection of Broad and Bowe, for a four-story apartment building with retail space [...]
I believe this is the parking lot on the NW corner of 2nd and Marshall across from Thai Corner and Island Bistro. From the RTD: The best probable use would be a mixed development primarily devoted to a limited service hotel, according to the city’s request for proposals. However, other approaches that underscore the unique [...]
