Shockoe Bottom
Richmond is gearing up for the bicycle race of a lifetime in 2015. The Washington Redskins start camp behind the Science Museum of Virginia this summer. And after a four-year hiatus, plans to build a ballpark in Shockoe Bottom appear to be back on.
That represents, conservatively, about $25 million of the city’s very limited resources. Which begs the question: Are they worth it? Link
Sources say Richmond City Council members are frustrated because they haven’t been included in any conversations.
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Sources also say neighboring counties have not been involved in the conversations lately. Link
Dotson tells NBC12 he might not have handled this situation 100% correctly, but believes he also didn’t do anything that deserved this level of physical response. Link
A video surfacing from Shamrock the Block in Shockoe Bottom is raising questions, and it has some asking if Richmond Police went too far. Link
Partnership for Smarter Growth asked the question and gave the answer, I’m just here to report what they said. This year’s annual River City Saunter was entitled “What’s Up in the Bottom?” and it was held inside Main Street Station before about 80 curious and enlightened Richmonders.
proposed rehabilitation of the train shed at Main Street Station: $26 million
Richmond’s City Council is considering measures which could secure funding for a total transformation of the Main Street Station train shed.
As Richmond ponders for the umpteenth year on whether, how and where to build a baseball stadium, speakers at Tuesday’s 22nd Annual Real Estate Trends Conference had a few pointed words of advice.
Build it. Do it thoughtfully and strategically. And do it in downtown Richmond, not in the outlying areas of the city or the suburbs.
The city’s moving ahead with plans to radically redesign the 17th Street Farmers’ Market in Shockoe Bottom. Officials requested bids Oct. 2 from architecture and engineering companies to transform the market into “an open urban square that better relates to its immediate surroundings.”
It was with great concern that we read the opinion piece “Build a ballpark in downtown” published in the Aug. 5 Commentary section of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The renewed call for a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom is no home run to preservationists, activists and other proponents of a slavery museum in Shockoe Bottom, once one of America’s busiest slave-trading markets.