Richmond bloggers have the scoop on several new developments around the city:
- A 60-unit condominium development on Richmond’s North Side, in the old Richmond Memorial Hospital. [via the brand new community blog: North Richmond News]
- A mixed-use building on a 1 acre vacant lot at the foot of Jefferson Hill Park. Plans call for retail, office, residential, parking, and a roof-top terrace and pool. [via chpn.net]
If the condo market is soft, as the TD reported several weeks ago and the vacant units in Nolde Bakery Condominiums seem to suggest, no one seems to have told the developers.
In other development news, I found this rendering of VCU’s new campus east of Belvidere, click on the thumbnail below for the full view:
June 21, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Seems like Richmond in general needs to take a couple of steps back, look around, and calm down for a second. Yes, we are growing. No, we don’t need everything turned into apartments and condos. More organic growth and less jumping the gun would be nice.
As far as the new VCU building go I’m all for it as long as they don’t tear down every old building in their path and open their arms to local businesses and restaurants and not take the easy money route and put more corporate chains like Eugene Trani is known for. At one point I heard about a Chili’s being integrated into the bottom of the new building. Why do we need that? This area has been and should continue to be about the local businesses not the generic, cookie cutter stuff that you see across every suburban strip mall. At least VCU brought Plan 9 into the bookstore. I’d like to see more of that happening.