Posts tagged Richmond
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A proposed Richmond area “agrihood” pairs affordable housing and urban agriculture
Virginia is one step closer to its first-ever affordable “agrihood”. Happily Natural, Girls for Change, and the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) have won a US Department of Agriculture planning grant to develop a nine-acre lot in the Chesterfield neighborhood of Bensley, just south of the Richmond city line. Keep reading…
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Richmond’s Pulse bus rapid transit gets the red carpet treatment
Thanks to a $2 million dollar grant from Virginia’s Department of Rail and Public Transit, Richmond will be among the first cities in the state to install red bus-only lanes. Keep reading…
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From parking to a park: can one Richmond surface lot prove the value of depaving?
Op-ed: The Science Museum of Virginia is transforming two acres of asphalt surface parking along Richmond’s Broad Street into a new public green space. Keep reading…
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What ever happened to those city-owned parcels Richmond pledged to affordable housing?
During his last run for mayor, Levar Stoney announced he would transfer 53 city-owned parcels to affordable housing providers. He won his reelection, but what ever happened to the promised parcels? Keep reading…
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How single-staircase buildings could impact Virginia’s housing market
Some planners in Virginia are looking at new ways to diversify housing types that can be built in the state, including authorizing single staircase buildings up to six stories. Keep reading…
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From pews to parking: can plans to turn a historic Richmond church into asphalt be stopped?
OPINION: Unless hotelier Bill Goodwin can be convinced to pursue adaptive reuse or if his demolition permit is revoked in less than a month, a parking lot could replace the imposing neoclassical Second Baptist Church in Richmond’s Monroe Ward. Keep reading…
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Mayor’s proposed budget set to kill Richmond’s zero-fare transit program by summer
The Department of Rail and Public Transportation grant requires matching funds in order to maintain the program: roughly $1 million in the first year of the pilot, $3 million in the second, and $5 million in the final year before the region is on its own to keep Richmond’s fare-free transit going. Keep reading…
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Chesterfield County, to Richmond’s south, is planning to launch its second-ever local bus route
A second big bus route expansion may soon be coming to Richmond’s southern surrounding county. Keep reading…
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Once hostile to transit, Richmond’s surrounding counties are now expanding bus service
Since Richmond’s launch of redesigned bus routes and the award-winning Pulse bus rapid transit line, the counties surrounding Virginia’s capital have softened their opposition to public transit and are beginning to see expanded bus service as key to their continued prosperity. Keep reading…
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Richmond plans to reconnect three communities to create a new mega-park
A design firm has drafted a plan for three new foot bridges that would link Libby Hill Park, Chimborazo Park, and the freshly acquired Gillies Creek Park — reconnecting communities separated by racialized “urban renewal” projects — with new bike- and walk-friendly infrastructure. Keep reading…