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Feature: Richmond’s Rockett’s Landing

admin @ December 21, 2008 # Comments Off

Behind the secretive plans to turn Richmond’s old dock into a gold mine.
Inside Business, Monday January 22, 2001
Mention Rocketts’ Landing to anyone with financial ties to the Richmond riverfront and chances are you’ll receive a steely response.
To date, investors and developers have treated the Rocketts’ Landing development project more like the famous Manhattan Project than [...]

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Column: Downtown Street Parking

admin @ December 20, 2008 # Comments Off

Downtown Richmond needs more street parking.
(Published 2001)
Most mornings, as I pull into an on-street parking space on 19th Street in Shockoe Bottom, I think about diagonal parking.
Why, you ask? Am I that much of a bore?
INSIDE BUSINESS’ office is at 19th and East Franklin. The street where I park is one way, with diagonal parking [...]

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News: Richmond’s Plan to Raze Broad Street

admin @ June 1, 1999 # Comments Off

From the Corridor Real Estate Journal, Washington, D.C.
RICHMOND - Richmond’s City Council took the first official step to beginning the $322 million Grace Park Center downtown revitalization project by approving a Broad Street redevelopment district that would allow for eminent domain.
Jack Berry, executive director of Richmond Renaissance, the downtown development agency which put together the [...]

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