Jon Baliles of River City Rapids tells all at RVA News about the new theater complex currently under construction on the old Richmond Steel site on North Boulevard south of The Diamond. Whatever excitement you felt yesterday should triple today. Here’s Baliles’ recap (read the whole post if you want to feel really giddy): Let [...]
The new Community Kitchen at the Central VA Food Bank is open for business and looking for volunteers. The partnership project between the Food Bank and Meals on Wheels is designed to: Serve up to 10,000 meals daily in area Kids’ Cafes and seniors’ congregate settings, plus daily provide up to 3,000 home-delivered meals ‚ [...]
The following message is from the Richmond police’s Lt. Timothy R. Morley (4th Precinct – Sector 412): I’m asking for some help in raising the level of vigilance by people in our neighborhoods in response to recent incidents in which heat pumps and a/c units have been stolen from vacant / for sale homes in [...]
There has been a lot of talk about a new theater/retail complex coming to the former Richmond Steel building on North Boulevard just south of the Diamond. (Since way back in May of 2006 and as recently as Style Weekly’s breaking news last week on the project.) Today, that talk turned into action. Richmond.com and [...]
There will be a public hearing on the proposed Richmond Downtown Master Plan held this Monday, December 3, at 6:30 pm in the 5th floor conference room of City Hall. For details on the proposed Downtown Master Plan, visit the city’s Department of Community Development website or Buttermilk & Molasses weblog.
“Juke Joint on the River,” a jazz party, will be held this Saturday, December 1, at the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities’ Hotchkiss Community Center, 701 East Brookland Park Boulevard from 6:00 until 10:00 pm. Admission is $6 per person at the door. Dinner tickets are $8 for fried fish or chicken, sides, [...]
Councilman Christopher Hilbert will hold his Northside 3rd District meeting tomorrow evening (Wednesday, November 28) from 6:00 until 7:30 pm in room 245 of the Richmond Police Academy, 1202 West Graham Road (1 block west of Brook Road behind Virginia Union University). All members of the Third District are invited and encouraged to attend. Key [...]
The Times-Dispatch has all the details on Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s extravagant Gardens of Light holiday illumination: How many lights are up at Lewis Ginter? About 500,000. How long has it taken to arrange them? Staff members began putting them up on Labor Day. How much do the lights add to the electric bill? About [...]
WRIC provides a bit more insight into the shooting death that took place earlier today just north of the intersection of Chamberlayne Avenue and Brookland Park Boulevard: Richmond Police are investigating a bizarre string of incidents Tuesday morning that led to the city’s 49th homicide of the year. According to police, officers responded to a [...]
Style Weekly has the latest on plans for a multi-screen movie theater and companion retail center on the 11 acres of land on Boulevard just south of the Diamond. Groundbreaking for the Bow Tie Partners development happens next week at the former Richmond Steel property. Bow Tie co-founder Charley Moss foresees city approval of his [...]
