The City will be hosting a community meeting this Thursday (March 1st) to present the details for phase two of the Cannon Creek Greenway Bicycle & Pedestrian Trail. The consultant’s in charge of the project, the Department of Public Works, Economic Development, the RRHA, and a representative of the Richmond Raiders (who lease the nearby [...]
From today’s City Council Agenda: Ord. No. 2011-23 (Patron: Mayor Jones) — To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer to enter into a Lease Agreement between the Richmond Raiders and the City of Richmond to lease the Dove Street Armory located at 500 Dove Street. The RTD had and blurb about this a couple weeks ago: [...]
The planning for the Dove Street revitalization continues! There will be a meeting tonight at 6pm to discuss the status of the master plan as well plans for a community school. The meeting will be held at Overby-Sheppard Elementary School (2300 First Avenue).
Silver has put up video of a recent presentation on the Dove Street redevelopment at the Richmond City Council Reporter and Telegraph: The plan is to construct about 300 apartments, single family houses, row houses, duplexes and office space with about 1/3 dedicated to “affordable housing.” Interesting to note, after the construction phase, Crosland will [...]
We’ve talked about this before, but the RRHA has released more details on the plan — including the developer. From the RTD: The housing authority has selected Crosland LLC of Charlotte, N.C., as the master developer for the planned revitalization of the Dove Street area generally bounded by the Richmond-Henrico Greenway to the south and [...]
The March issue of the Richmond Redevelopment Housing Authority’s Community Connection is loaded with details on the ongoing initiative to revitalize the Dove Court and Gilpin Court communities. The lead article focused on the public hearings held last winter: Hundreds of residents and community members participated in the public meetings lending valuable insight into the [...]
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has scheduled two public forums to discuss design plans for its Gilpin Court and Dove Street communities. From 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, officials will unveil plans for an 8- to 10-year project to transform Gilpin Court. The meeting will take place in the Calhoun [...]
The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has a dedicated web page focused on their plans to replace the Dove Court and Gilpin Court housing projects. Dove Court’s 60 units were recently tore down, and plans are underway for a new development. RRHA has two public meetings scheduled to discuss both projects. On Tuesday, December 9, [...]
During last night’s mayoral debate at the University of Richmond, candidate Robert Grey reportedly called on the city to pay attention to the details in the redevelopment efforts at Dove Court and Gilpin Court: [Robert] Grey said the city should redevelop the Dove Court and Carrington Gardens communities with careful attention to detail, in part [...]
