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Church Hill Creative Homemakers Society
Sat Mar 20 4:00 pm
Lower floor of Leigh Street Church (517 North 25th Street)
Church Hill Irish Festival
Sat Mar 20 10:00 am
@25th and Broad Streets - The festival will begin Saturday at 10AM with a walking parade to include traditional Irish mu...
Libby Hill Park Mulch Day
Sat Mar 20 9:00 am
Friends of Libby Hill Park and Church Hill Planters invite everyone to help spread mulch! Come for an hour or all mornin...
Anniversary Reenactment
Sun Mar 21 1:00 pm
Join us for the 235th anniversary of reenactment of the Second Virginia Convention of March 1775. In the presence of Was...
Church Hill Irish Festival
Sun Mar 21 10:00 am
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City Council Formal Meeting
Mon Mar 22 6:00 pm
Every 2nd and 4th Mon - Responsible for deciding official Council action, which includes discussing, adopting, rejecting...
Open Mic @ Poe's
Tue Mar 23 8:15 pm
Weekly Open Mic every Tuesday at Poe's Pub, hosted by Jim Daab. Sign up at 8:15, music at 9PM
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Tue Mar 23 10:00 am
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Beginner's Yoga
Wed Mar 24 7:00 pm
@ Neighborhood Resource Center - 1519 Williamsburg Road - Relax, renew and do something great for the community! All pro...
Fairfield Court Tenants Council
Wed Mar 24 5:00 pm
Every 4th Wed at 2506 Phaup Street
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Wed Mar 24 11:00 am
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BEAUTIFUL 2-story, 2 1/2 bed, 2 1/2 bath, landscaped yard and shed at $1480/month. L/r, d/r, large family room. Washer, dryer, dishwasher and security system. New high efficiency heat pump and storm windows. MCV faculty member’s former home. 644-5311
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Missing Assistant Manager from The Market@Tobacco Row John Jones Age 48 Ht 5'9 Wt 150-165 lbs Last seen on Wed, March 10, 2010 Around 12:00 midnight, Wearing Black Pants, A White Dress Shirt and a Tan Hat.Please Call The Police at (804)646-5400
2 dogs found - corner of 32nd & Broad on Thursday, March 11, around 4 pm. One small and black - recently groomed, one medium size and dirty white w/ curly hair. To claim, call 222-2855.
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April 24, 2007

Vacant Richmond and vacant next door

The folks at Pharrout and neighborhood resident Daniel (aka Farrell IT), building on an idea by Jon at River City Rapids, have put together Vacant Richmond, a new way to find out about and comment on the vacant housing around the neighborhood and the city.

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You can search by address and by neighborhood (Church Hill, Church Hill North, Union Hill, Fairmount, Woodville, Peter Paul, Brauers, Oakwood, Creighton), and you can also see other properties owned by the same person (for example).

Posted by john_m at 10:44PM under Brauers, Church Hill, Church Hill North, Creighton, Fairmount, Oakwood-Chimborazo, Peter Paul, RVANews-news, Union Hill, Woodville, government, real estate, redevelopment | Tags:

16 Responses to “Vacant Richmond and vacant next door”

  1. posted by ann at April 25, 2007 6:58 am [#]:

    What a great idea. The count per listed neighborhood and the sight of all those little ‘pins’ really get the point home in a big way.

  2. posted by Celeste at April 25, 2007 10:42 am [#]:

    Great idea but I spotted some errors. Just one example is 2715 East Grace St. It is not a vacant lot, it is a house (actually correctly listed by the city as two family). Assessment is over $400K currently. Who put the list together – the city? Just curious. Otherwise, an excellent idea, agree with Ann that the ‘pins’ make a point – when they correctly point to a vacant lot.

  3. posted by Hills and Heights » Vacant Richmond - Richmond, Virginia at April 25, 2007 11:09 am [#]:

    [...] congrats to the Vacant Richmond folks! [via][and here] Posted at 10:46AM under [...]

  4. posted by observer at April 25, 2007 11:34 am [#]:

    Celeste, I think the vacancies listed are not vacant lots but vacant structures. Is 2715 East Grace occupied? If it is not occupied, then the site is accurate.

  5. posted by Daniel at April 25, 2007 11:35 am [#]:

    The data comes from the city’s list of vacant properties. We’ll be getting some information up on the disclaimer page about what gets a property listed. One of those things is getting your water turned off.

    There will be some mistakes and a little outdated information until the city updates the data again. But we hope that as a whole it will be useful, even if not 100% accurate.

  6. posted by Towlie at April 25, 2007 12:20 pm [#]:

    I tried to look for a vacant house to flop in on East broad and the map read it as west broad and sent me to the fan… So, it is a good idea, but needs some technical tweaking

  7. posted by Concerned at April 25, 2007 3:21 pm [#]:

    Good idea, but more effort should be placed on putting up correct information and updating yourself, rather then waiting on the city to update there database. Who knows how long that could take. Especially, if offered links to contact council and police to take action.

  8. posted by observer at April 25, 2007 5:06 pm [#]:

    These folks are volunteering their time and effort to make this site. It seems a little harsh to criticize them for a purely volunteer effort. Does anyone really expect two volunteers to canvas the entire city daily to check behind the City’s report?

  9. posted by Jennifer at April 25, 2007 9:59 pm [#]:

    Great job Vacant Richmond founders! What an awesome idea, thanks for your effort to make RVa and even better city!

  10. posted by ticked at April 25, 2007 11:30 pm [#]:

    if you complain about something then you should also help in fixing the problem. If you would like the correct information about vacant properties than i suggest going to each property and doing a visual inspection on each to make sure that each is vacant. Oh and by the way there are 9000 vacant properties on the list. So if you are not willing to do something about it then shut your pie hole.

  11. posted by Heather at April 26, 2007 9:44 am [#]:

    I have to agree with Ticked. I use my own personal time, energy and resources to do what I can in Shockoe Bottom and Church Hill yet people still complain about how, when, where, and the results of what I do. If you can do better, please feel free to.

  12. posted by Cadeho at April 26, 2007 9:05 pm [#]:

    AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!! No no no! The neighborhoods are all wrong! Man I can’t stand that the city does not even know its own neighborhoods and then the public is mislead. I have got to get my research underway. As a resident of Woodville I can tell you Woodville is not along Nine Mile Rd.

    They also have a house on my block that’s never been vacant on the list.

  13. posted by john_m at April 26, 2007 9:10 pm [#]:

    They also have a house on my block that’s never been vacant on the list.

    It is interesting that the site has become partially about verifying the city’s data now, as a number of questionable listings have ben found.

  14. posted by Mary Kate at May 2, 2007 3:23 pm [#]:

    I think this is a great idea. The City has certain criteria under which a property is considered vacant. I would love to list all the properties in my neighborhood that are vacant (haven’t been lived in for months/years), but are not, by the City’s definition, vacant. They are mostly little old ladies who went to nursing homes or people who moved to the Rivah and never come back.

  15. posted by lynne_mp at May 4, 2007 5:14 pm [#]:

    I thought it was a good site. Of course, anything of that magnitude is going to have errors, and volunteers do the best that they can. Let’s take it easy on them…This is time that they could spend working to pay bills, or being with their families or pets or gardens.

    What is valuable is the COMMENTING system and the links to take action with your local government, as well as property owners’ addresses. You can comment there on an error, and you can do something about it. Sadly, the owner for the property at 623 N. 31st listed his address at 623 N. 31st. When they demolished the property, they bust up my side porch, and there has been construction debris dumped on the sidewalk for months.

  16. posted by Church Hill People’s News » 100 Vacant Houses - Richmond, Virginia at May 24, 2009 3:34 pm [#]:

    [...] over 2 years ago, Vacant Richmond popped up and mapped all of the properties listed on the city’s Vacant Building Registry (PDF). The [...]


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