Fairmount‘s ongoing problems with prostitution and drugs makes the news. So everybody knows that this is going on, now what? More signs? … Another later story also on nbc12 brings to light a spate of robberies last night in Brauers at Brauers Lane and Rogers Street and nearby on North 23rd Street. UPDATE: Arrests made [...]
The driver of a Dominion Virginia Power truck discovered a man who had been shot to death in the driver’s seat of a car on the 300 block of 25th Street very early this morning. [via]
A reader asks: “What are those magnolia- purple and gold flags? I see them everywhere. What is the story? They seem especially numerous in Fairmount?”
Residents of the south end of Fairmount are invited to a Community Meeting hosted by New Visions Civic League on Saturday Feb.2, at 10AM at Solomon Temple “ยจ(1118 N.20th Street). Contact Mary W. Thompson at (804)648-7915 or mwthompson111@aol.com for more info. Bring your ideas, questions, and suggestions about what you’d like to see in your [...]
ACORN‘s 5th Annual Susan Carter Williams Memorial Seminar, Researching the History of Your House, this morning at the Library of Virginia included the presentations Architectural Eras, Styles and House Types by Kim Chen , Your Historic Property: Detective Work at the Library of Virginia by Vince Brooks, Resources available at your Main Public Library by [...]
The 2008 real estate assessments are now available online. A spot check around the neighborhood shows general a small increase, with many property values remaining flat from last year. Previous years: 2007 | 2006 | 2005
Sidewalks are being put in along Short Q Street, some 115 years after the streets were initially laid out.
Seven children and an adult were injured in a collision between a school bus and a car this morning @ 22nd and T Streets. [via]
“This sign is in an area designated as a Prostitution Free Zone. [...] It shall be unlawful for any person who has been restricted by court order to thereafter enter or be upon property designated a Prostitution Free Zone.”
The Commission of Architectural Review meeting began on time with about 25 people in attendence. Except for the Oakwood Heights condo proposal, the remainder of the 11 items on the agenda, if not trivial, seemed at least routine: removal of vinyl siding, replacement of exterior doors, construction of an addition, the painting of a facade. [...]
A meeting was held tonight at the American Tobacco building about the proposed development at Cedar and Broad Streets. What is now surface parking wrapping around the McDonald’s could become 160+ apartments and a 5,000 square foot retail space.
ACORN, in partnership with the Library of Virginia, will present Uncovering the History of Your House, a Seminar in Researching the History of Homes on Saturday January 26th, from 9AM to 12:30PM at the Library of Virginia (800 E. Broad Street).
Two things on this MLK Holiday: Que Pasa should be opening (@M and 25th Streets), and there is a meeting about the proposed development at Cedar and Broad (7PM @ American Tobacco Center community room).
Pamela Kinney has posted an excerpt from the chapter Train Under the Hill from her recent book of ghost tales Haunted Richmond.
Take a break from winter and check out the Tricycle Gardens promotional video.
