Cedar-Broad tonight at FOJP (UPDATED)
The next meeting of the Friends of Jefferson Park will be tonight, Monday, January 26th @ 7PM. On the agenda is a presentation on the Cedar-Broad development, which may or may not be slated for another historic parking lot. Contact Bill Conkle for more information Bill.Conkle@dcr.virginia.gov.
UPDATED: I’ve been forwarded the documents that accompanied the email from HUD about the Cedar-Broad parking lot. The Treatment Plan has the most info about the relevance of the block and the Site Plan is the 1895 Sanborn map superimposed over the parking lot.
could the meeting location be posted? who will do the presentation? why? who is bill conkle? why is dcr reviewing this project? if there are some hitches for the developer, what did dhr say?
meeting will be held at 2108 E Leigh Street.
The presentation is scheduled to be by Walter Parks, the architect for the project.
DCR is not reviewing the project, HUD is. Bill Conkle is the president of the FOJP.
FYI – when there is a link in a post, click on it. Sometimes there is more information at the other end.
The treatment plan has some interesting discussion about slavery in Richmond. I drive or walk past that parking lot almost everyday and never gave it a second thought. I hope that the archeologists and historians learn a lot about the history of this site and share it with the entire community. But I hope that the site’s history will not preclude its conversion from a desolate parking lot into new a residential development that brings us new neighbors and contibutes to a revitalizing downtown Richmond.
[...] Walter Parks gave an overview of changes to the Cedar-Broad development at this week’s Friends of Jefferson Park meeting. [...]