Comments on: City restructures Economic and Community Development Departments

By: Mariane

Mariane — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:03:39 +0000

It’s supposed to be here http://www.richmondgov.com/departments/presssecretary/pressreleases.aspx
but as of Friday morning, it hasn’t been posted yet.

By: Sundagger

Sundagger — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:32:35 +0000

I think the key is that Peter Chapman would be given control of the federal grants program, and that means all the CDBG funding.

By: Bullwinkle

Bullwinkle — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:17:59 +0000

Doesn’t look like Flynn is even mentioned in this release.

By: PointCounterPoint

PointCounterPoint — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:15:14 +0000

Companies and development deals are scurrying from the city like a scalded dogs and looking at the counties for easier to complete deals. Tie that into a tight credit market and an impossible to navigate permitting process, and one ends up going to the least path of resistance. And, that path my friends, is not the City of Richmond.

It’s a year or two too late. The word has gotten out. Richmond is closed for business that doesn’t “fit the box”.

I expect property tax rates to cover the lost tax base will increase in 2010. (Tax factoid- residential doesn’t pay the freight as much as you think it does.)

By: Scott Burger

Scott Burger — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:33:50 +0000

http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/09/24/director-out-at-city’s-economic-development-agency/

http://floricane.typepad.com/buttermilk/2009/09/city-hall-shakeup.html

By: john_m

john_m — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:23:22 +0000

Kathy – I got it via email, I don’t know if it is posted anywhere on the city’s site or not.

By: ann

ann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:38:47 +0000

….talk about increased cross fertilization!

By: Kathy Wright

Kathy Wright — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:17:30 +0000

Where would one find this press release?And YIKES. What’s going on?