Parking deck in the works for 18th and Venable
The city’s Land Use Administration Logbook (PDF) shows a Plan of Development entered on 12/22/2010 to construct a parking deck at 500 North 18th Street.
The city’s Land Use Administration Logbook (PDF) shows a Plan of Development entered on 12/22/2010 to construct a parking deck at 500 North 18th Street.
If you build it, they will come???
Boooooo..The last thing any city needs is more parking decks. What about community grocer, park, education center, garden, affordable housing, or anything that actually benefits the citizens and NOT VCU/City Gov’t's corporate interest.
VCU benefits citizens very much. I cant imagine Richmond without all the great things VCU does.
Anonymous… when was the last time you drove by this area? A parking deck is what will be needed. Between all the residences in the great McDonalds condo’s and the employees and students of MCV.
I’m just curious who would park there. Once you park you car…where are you going to walk to? Unless it is for VCU and they plan to run a bus line. And I agree with Joe (#3), VCU hasn’t done everything right over the years, but they sure have helped the city in a lot of ways.
if you have ever driven past 17th/18th and Broad in the morning between the hours of 7 & 9am, or in the evening between the hours of 4 & 6pm, you probably know this is a good idea. If you have read the news recently, you know that VCU is surrendering a large surface lot in the bottom because of the slave burial site.
if they are going to add/reconfigure parking, i’m happy to see that they are planning to go UP rather than OUT.
there must be 500 new apartments coming on line within two blocks of this garage. it is needed — parking will be tight around here very soon.
One day, after we stand around slack-jawed at the collapse of automobile culture, somebody will have a nice career repurposing parking decks. These vast, sturdy concrete buildings will be great for community gardens on the top floor.
Like ashtrays, I look forward to the day when their original function can only be guessed at and people will marvel we ever lived in an age where we needed so much storage for the machines that once transported us around.
Send some VCU our way. I’m waiting for the day VCU extends across the Leigh Street viaduct and into the former-Mosby Court. In addition to addressing the need for parking, I welcome the attention to this slice of urban wasteland.
I’ve always felt that the Jefferson Townhouses would be great student housing, or that new housing would replace Mosby Court. Imagine a light rail shuttle across the bridge with a loop around campus and back to our end of the world.
Will it have an ABC-Off license?
@georut yes! and it will serve burgers and pizza. haha!
It will really help when the higher speed trains get here and we get more commuters and home prices spike.
#13 don’t hold your breath…