Fairmount archive
March 10, 2010
700 MCP
A few doors down from the stylistically-similar “Dr.Young house”.
March 4, 2010
ACORN option properties in Oakwood, Fairmount, and Union Hill
The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods has 3 houses and a vacant lot in the area listed for sale as Optioned Properties.
January 24, 2010
Fairmount says NO to new cornerstore
Thirty or so residents turned out yesterday to the East End Library for a public meeting on the future of the storefront at 22nd Street and Fairmount Avenue. The owner is considering allowing a new cornerstore to open at the location; the community is adamantly opposed to this.
January 11, 2010
What would be good in this storefront?
There will be a community meeting on Saturday, January 23 at noon at the East End Library to discuss the use of the storefront at the corner of 22nd Street and Fairmount Avenue.
January 8, 2010
Two very affordable houses
Two worn but super-affordable houses for sale: 914 North 21st Street at $19,900 and 1203 North 24th Street at $29,900.
January 7, 2010
New Visions meets Saturday
The New Visions Civic League will hold their first meeting of the year this Saturday at 10AM at the East End Library. Residents, property owners, and friends of the area bound by Carrington Street, Mosby Street, Fairmount Avenue, and 25th Street are invited and encouraged to attend!
December 28, 2009
Prostitution stings nets 28 arrests citywide
RPD conducted several citywide prostitution stings on December 3, 4, 9, and 10 in which twenty-one ladies of the evening and afternoon were picked up (including 3 in our little area north of Fairmount Avenue).
December 8, 2009
Vacant properties deter Richmond redevelopment
Taking the Richmond Vacant Property Registry as a starting point, student journalist Maureen Link has pulled together a look at the impact of the high rate of vacant properties in the area:
“It’s not the urban issues that keep people away so much as the fabric is really destroyed in a lot of ways,” [he says]. “Sure people have the right to own property as a profit making venture but this is a community where people live. We’d have more kids in schools, more people buying stuff from our stores, restaurants…everything it would be better in every way if not for all these vacant properties.”
December 5, 2009
Churches own many vacants along Fairmount Avenue
Stacey Martin manages a tremendous amount of vacant property in the area and gets tagged a slumlord. Oliver Lawrence is a convicted slumlord currently serving time in one of his dilapidated houses on 19th Street. What do you call a church that owns a block’s worth of vacants?
November 27, 2009
Fairmount Apparently Has a Bright Future Before It
From the April 06, 1902, issue of The Times (PDF), a Richmond daily:
Of the various suburban attractions about Richmond, Fairmount, on the easternmost end of the city, in a northerly direction, is perhaps the largest and the most flourishing. Formerly a part of Henrico county and later a special district controlled by a Board of Commissioners, it is more recently an incorporated town, with a Mayor and Council.
November 27, 2009
East End 1962
Detail from a 1962 map of Richmond published by Esso. Drawn before the construction of I-64, the map also ncludes the pre-MLK Bridge street grid west of Mosby Street and the original streets of Fulton.
November 21, 2009
In which a message is delivered to Dr.Young
November 17, 2009
The vacant house queen of Fairmount
Three companies, all managed by Stacy Martin of Hermitage Realty, own 15 vacant houses within 4 blocks of my house (including the 2 pictured above). These companies collectively have over 90 houses on the the city’s Vacant Property Registry, the vast majority of which are in the East End.
November 12, 2009
Renovations in Fairmount, Union Hill recognized
The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods lauded several local renovations Thursday night during their Golden Hammer Awards Ceremony at Plaza Bowl. While this year’s nominees came from 21 neighborhoods across the city, both the Winner and First Runner Up in Best Residential Renovation went to area houses, the Better Housing Coalition’s stunning work at 2008 Fairmount Avenue in Fairmount and Bill Conkle’s amazing renovation at 801 North 24th Street in Union Hill.
October 17, 2009
Two more traffic circles proposed for the area
nbc12 has details on traffic circles proposed for the intersections at 25th Street & Nine Mile and 23rd Street & Fairfield Avenue.
October 14, 2009
Court date set for recent prostitution arrests
There have been a spate of prostitution arrests in the Fairmount area recently. Word from Sector 113’s Lt.Harrison is that the court date for those arrested will be November 20, 2009 at 9:30AM.
