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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?

  • December 5, 2009 at 9:23 am
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The building of a church on Fairmount Avenue

The Bethlehem Baptist Church at 1920 Fairmount Avenue was built in the late 1910s as the Fairmount United Methodist Church. The Methodists had been in the area since 1880 but moved out to Henrico at the end of the 1950s; their web site has a history with details of their early days in Fairmount…

  • August 16, 2009 at 10:45 am
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