Archive for “Chimbo Mart”
Man shot at Chimbo Market
There are reports of a fatal shooting at the Chimbo Market at around 7PM tonight.
A brief history of the Chimborazo Mini-Mall
The Model Cities Program, an element of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty, was a federal urban aid program in the late 1960s and early 1970s intended “to make a blighted section [...] a pleasant place to live”. In Richmond, this manifested as the Church Hill Model Neighborhood Program, whose most lasting contribution [...]
Anybody seen a crumpled Blazer?
Katie writes in asking if anyone can help out with a hit&run from Friday afternoon: A red, two door, Blazer, with a young girl driver came out of the Chimbo Mart parking lot, and hit my car which was parked in the street. She continued to go up the curb and hit the bus stop [...]
Hit and run at the Chimbo Mart
Following up on an incident initially reported as a woman being run over by her boyfriend, wtvr has some details on the hit&run outside the Chimbo Mart yesterday: “We got a call that a female had been run over by a vehicle, units responded and found a woman down in a parking lot,” said Lt. [...]
Chimbo Mart robbed on Saturday
The RPD’s Noteworthy Incidents scantily reported a robbery at 515 Chimborazo Boulevard just before 3PM on Saturday as: “An employee reported an unknown male with a gun robbed the business.” Turns out that 515 is the Chimbo Mart and readers have added some detail: Allegedly the robber(s) only robbed the store. The customers were not [...]
Unsubstantiated
I’ve heard recently that 1) there have a been a rash of day-time burglaries around the 1000 block of 22nd Street (quickly in and out, through the back door), 2) that there have been recent rezoning requests for some of the light-industrial areas between 17th and 18th at Clay Street (to allow for commercial and [...]
