Poor Fairmount Avenue can’t catch a break: name a Richmond slumlord and dollars to donuts they own a vacant house on the once grand street. Richmond Slumlord Watch today outs Linilton Realty, owner of vacant properties on Fairmount Avenue and Whitcomb Street.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 [...]
nbc12 has details on traffic circles proposed for the intersections at 25th Street & Nine Mile and 23rd Street & Fairfield Avenue.
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.
The City of Richmond and Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) are presenting FREE Foreclosure Prevention Clinics where individuals can meet with certified housing counselors to find out what their options are for avoiding foreclosure.
Edward Antaion Baker faces 30 years on a drug conviction after being arrested last February “near a convenience store at Fairmount Avenue and Mosby Street”: The defendant, Edward Antaion Baker, 28, was arrested Feb. 25 near a convenience store at Fairmount Avenue and Mosby Street in the city’s East End. In testimony yesterday, a police [...]
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…
The vacant house at 2008 Fairmount Avenue dramatically burned at the end of 2007. From the ash, the renovation is nearing completion and Better Housing Coalition is looking for a buyer.
A hit&run today at Fairmount & 23rd Street put one of the cars up into a porch. Witnesses to the accident report a Kia with 2 girls in it may have been seen leaving the scene.
While recent inspections by the Department of Health have not turned up any egregious problems, code violations have led to the center building at the Sandra’s Southern Style Soul Food Take Out being condemned. The building had been previously used for food storage. Additional code violations were reportedly filed for trash accumulation on the property [...]
Word from the code enforcement folks is that the corner store at 24th and Fairmount, vacant since burning almost 18 months ago, will likely have a demolition permit in place by the end of the month.
