Richmond bottomed out in 1994: one city councilman went off to rehab for his heroin problem and another was in hot water for not paying utilities and renting out condemned property, enrollment at VCU dropped, the city recorded the nation’s 19th largest population decline since 1980, Richmond made the wrong end of Money Magazine’s Best [...]
No one was killed in Richmond in June 2010. Going back to at least 1980, Richmond has only had three months without any homicides. Each of these quiet months has come in the last 8 months, and 2 of them have come in 2010.
Venable and 25th Street (proposed) Tonight’s final presentation of the East End Transformation Charrette shared a vision of what could be for the 25th Street and Nine Mile Road corridors. Video & more…
The folks at Duany Plater-Zyberk shared some of their process and what they’ve been hearing tonight as the East End Transformation process moved to the Family Resource Center on Jefferson Avenue for the Studio Open House.
Three big projects under way along 21st Street and Broad Street will bring almost 500 apartments and more than 13,000 square feet of retail space to the area where Church Hill and Shockoe meet.
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 [...]
While there has been a tremendous amount of ongoing renewal, the greater Church Hill area still has some of the most blighted houses still standing in Richmond. From reader suggestions and addresses sent in directly, we present to you CHPN’s Most Blighted House in Church Hill 2010…
The Other Side of the Slum Story from the Dec.21, 1968 issue of The Richmond Afro-American is a fascinating look back at an earlier East End slumlord, John Wesley Pearsall.
In tandem with our Top 10 stories of 2009, here are some of the interesting photos from 2009 on CHPN.
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?
The Hill Directories are a series of directories for a variety of cities with the residents listed by address and by last name (often with their employment). You can look up who lived in your house back in the day and then cross-refence to see their occupation.
The Library of Virginia has a digitized collection of just over 100 photos from around the Church Hill area in 1936/1937 by Madge Goodrich. (ABOVE: 316 North 24th Street)
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.
