In addition to the state-wide races, on November 3rd voters in the East End will be electing a new city council representative for the 7th District and selecting a House of Delegates representative for either the 70th or the 71st districts. Also on the ballot will be uncontested races for Commonwealth’s Attorney, Sherif, and Treasurer.
A list of active civic organizations in the East End, towards fostering better communication and building more cohesive civic representation across the area.
The Fairmount Neighborhood began as a real estate development project in the fall of 1890, one of several contemporary efforts to create new suburban towns just outside the Richmond city limits in Henrico County.
RRHA’s public housing communities provide housing for more than 10,000 people in 11 family public housing developments and eight elderly housing buildings throughout the city.
Charles M. Robinson was “a local architect who had a brilliant career”[1] designing universities, public schools, churches, homes, and commercial spaces in Richmond and around the state. His prodigious design work around the city includes locally the Fairmount Presbyterian Church (above) in 1911, Nathaniel Bacon School in 1915, the American National Bank in 1922, East [...]
Over the past 12 years, Better Housing Coalition has built or renovated close to 90 houses in the area. While the great majority of the activity has been in the Church Hill Central area of the city’s Neighborhoods in Bloom program, they are also looking at a large-scale redevelopment at the former Beckstoffers on 28th [...]
