Archive for “vacant”
Vacant on Leigh Street
This house at 2902 East Leigh Street has made Historic Richmond Foundation’s Under the Radar, “a weekly update about properties and/or history in jeopardy”.
On Turning Around Vacant Properties in Greater Richmond
More than 100 people turned out to see City of Richmond officials and panelists from Baltimore speak on the state of vacant housing and neighborhood stabilization policy alternatives at a seminar on Friday morning at the Federal Reserve Bank on Byrd Street.
Lacey gets 10 years for shady real estate dealings
nbc12 is reporting that slumlord Donald Lacey “was sentenced in the Federal Courthouse in Richmond to 121 months on Count 1 and 120 months on Count 2. The sentenced will be served out concurrently.” Lacey’s companies bought vacant houses (almost 100 in the Church Hill area) and were to “renovated [the] fixer-uppers using investors’ money” [...]
Turning around vacant property in Greater Richmond
A forum on Turning Around Vacant Property in Greater Richmond will be presented by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Virginia Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) and the Partnership for Housing Affordability on Friday, August 20, 2010 from 9AM-noon at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (701 East Byrd Street):
Vacant properties deter Richmond redevelopment
Taking the Richmond Vacant Property Registry as a starting point, student journalist Maureen Link has pulled together a look at the impact of the high rate of vacant properties in the area: “It’s not the urban issues that keep people away so much as the fabric is really destroyed in a lot of ways,” [he [...]
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?
The vacant house queen of Fairmount
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.
Church Hill North leads the city in vacant houses and lots
The city’s recently released Neighborhood Statistics January-June 2009 (PDF) reports that Church Hill North leads the city in vacant houses, with 99 vacant structures and a vacancy rate of 11.72%. Church Hill North also has 32 of the city’s 106 vacant lots.
Again Lawrence gets off lightly
The RTD reports that Oliver Lawrence was again minimally fined at his court appearance today, despite $357,050 in fines and almost a year of jail hanging over his head.
Henry Otis Brown needs your help!
The Friends of Henry Otis Brown for Delegate need your help! They are (apparently) attempting to put one of their signs on every vacant storefront in the neighborhood, and need know if any have been missed…
Still vacant
The never completed rainbow-colored building at 25th and P Streets has sprouted a nice bottle&mattress collection out back if you’re looking for that kind of thing.
Scheming developer adds to stockpile of vacant housing
A complex real estate scheme has direct connections to vacant houses the area. Today’s RTD profiles the woe of Donald Lacey, whose companies were “to have bought and renovated fixer-uppers using investors’ money” but instead apparently burned through millions of dollars of investor money on vacation homes, boats, and expensive cars.
