Archive for “Woodville”
New community garden planned for 28th Street
Sustainable East End Development – Church Hill (SEED-CH) is opening a new Community Garden at 28th & Tate Streets near Woodville ES: This garden is first of many we hope that will serve the local community which does not have access to fresh produce and healthy food. This garden will be free and serve as [...]
“one half mile in an easterly direction from the city of Richmond”
I had planned to post about this on the first but my computer was being reloaded after losing a hard drive. But I’m celebrating 140 years of the family owning this property! July 1, 1871.
Boom?
We’ve gotten reports from Church Hill to Woodville of 3 loud booms shortly after midnight. Anybody got any info?
Civic organizations in the East End
A list of active civic organizations in the East End, towards fostering better communication and building more cohesive civic representation across the area.
Demolition on Nine Mile
One of the last structures on the vacant block at 25th and Nine Mile fell today.
Richmond Planet archives are a window into the past
Thanks the new Shockoe Examiner for tipping us off to the online archive of the Richmond Planet. My first search for “Fairmount” turned up this page with a advert for new lots in Woodville (PDF). Pretty cool.
Get your very own vacant lot!
Motley’s will be auctioning for the city a group of 12 different properties (PDF), including undeveloped lots in Union Hill, Woodville, and Oakwood, on Wednesday, December 12th at 6:00PM.
Fire on 27th Street
An early morning kitchen fire broke out at 1615 North 27th Street. No injuries were reported.
a map of when houses were built
Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. View the map.
Neighborhood and city data
One of the take-aways from tonight’s 7th District Round Table (more on that later) is DataShare Metro Richmond, a great interface to US Census data on a city, regional, and neighborhood level.
Vacant Richmond and vacant next door
The folks at Pharrout and neighborhood resident Daniel (aka Farrell IT), building on an idea by Jon at River City Rapids, have put together Vacant Richmond, a new way to find out about and comment on the vacant housing around the neighborhood and the city.
Official Sector 113 and neighborhood YTD crime stats
Following last week’s Sector 111 stats, here are year-to-date crime stats Sector 113 and the individual neighborhoods — and they are looking good…
