Addressing the Changes in Church Hill – A Community Dialogue Facilitated by Hope in the Cities will be held Tuesday, September 23, from 5-7:30 PM at the East District Center (701 North 25th Street).
Church Hill is the oldest neighborhood in Richmond and it is undergoing a dramatic transformation. While large areas of the neighborhood remain mired in poverty, other parts of the neighborhood are the homes of upscale restaurants and hipster businesses.
In this discussion, we want to invite people with deep knowledge of Church Hill, but who come from a variety of perspectives—political representatives and community organizers, residents whose lives are being impacted by the changes, and business owners both old and new, past and present.
Among the panelists will be Evrim Dogu, owner of Sub Rosa bakery, Sally Schwitters, Executive Director of Tricycle Gardens, and Del. Delores McQuinn, former city councilwoman for Church Hill, as well as longtime Church Hill-based attorney John L. Taylor III.
Sponsored by the University of Richmond. If you have any questions, contact Laura Browder at 289-8312 or lbrowde2@richmond.edu and Patricia Herrera at 287-6352 pherrera@richmond.edu.
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Cat Anthony liked this on Facebook.
Are they referring to the whole of East End minus Fulton that people always consider Church Hill or just Church Hill, Union Hill, and that collection of neighborhoods that they’ve started to call Church Hill North… which keeps shifting boundaries?
Brian Marsh liked this on Facebook.
The undefined and shifting boundaries or general reference to Church HIll from 64 to the river and from the Bottom to Fulton Hill – is one of the major issues all in itself. Within that very broad geographical area are so many divergent issues, needs, attitudes problems and points of view that it is sometimes impossible to get agreement or perspective on what can/needs to be addressed, by whom, when and how.
To have community change – we need to focus on targets of opportunity that specifically address the W, W, W, W, H, W and $$. Without such it is just another meeting with the coats and skirts – who then fade away after the fact to work on problems or issues – that have a starting point and some possible end-success. Trying to disuss and address problems in the broad spectrum of Church HIll and not by each neighborhood – is like dancing on quicksand …
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