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Not to be bias but I think the south's next raising star is either going to be Richmond or Norfolk Virginia.

Y'all leave me alone, I just learned the news. I'm not sitting at the TV or on the net 24/7.

MeadWestvaco annoced that they are building their site here in Richmond along the James River downtown.

MeadWestvaco picked RICHMOND!!!!

This is good enough. Plus newer buildings have less story but are higher then the older buildings with the same amount.

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What landfill at the end of the valley, I see a golf course, but no landfill.

I wish we could have casinos in Richmond.

Your right. To me the repulicans between 80% and 95% have Fox news. No one can deny that. MSNBC is kind of democratic, but the try as hard as they can to stay neutral. Fox doesn't try as hard to see every point of view. CNN on the other hand is conservetive and kind of swings from Dem to Rep. The CBS is democratic, NBC is neutral, and ABC is republican, but all to try to stay a little bit neutral. I'm a democrate and that's how I see it. The only thing I agree with Bush about is immigration.

We shouldn't worry about the weight as long as it's going to be over 20 stories tall. We should be thankful it's a go!

This is great news, on top of that Richmond's housing market is expected to look better by the spring.

I think,,, you made that up, It could be true.

Nice to meet you too man. Basque! that's odd, basque is spoken in NW Spain and SW France. They must be related to Gypcies. What I think about blaming Doug is (you can do in in some cases but not everything, It's a natral disaster for pete's sake, they people in the Battery Park area know that that park floods almost everytime that it rain hard or for a long time.

Maybe, to play along. The towers may be using more then one hotel or if the westin in Henrico doesn't go throw it may just move there, maybe?

I now this projects in the west end but still looks like the map has it in Richmond! -Why can't the centinnial towers get these hotels? -Because it still doesn't look fully like the plan will go throw and no other hotel has tried to. My bad western Henrico county, why don't they put up a map of henrico.

Man, the city is changing and anything major for development (ALWAYS) has to go up before the government office of any place. There is no real good and watchful way to make this a smoother process. The city is poor but, the city is still in the center of the region, so the city still has a go chance. Plus don't forget, downtown has alot of old building that would cost money to bring down, so it's cheaper to do it in the county were nothing a first was at. So most of the time, it not the city is poor, it's the jibs coming to the city are cheap.

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Well if richmonds the center everything around it it feeds of to keep it's image.

That has ben happening dude, Richmond's is truely turn around it just takes time. And this people are starting to get sick og living in the suburbs and are moving to the city or out into the country. Richmond will raise again. But Richmond needs to find a way in now to feed off of Short Pump some how.

That's right, Plus Short Pump help Richmond if it become over grown and too high priced!

That would be nice. I glad the water could NEVER run from battery park to Shockoe bottom, a School, gulf coarse and many blocks of apartments are in the way plus on the other side the grond level goes up like a hill. But having battery park as a lake would make the Northside look alot better!

In news for petersburg from the Richmond times-dispatch. Form Story "The art, buildings reel'em in". Musicians in Petersburg along Kimberly ann's and the Chesterfield hotel entertain visitors along Sycamore Street. This happened after an art show of 20 exhibits for the 3rd anniversary of Friday for the arts.

OK, Here is some real estate news from the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Home sales in the Richmond Metro area have plumitted 7% campared to this time last year, but of course this was expected because of the cooling housing market across America. And virginia had the 4th largest dip in housing sales in the nation, mostly do to the dip in housing sales in the NOVA area.

When will they break ground on the towers in 2007?

As we all know, Richmond's economy has been growing in the past 3 years. This forum is to update and show Richmond's economic boom and to talk about more economic growth or challages that will, may, or may not come to Richmond or the Richmond Metro. This forum is also to talk about real estate booms and pops in the economy of Richmond. And also to talk about and update about businesses bringing money and jobs to the region, and helping Richmond become a better place. One of the businesses I'm looking at is Philip Morris and Meadwestvaco, what about you?