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5 hours ago, Brent114 said:
I’d hate to think that we have to wait for CoStar to be finished before construction starts on the apartment building. I’d also be thrilled if this is veneer for the apartment building (the section where the window glass covers entire floors). Waiting 18 months for the apartment to start would be miserable. The condo/office development already has some steel erected. It will wrap up 14 months before CoStar.
Why would they need to sit there throughout construction? Would these not simply be used to display the design options and then be removed once determined?
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On 2/3/2023 at 8:00 PM, plain said:
The bridge doesn't even need to be that high because it's north of the Port (and turning basin), though there are bluffs in the area. I don't see it being super expensive to pull off.
Regardless of the position of the port, I suspect any bridge over navigable water needs to be high enough to allow navigation. Ships and barges do occasionally come up to Sugar Pad.
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On 2/4/2023 at 12:03 PM, plain said:That's good to hear. And though they're trying to block Richmond from getting another bid at it, if the Petersburg casino ends up being the only one in the region then I still wouldn't be upset. Yes Richmond could use those jobs (especially those on the Southside), but Petersburg DEFINITELY need those jobs and revenue.
Given the population differences, I am sure most those jobs will be filled by Richmond and Chesterfield residents regardless. That could lead to improved transit to Petersburg. The Petersburg product looks leagues ahead of Richmond's so as much as I would love the money in Richmond, I am supportive of Petersburg on this one.
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23 minutes ago, 123fakestreet said:
Here's what a 1000 room hotel looks like: https://austin.culturemap.com/news/real-estate/10-26-14-fairmont-austin-downtown-luxury-hotel-secures-financing-construction-ground-breaking-date/
That said this is Richmond. They want 500-1000, we'll end up with 550, if we get anything at all. That said it will still be a nice addition to downtown. The Hilton only has 250 rooms, the Marriot has 400 rooms, so bigger than that.
This is a better comparison as the Venetian has a massive footprint.
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18 minutes ago, I miss RVA said:
I'll have to do some digging - but where did I read recently that the Richmond 300 plan actually calls for a bridge connection to the East End - only farther south and not at Maury Street. I can't recall the exact location - (I'll have to research it later when I have a chance) - but the down-river portion would take all of that issue you mention out of play altogether, which is why, I'm sure, the planners opted to push such a bridge connection farther south.
I do not recall that at all, just us creating our own proposed solutions.
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2 hours ago, wrldcoupe4 said:
Here are the facade mock ups. They are substantial. The only project in town it’s for is likely costar and seems to match up with the facade in the renderings. They are angled away from the street so hard to get a good image.
That appears to be on Thalhimers' property and I am unaware of them having any involvement with CoStar's construction. They are part of the Diamond District project though, correct? Also perhaps for the lower floor of the mixed use building on Ellen (about where that port-a-potty is located)?
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2 hours ago, whw53 said:
Now i wish someone would grab that Exxon lot.
Somehow that convenience store has now become a 7-11 so that may not happen for some time. I have never seen one in that format.
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4 hours ago, whw53 said:
Isn't this were we saw a rendering concept at one point? Maybe from a loopnet flyer or something?
I could not find that but here is some nice info on the area from LoopNet:
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/Maury-Street-Marx-Street-Portfolio/20896247/
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20 hours ago, skinsfan said:
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/10019-Chamberlayne-Rd-Mechanicsville-VA/23446615/
I can definitely see Wegmans building their new store here in this upcoming development, especially with Wegmans building their local distribution center in Hanover.
Wow, I spent NYE 2015 in that house and friends were booted out later that year for development. I did not realize that the development still has not occurred, never-mind that the house is still standing.
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1 hour ago, Brent114 said:
I really like that building. IMO is the most “real city” building we have. The scale is on another level for Richmond. I’m a fan of brutalism so the aesthetics never bothered me.
There will be a huge hole when it’s gone and that end of the downtown skyline will shrink visually (will shrink beyond the single building being gone, it will make everything around it seem smaller too). Bookend buildings have a way of making the stuff between them look beefier and grounded. The Charlotte skyline, for example, immediately looked so much bigger and balance when the Duke Energy tower was built. It looked much smaller when everything appeared to be centered around BOA. It’s hard to articulate but visually the smaller buildings out from BOA just sorta disappeared. Building the Duke building at what was at the time the edge of downtown really made everything between the two landmarks pop.
11 minutes ago, Hike said:I like the brutalist style too and I’m also concerned about losing this bookend high rise and the drop off in height as you describe. In a perfect world, the right developer would see the potential and convert it to apartments, but my gut tells me it will be torn down. To keep it, whoever ends up with it, they would have to see the value in it for reasons beyond just turning land into apartments. If they are that type, see the value, and consider all the existing steel, concrete cladding, concrete floor plates, (which are very expensive to recreate) they could all be saved and reused and have the potential to become something else. The easier thing to do is to tear it down and drop in the prefab 500 apartment box with YinYang rectangles, add parking and sell it by saying, “look, the train, the access” and done, rent please.
I may not be the biggest fan of the tower as it looks now, but I agree with all of this. For any renovation, the innards would have to be gutted regardless. With some cladding and improved windows, perhaps even rework the non-structurally significant corners, this could be an absolute beauty containing the tallest residential units in the state (VA Beach Westin is only architecturally taller).
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52 minutes ago, Shakman said:
I know that development. It's part of a multi-building highrise development in Arlington; next to Amazon's HQ2. There are plenty of buildings in Richmond taller than that. We need this type of density with grocery stores on the ground level here in Richmond.
Apparently, we currently have 16 buildings taller than The Bartlett (264ft). Only one is residential, the CNB, and has the same number of floors but considerably less units. The Southern States building should squeak ahead of The Bartlett as well.
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5 hours ago, eandslee said:
Oh, don’t forget the new website:
So glad to see this project progressing despite the delay.
Also, this isn’t exactly a part of Foundry Park/CoStar…what do you all think about starting a new thread for this amphitheater at Tredegar?
I am not sure it warrants its own thread, which can get cumbersome, but perhaps I could relocate into Parks & Rec?
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On 1/27/2023 at 7:54 PM, eandslee said:
Saturday, 22 April 2023
Tentatively added to my calendar
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10 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
@eandslee& @Icetera-- funding for the Honors building (12 stories) was slated to be included in the appropriation for the 2024-26 biennium, and that appropriation will likely come up in this year's G.A. session.
Ice - the Bookbinder building - isn't that on Broad Street? Or am I thinking of something else? OR - are you referring to what was originally Metropolitan Hospital? Like you said - the Honors dorm is to be built on the north side of Grace - more or less across the alley from the new Tech building/data center. There's another tower slated to be built across Grace from the Honors dorm?
Agreed - Grace Street is starting to really come together as a potentially epic urban corridor street. If we get the height, bulk and density of construction east of Parc View (in the Foushee and Grace area) -- the street will get even beefier. I can't wait for more height and density to come to this section of Monroe Ward in the coming years.
I believe he means the one-story BookHolders building at Grace and Laurel (not to be confused with Virginia Book Company in the Chesterfield at Franklin and Shafer St). Broad Street is The Book Bindery, not to be confused with the Old Original Bookbinder's restaurant in Tobacco Row (which I only now have learned are unrelated), phew!
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1 hour ago, I miss RVA said:
SWEET!!
And fencing is all the way up at the Silos now? Any demo equipment on-site yet?
I keep forgetting to post/confirm, but from across the river it looks like a large crane has been active at the silos as of last week.
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37 minutes ago, Brent114 said:
They’re building the tunneL from the new GA to the Capitol now (the grounds are a mess). I’m not sure why they cannot walk across the lawn like they have for the last 200 years.
There is no reason why Bank Street was ever closed. I’m convinced it’s a land grab and that it will never reopen. It’s not like they reopen the street (it probably wouldn’t even take a full day to move da balls and that guard house) when the General Assembly isn’t in session. They’ll now use the pending demolition and constriction as a reason to leave it closed…so another 4-6 years.
How long has it been closed now? 4-5 years? Can you tell that it really sticks in my craw?
This is what I am afraid of and it is highly irritating, especially as someone who driver regularly down Franklin to get East.
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3 hours ago, eandslee said:
Have any more details on this supposed VCU tower? I want to learn more!
12-story housing tower in the VCU masterplan that was set for 2026 (roughly behind the datacenter under construction). This came out pre-pandemic, if I recall, and we have not heard much for updates in quite some time.
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13 hours ago, skycity said:
Meanwhile, people from NoVA seem to be moving to Richmond: https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2023/01/16/northern-virginia-nova-richmond
@skycityI love how in the process of force spamming your QAnon-esque rhetoric, you accidently circled back to exactly the article that started this conversation. In the future, please refrain from using this forum to peddle books (especially by "Equity Investment Executives" trying to play virologist).
On 1/18/2023 at 7:23 AM, wrldcoupe4 said:Interesting article about increasing migration from NOVA to Richmond. It doesn’t speak to migration Richmond to NOVA which would be a helpful datapoint.
https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2023/01/16/northern-virginia-nova-richmond#newsletter
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17 hours ago, eandslee said:
I’m interested to see if they will just implode the silos. Not sure they can do it any other way. Now THAT will be something to capture on video (a big deal like the old Dominion tower)!
I think the gas left by the grain may make that too dangerous. The odor is really strong below the silos themselves (so I have heard
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https://www.rachelcontracting.com/projects/bunge-grain-elevator-demolition
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While talking about Franklin building, I really would love to hear some updates on the 11-story tower at 1801 E. Main St. Not a peep since seeing core sampling a year or so ago. The mass on the corner would really change the dynamic of 18th and Main.
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47 minutes ago, whw53 said:
@rjp212 thanks for the link - it looks like that was mentioned in relation to the Overnite property. they posted the entire video as part of that IG post. Around 15 minutes a TRP rep and Markam planning begin talking about development concepts and show some layout concepts.
Markam will rezone to TOD-1...red block is existing Overnite facility....Two buildings west of that will be in 7-12 story range...later pahse would tear down Overnite office and position that as a grocery spot ...
Looks like they would just go around the holdout house.
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7 hours ago, eandslee said:
Love this idea! Thanks for putting this together and for maintaining it. A suggestion would be to put the name of the project either above or below the photo when added to this thread. That would be helpful. Maybe we can even resurrect our old crane map and add it here as well (remember that?)!
I finally dug that back up from another computer, updated, and added it to @I miss RVA's post.
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1 hour ago, I miss RVA said:
Okay folks - more from the Bakery Lofts site. Again, HUGE thanks to @Child2021who went over and snapped this photo of the progress.
Wow! That was just a hole Sunday...
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21 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
I think the shortness of the equipment for the Bakery Lofts may be an optical illusion based on angle of photo, location of the photo relative to the position of the crane, etc. At distance, I'd be willing to bet the Bakery Lofts crawler and the Icon's crawler are the same size/height, since the buildings are slated to be the same size/height.
This is the angle I had before seeing it posted here already. It looks like a shorter boom to me. Looking back at The Lofts, it looks like they used a smaller darker-color crawler for the garage and then switched to the taller yellow one after the foundation was poured for the tower.
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Foundry Park - CoStar HQ
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I believe it has been 21 occupiable floors plus about 5 floors equivalent of "crown." for some time now, or at least that is what I have had documented. The "5 floors" may be excluding the levels built into the hillside on Tredegar, which is fairly common when stating floor counts (annoyingly). Shiplock Views (listed at 7, but has 2 more slope) and 2525 Main (listed 6 with 2 down slope) are examples of this in the past.