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Too bad this isn’t happening here in our location and worry about the competition moving forward. It mentions trying to rival the research triangle in NC, which, with the deep pockets of UVa, they can pull this off. UVa unveils plans for new $300 million biotech institute https://dailyprogress.com/news/uva/uva-unveils-plans-for-new-300-million-biotech-institute/article_d9e55482-9855-11ed-bcc4-fbeb330d581e.html https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/uva-unveils-plans-for-new-300-million-biotech-institute/article_ac6b8353-3650-52bf-93f1-fc6ab71818de.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest

not what I expected, sounds like they’re going to use existing buildings and let some remote work. Another thing I didn’t realize, the general assembly building was reduced by 2 levels. This was during the process of construction, thought it looked truncated or “squatty”. Happy Friday.

Getting ready to eat dinner so can’t add much context here but this changes a lot of the conversation for this area and project being discussed, eliminating the project and reshuffle of existing buildings only. https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/interactive-map-youngkin-making-new-plans-for-old-city-hall-downtown-state-offices/article_754f543c-98dc-11ed-b8ca-3bf6f0705f56.html

Self demo.

First look was, holy smokes Batman they’re coming down! Then changed to, after reading the article, this isn’t Manchester, not our project.

Got any of them there pecans?

Interestingly, I’ve never seen “baby” squirrels. I’ve seen smaller, younger looking, but never too small to where I’d say, look at that baby squirrel. I assume they grow fast, stay in the nest and/or get consumed by nest raiding hawks and crows before they can scamper down with mom. As for the neighbor, yeah, I’m sure you’re right, he’s still himself, what he learned from my stopping by was not to talk to neighbors, in fact, haven’t spoken, seen him since or heard anything about him from my other neighbor who ratted him out. He’s quietly plotting and reading up on how to get rid of neighbors.

We have sliding doors on the house at an outside corner of our back yard, so about 12’ off glass, and the one squirrel just sits there and when he sees us, runs up and begs. He’s also very quick, actually I think a she, because recently another squirrel followed it for days, but, anyway, it almost regularly tries to get in the house. You have to go out and use a broom to shoo it away or it’ll get close to getting in, which scares the heck out of me, as I’m sure that would be insane. When I talked to the guy about killing the animal’s with poison, he admitted it, but said it was for rodents, mice, bugs, etc. and not intended for the squirrels but I said you told others that you did it for the squirrels, which he denied. He also acted dumb about not knowing you couldn’t kill a pileated woodpecker. He said it was pecking his cedar house, which we all have. I told him to call for help, have pros take them away, like you mentioned, or move to an another location with less/no woods and into a brick home. I do think he’s sorry, I think my talk helped some, he’s a strange, lonely(?) single, older guy, kind of pitiful in my eyes, I feel I got thru to him on this, at least I hope I did.

What a great memory of your time spent there, forest hill is such a nice location. Of the trees you listed, we only have hickory in common, which we’ve taken some out unfortunately. They were over our driveway and we put up with them for years. We strategically parked our cars in different locations to try to avoid being hit by the nuts, but it got too bad, and we ran out of any location to park and got tired of not being able to park in our driveway. They ruined more than one car, dents, like hail damage, so we took 2 of them out and replaced them with maples. We still have hickories, just fewer and smaller in size. The squirrels love the hickory nuts, like you mentioned, we also hand out pecans. My Hanover friend has pecan trees and he gives me shoe boxes full of older ones and some we keep that are fresher. Every year there’s one squirrel that gets smart and knows we have them and taps on the door or just sits there and looks in, pretty cute. It’s unfortunate though because not all our neighbors are kind and feel there are too many squirrels and have killed, poisoned them. I’ve confronted him as he was bragging about killing them, he also killed a pileated woodpecker with a BB gun. They are protected and mate for life, we’ve had words. I have no proof other than neighbors telling me about it, his telling them he did it, so yeah, he hates the extra squirrels, which hang around due to bird feed and some pecans. We try to not over do it, also, other neighbors feed too, so we’re not alone, but it’s too bad there’s always one to ruin it. these are the pileated woodpecker, they’re big (up to 19” tall) and fun to watch. https://youtu.be/SNVGPmo1xuA

I hadn’t paid attention, but yeah, these are static it seems, though it says cameras, so not sure.

Nice, I think most pines grow relatively fast, which will have a faster impact. Our house, out here in the west burbs has pines, really love them and wish we had more, loblolly’s. Most neighbors around us have gotten rid of them or reduced the number, they fear they may fall, which I always feel bad when I see them being taken out. Also, really like hiking in pine sections of the woods, the sound is sweet (whispering pines) and the ground is soft for camping on the needles, probably can’t camp at the museum, but it may be tried.

I don’t see any Facebook, etc. updates with pictures yet but see this and looks to be a nice change to the entry. What size trees were installed? The renderings show mature trees, which will be a long time for that look, so would be good if large plantings, though cost a lot more, we’re used. https://smv.org/explore/green/visuals-green/

Not exactly a project webcam but the channel 8 weather camera shows the site for a peek every now and then as @I miss RVAmentioned. https://www.wric.com/weather/

Maybe Costar will have one themselves or still hopeful Whiting Turner could have one somewhere in the future, our Easter egg hunt.

This looks like the location where the project would be listed and what’s missing for all of these is a webcam link. https://www.whiting-turner.com/news/featured-projects-in-progress/

Comments on bizsense have mentioned that it doesn’t always workout for the hold outs, they wait too long, ask too much, etc. and get stuck.

That’s 3 of us then. I’ve also looked, almost every day recently and zip, nada. Come on Whiting Turner, though, when searching them in general, I don’t recall finding any webcams for projects, hopefully I’m wrong.

Went by the project on Cox Rd. this morning and stopped by to take a few pictures. This is a large project, much more than I thought it would have been. @I miss RVAa crane picture for the new thread. 3500 West View

When I noticed the one Cox rd. it did look like a small tower crane, depending on how it was turned, the building, now almost done it looks like, was blocking the base that identified the type. It may be gone, I was by there as well recently and didn’t notice it, but maybe it’s hiding again!

Saw that one, maybe it’s that.

I drove by this area in the last few days and don’t recall seeing one and don’t recall a project mentioned, does anyone know what this would be?

It looks temporary and hope so too, in the meantime, and while waiting for other surrounding parcels, blocks to be built out, over what will likely be years, having a “tidier” location for this seems acceptable until whatever the next move is.

Thanks for finding and posting these, had forgotten all about this! I know we want this to be built out by something other than what is basically a big parking lot, but seeing this seems like a start and in a location that really needed to be cleaned up and a transfer station is long overdue.

Hoping it’s there waiting for the tower crane pieces to show up. Can’t tell if there’s a pad there to receive the tower base, doesn’t look like it, but can’t really tell. How many floors is this one?

Is this (yummy taco) a chain, I’m not familiar with this one?