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I wish Petersburg would have got it the first time, especially after the second "no" from the residents of Richmond. Petersburg could definitely use the revenue and maybe this time, politics, personal agendas, misinformation, and prejudice can stay out of the way of progress.

I imagine most of the potential TOD-1 zoning would be south of Lombardy and maybe right around Azelea Ave, and I'm all for it. That stretch between Lombardy (really Brookland Park Blvd) and I-95/64 in particular needs major overhaul. GRTC's line 1 currently serves the Chamberlayne corridor and most of the time it runs, or at least it's supposed to, every 15 minutes... and it's STILL often overcrowded. Definitely time for an upgrade to a Pulse line. Median running is very doable along most of Chamberlayne, with the exception being north of Westminster Ave where the median narrows a bit. Either way the roadway would have to be widened a bit in both directions everywhere north of the 6-lane section, which I don't think would be too much of an issue.

Just a small correction: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles still has at least one project each that has more units than Gilpin. I agree about the redevelopment. If anything, they should make some kind of street grid with dense mixed-income housing, with mixed housing types (at least 3 story row homes along with multistory mixed use buildings). Something to make it look and feel like an actual neighborhood (or integrated into the existing one) instead of just another housing development. EDIT: Speaking of the former Dove Court, what happened to the homes that was supposed to be built just to the west of there, where the old school or whatever was? Did that project get stalled or something?

Two-over-twos coming to Rhoadmiller St, next to I-95/64 and across from The Park at RVA. 180 total condos. https://richmondbizsense.com/2024/04/01/longtime-feed-more-hq-near-the-diamond-to-be-replaced-with-180-condos/

Yeah I seriously hope that the Richmond ones look nothing like that. That design is definitely the epitome of suburbia. Other than that, this is great news.

I don't know if this is a typo or they messed up somewhere or something, but Charles City County absolutely does NOT have anywhere close to that population.

It's very interesting that they think Roanoke is losing population again - hell, they just got back over 100k in the 2020 census

The fact that the first AC Hotel in Virginia will be in this city (and on AA Blvd to boot) says a lot. Things like this is why I believe Richmond will not be slowing down anytime soon. And perfect location, because not only is it near I-95/64, but it's right around the corner from not one but two pulse stations (Science Museum & Scott's Addition). So visitors can easily visit both the immediate vicinity and the rest of the city.

If they would've routed it straight down Belvidere/Cowardin/Richmond Hwy, it would've been a piece of cake. Yeah I know the demand isn't the same, but still.

He was afraid of not getting reelected huh? Sounds familiar... ******NAVY HILL******

"Next to Lowe's" is probably going to be the apartments already in progress at the corner of Allen & Leigh. The parking garage is virtually done.

We already have a double beltway so to speak in that part of the metro lol (VA 150, VA 288). If that new expressway was built, it would be a triple. Houston, anyone?

I've seen a document that basically said the expressway is off the table, I'll have to go back and try to dig it up. Just a normal boulevard in that corridor would easily work, without the added $$$ for a full on expressway.

That expressway is dead, and in my opinion rightfully so. It would've basically paralleled VA 288 a few miles to the south and wouldn't have accomplished much of anything. It would've just been redundant. I think a much better plan is to route an expressway from the southern terminus of I-295 (south of Petersburg) and loop up west of Petersburg to VA 288 between Hull St Rd & Pocahontas State Park, creating a beltway around both Richmond and Petersburg.

I took pictures of the flooding near Rocketts Landing but I still can't get on here through Tapatalk to post them. Basically the entire stretch of Dock Street that was bypassed by the roundabout (including under the building that was eyed for Stone's Bistro) was under water, and so were all of the benches in the area.