[New Richmond Arena]

On 5/14/2019 at 11:58 AM, georgeglass said:

I have read that VCU has no plans at this time to invest in a football program and that they are focused on the current athletic programs. That said, my father was a college football coach for many years and when he was at South Florida, he said representatives from VCU visited to see how that program got started and looked at the expenditures etc and it's ability to fund other sports etc. I guess ultimately, they didn't like what they saw. That would have been around 2009 ish.

Much of the strength of the VCU basketball program comes from that fact that it's a large school where basketball doesn't have to compete with football.  Not to mention the recruiting challenges in competing with UVA and VT for top D1 recruits.  I see VCU building a new arena or significantly renovating the current facility LONG before they would consider dumping the money into building a football stadium.  There is still also the looming issue of brain injuries in football that is leading to fewer kids playing in high school and therefore fewer to recruit to play in college.  Seems like a bad time to jump into football.

[Dominion Resources: New High-rise Building Planned for Downtown]

16 hours ago, wrldcoupe4 said:

This is the most definite tentative thing to happen. 

The way it was told to me was that they had begun applying for the permits needed for the demolition / explosives already.  So it's a strong definitely maybe.

[Dominion Resources: New High-rise Building Planned for Downtown]

I was told by someone in the fire department that there are tentative plans to demolish the old Dominion tower in October of this year.  "Soft demo" should begin in June.  They said the building will be imploded.  No word on what will replace it yet.