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22 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
Makes me wonder if this might happen again with the Powhite extension.
Speaking of the Powhite extension.....
22 hours ago, rjp212 said:hose new cul-de-sacs are worthless. 5 "stumps" that won't pull in enough tax revenue to cover future maintenance.
This whole project kind of screams "crapbag" to me. Excuse the technical jargon.
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10 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
whether its from additional carriers coming here (hello - Frontier and Alaska Air - I'm looking at BOTH of you!!
Can confirm Alaska Air is great. However, regarding Frontier ... maybe I scan too many "I'm the Main Character" type of sub-reddit forums, but it seems like there's always something with unruly passengers that happens on their flights! The most recent one was the lady seated in the emergency row who got arrested after giving the flight attendants all kinds of grief over whether she'd comply with the instructions.
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3 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
Then why even have the FIS at RIC at all? We obviously don't need it, right?
But imagine the flip-side: there is demand, and we don't have the capability. Then people would be asking why no one was thinking ahead.
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Exactly. They're limiting what they're allowed to limit here.
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15 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
Ugh... admittedly, some of the concerns are quite valid (over capacity at Freeman, pedestrian crossing issues, etc.) -
I'm normally a "defer to what the planning commission says" type of armchair quarterback, but this one is a tough case and I think the decision was reasonable. Freeman is overcrowded. The pre-COVID redistricting effort, an enormous can of worms, was shelved because there was no great present solution. I could see the decisionmakers here not wanting to disturb that status quo. This project was not a one-in-a-million opportunity or anything. Oh well.
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When my wife and I bought in the Willow Lawn area 10 years ago, we sacrificed size because we loved the area and believed it was on the upswing. A decade later we don't regret it.
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11 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
I was wondering if a crane of some sort was going to pop up there.
Drive by it every day. Maybe I'll pop a shot.
That construction area is a real annoyance, by the way.
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15 hours ago, eandslee said:
I don’t ever watch bike racing, but I certainly tuned in when my hometown was in the center of it all!
I work downtown, and, aside from the mess the road closures caused, it was one of the more exciting things to hit here in some time.* My son was a little guy at the time, and I took him over a couple of times to watch the racers. Some very cool vantage points.
*I'd say the filming of "Lincoln" was a bit more exciting, at least as a ground level matter. That production was incredibly friendly to people downtown. I'm a nobody but got to go inside the costume trailer and to pet the horses. And seeing the method actor Daniel Day-Lewis eat lunch at Sine was something.
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On 5/14/2024 at 1:02 PM, I miss RVA said:
What's really interesting and quite amazing is that (unless I missed one in there somewhere) it looks like this event has been in the U.S. exactly twice - 1986 in Colorado Springs and 2015 in Richmond. The fact that RVA was selected as one of the only two U.S. locations says something, no?
I'm not sure what it says, exactly, but it was a big deal here at the time.
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As someone who lives very near there, I'll comment that the develop is rather butt-ugly and doesn't fit the character of the area but add that it's nice they're being built.
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18 hours ago, CitiWalker said:
Well…looks like they just took down the TForce sign.
It's periodic corporate rebranding. About to become UForce. Just wait till they get to ZForce.
13 hours ago, wrldcoupe4 said:It’s under contract to a buyer.
Oh, nevermind.
This would be a great location for a super-massive, dozen-story, apartments-on-top-of-grocery-store development. (Not an original idea, even in this thread, but I think it's a good one!)
10 hours ago, I miss RVA said:Coupe - by chance have you heard anything about the couple who own (and live in) that cute little house smack in the middle of one of the blocks? They either weren't going to sell or - perhaps more likely - they were holding out to get the best deal they could. Curious to know if they're part of this.
Something inside of me wants that couple to get a huge bag if they were going to sell. There's something about seizing an opportunity!
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13 hours ago, Child2021 said:
Ahold bought them out, and started converting them to Martin's.
My wife and I both worked at (different) Ukrop's stores in our younger days. Didn't know each other back then, but we had common friends through Ukrop's and otherwise. We went to the Village Ukrop's on its last day, and that was a sad one.
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6 minutes ago, HRVT said:
The problem here is that these aren't just "loose guidelines" or "it would be nice if ya had this by 2025" recommendations. It's part of a literal agreement to be a PDL license holder.... something all A, A+, AA+ and AAA teams agreed to in exchange for continuing to have a team in those classifications.
You're right. But agreements are made to be adapted. I think we're going to agree to disagree on the viability of other markets as compared to Richmond.
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41 minutes ago, HRVT said:
They just have to wait out MLB/MiLB.... and I dont think baseball is going to look kindly on even more delay/uncertainty.
This is where I disagree. MLB/MILB has less "hand" than it seems. They've played their biggest hand, which is convincing a host city with consistently the league's highest attendance that it needs a new stadium. So the city has played ball, albeit incompetently so. The rest of their "hand" is an arbitrary deadline structure. Despite all the bellicose noise, it's a weak position because the grass truly won't be greener anywhere else, if they've even looked anywhere else. Lou DiBella will get upset in the papers every now and then, but at the end of the day this is the best possible outcome - getting a new park here. So, in the end, they will wait. Not forever, but MLB/MILB isn't going to cut ties with us if the thing isn't ready for opening day 2026. That would be dumb, imho, and contrary to MLB's usual strategy in these things.
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No -- at least not really.
This lawsuit has been filed in lieu of the petition, or perhaps as a precursor to it.
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29 minutes ago, I miss RVA said:
have the sinking feeling that Goldman's efforts will -- at best -- delay the process to the point that there's no way in hell the ballpark will be ready for opening day in 2026 or -- at worst -- completely derail the entire Diamond District redevelopment altogether. If it's the former, dunno if that mean's bye-bye Squirrels, but that doesn't bode well for the future of baseball in Richmond.
I'd say let's slow down here.
Assuming the referendum passes (and I think it would - the detail about moving the Ashe Center proceeds to RPS was unusually savvy), and yes, it would be in November, there's no way in the world that means bye-bye to the Squirrels. And we'd still be looking at the ballpark being in play for some point of the 2026 season, and the moment the first pitch is thrown there we are golden. Future of baseball in Richmond is secure the moment a shovel hits the dirt.
Edit: This is all assuming Goldman gets enough signatures on the petition, which I may have chalked up as too easy a burden before.
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14 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
Here's the Times-Dispatch's reporting on today's meeting:
Assuming he ascertains how many signatures he needs to obtain, I'd put the odds of Paul Goldman filing a petition calling for a bond referendum at between 99.99 and 100.00%.
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You can give the update on the appointment of directors and creation of the CDA....
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Council just voted unanimously (of those members present) for the ordinances.
They've moved on to a motion to expedite appointment of initial Diamond District Authority directors.
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Easily. As it always could.
Take last year's attendance, add about five home dates to account for the slightly longer International League schedule, and, boom, the Squirrels would have ranked 9th or 10th in the 20-team International League. Then consider this is at The Diamond, which everyone and their mother has said sucks since 2001 (when the Braves floated the first replacement trial balloon, for a site next to the Federal Reserve building), with AA teams coming into town, to the extent that has an attendance effect.
Hell, the Squirrels last year doubled Gwinnett's per-day attendance and that's who got the Braves (now the Stripers). They easily outdrew Louisville and lapped Memphis. They outdrew Norfolk. Some of these things are cyclical (I'd expect Norfolk's attendance to skyrocket this season, especially with Jackson Holliday back down there), but you get the point.
The point of a new-stadium-push is hardly ever that the team can't survive without a new stadium. That's certainly not the case for the Squirrels (although I'll be happy when the new ballpark actually is built). That wasn't even the case with the R-Braves. but that's a different story for a different time. In terms of demographics and interest, this has always solidly been a AAA market. Perhaps it is even more so now due to the emergence of Scott's Addition because The Diamond is certainly a popular destination for its residents.
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Squirrels had the third highest attendance in all of MILB in April.
In a nutshell: Richmond is in no danger of losing baseball. The Squirrels are profitable. The question, as it always is in stadium/arena discussions, is how to make the enterprise more profitable.
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19 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
mmm... possibly, considering that it's supposed to be taller (by one whole foot) than the Monroe Tower.
Has the height been adjusted upward? CoStar issued a press release back when saying the height would be 421 feet (i.e., actual height, not CoStar height). Monroe is 449 feet.
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Yeah, I tend to drive by it once a week, and the thing is rather massive.
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12 hours ago, I miss RVA said:
HOW do we pry a major law firm away from another city? And from where do we pull? D.C.? NYC? One of the southern cities? I could see a major New York or D.C. firm opening up a Richmond OFFICE - and maybe leasing out a couple of floors in an existing downtown building (one of the James Center buildings, for example). But I'm not sure how we go about getting a big law form to uproot from (city of choice) - to come to RVA and bring with them enough people to make a big tower possible.
The answer is you don't. That's never going to happen.
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Richmond's Suburban Developments
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Sure thing. Thanks!