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  1. Flood Zone
    The one project I felt confident about from the beginning. We’re here to nitpick the project details, but at the end of the day getting it done is better than being theoretically perfect. And this vote is a tangible marker in getting it done.
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    It’s not Kroger, Aldi, Lidl, Publix, or Whole Foods based on proximity to nearest locations. Probably wipe out Fresh Market for the same reason (location isn’t too far from the Parham store). Doubtful it’s Food Lion because it seems they want it to be nice. Can’t be Harris Teeter because that’s just Fancy Kroger and they’re not in RVA anyway. So we’re looking at Trader Joe’s or Amazon Fresh. Just a WAG, but it’s not Trader Joe’s. So, unless it’s Mystery Chain, then we’re looking at Amazon Fresh.
  3. Flood Zone
    Yeah, that whole piece is rubbish.
  4. Flood Zone
    I suppose it's not new or unusual in an interesting way. Kuddos to the developers for their humility, albeit belated.
  5. Flood Zone
    Rooftop bar on the residential tower? Legend's demise is coming quicker than we thought.
  6. Flood Zone
    The resolution posted on the city's website includes project details, including that the giant serpentine park ("Crescent Park") would be laid out with Piedmont and Coastal Plain features, which is primarily of interest to me because my kids are in elementary school and learning about Virginia's regions. Attractions spaced throughout the park would seem to include a "Piedmont Playground," a skate park, a splash pad, and a "stormwater park." There's also a pavillion. Outside the Crescent Park, of note, there's a planned pedestrian bridge to Scott's Addition. YMMV with all of this, of course.
  7. Flood Zone
    According to RTD: "Stoney said Tuesday that the project has the seven votes it needs to pass the City Council, as all but two members have signed on as legislative patrons."
  8. Flood Zone
    OK, these are fair points. Thanks.
  9. Flood Zone
    I agree -- but also disagree. It's how the park space is used. Something like The Yards in DC (near Nationals Park) mixes in green space quite well within a larger live-work-play development. Also, the ratio of developed space to park space is 5:1, so there's still quite a bit of land on the table here. Traffic flow may be an issue, but I'll take park space over a massive surface parking lot. The current one at The Diamond has to approach 11 acres, right? Anyway, although I don't want to be the board contrarian or apologist for a proposal I didn't even want to win, I have faith a process led by Maritza Pechin is going to be good. It's rare, especially where she works, for someone to be thought of so highly by so many people.
  10. Flood Zone
    Abysmal. Even if it’s temporary, I’d say temporarily abysmal isn’t a depth GRTC should aspire to reach.
  11. Flood Zone
    The Richmond Bizsense article mentions DLR Group designed the Greenville ballpark, but I wonder if the Omaha ballpark they did is a better comp. It’s a 9,000 capacity ballpark. That one is suburban, rather than in a city, but the photos in the gallery look fine to me. It’s not Populous or the other big league firm, but DLR has done some big projects, including college football stadiums. The other company mentioned, JMI Sports, works at the intersection of new construction and marketing. They’d be onboard to market naming rights, among other things.
  12. Flood Zone
    Although I get that source of apprehension, and it’s legitimate, this is a group, not just one entity, that won the proposal. And the headline entity in that group, Republic, has done some large projects very well, like Washington Harbor in Georgetown. I would’ve far preferred RCP (or whatever they’re called) - their ballpark rendering looked amazing - but I do think some patience is warranted here.
  13. Flood Zone
    They were my second choice of the three finalists. For whatever that’s worth. But it’s probably worthwhile to withhold judgment until we see something concrete (or actual concrete).
  14. Flood Zone
    I'd save the old horse stables building before the silos.
  15. Flood Zone
    I can see why the Legend guy might still be peeved. I mean, it’s not like those 16 floors would occupy young professionals who have money to spend and like to drink beer and socialize..
  16. Flood Zone
    I cannot reveal my source, but I have heard the answer is yes. although there are still a couple of holdouts among those abandoned houses.
  17. Flood Zone
    “It’s out of character for the area! If enough of us complain, it won’t get approved!” ”Yeah, but it was approved 22 years ago.” ”Well, …. that was so long ago!”
  18. Flood Zone
    I'm not going to bother distinguishing each of these markets, but I will note that Fort Myers is the spring training home of the Red Sox. I'd love to see a month-by-month chart for that airport; March must stick out like a skyscraper! :-) Not that I really think RIC has underperformed too badly -- given the size of our market, our proximity to other markets with multiple airports, and let's just say a multi-generational reputation that this airport is kind of small potatoes -- but I wonder if its location within the metropolitan area hurts its growth. The burgeoning population areas are in the western reaches; I wonder if RIC would be more attractive if it were a 10-minute drive for someone in Short Pump. That might be a small factor, at most, and of course not adjustable, but it's something I've thought about for awhile.
  19. Flood Zone
    By sheer coincidence, someone on the RVA subreddit just today posted “AI-created “ images of downtown Richmond in, yes, the year 3000. If those images are anything to go by, we’ll get some real density (but things will look bleak). Edit: Sorry, I chopped your whole quote, I Miss RVA, but I guess you’ll know what I’m quoting!
  20. Flood Zone
    Bingo. I think that’s it.
  21. Flood Zone
    Vision3000 getting dropped is okay for three reasons: (1) I'm skeptical of its locally-based pitch, for this project in particular, which should require the best of a deep pool; (2) its drawings (and yes, they were only drawings) seemed the most blah of the three, as evidenced by the contemporaneous response here back in May or whenever; and (3) putting "3000" in their name just walks into a far-too-obvious joke, i.e., yeah this will take so long that it might not get done until the year 3000. All in all, from what little we've actually seen, I favor Richmond Community Development Partners (although based on the poll cited in the Richmond Bizsense article, perhaps RVA Diamond is the favorite). Edit: Vision300 (not Vision3000)! I was reading it incorrectly the whole time. Well, I guess the 300 makes more sense for historical reasons.
  22. Flood Zone
    If I recall correctly (and maybe I don’t), that Publix complex was build despite community opposition-there was a vocal segment that was very much anti-.
  23. Flood Zone

    Near West End

    Flood Zone replied to whw53's topic in Richmond

    It's more than that, even. Ford uses the surface parking lot behind the UHaul for overflow employee parking. That said, I like having the car dealerships on that stretch; I prefer it to anything and everything moving westward. As someone who lives in the general area, it's very exciting. And I get that the south stretch of Broad is zoned TOD-1, so anything within that classification is fair game. But I greatly prefer they keep the building height modest on that side, out of respect for the existing neighborhoods that rather tightly abut that side, and go for increased height on the north side of Broad. Within a few years, there will be enough apartment buildings within a half-mile or mile of Willow Lawn that even a steady occupant of the Legends Grill/Hattie May's/Whatever restaurant space might materialize!
  24. Flood Zone

    Near West End

    Flood Zone replied to whw53's topic in Richmond

    That is perhaps the most no-brainer pocket to be developed in the Willow Lawn area, or maybe anywhere in Richmond. Meaning no offense to Computer World or the Professional Bartender Academy (which might not even be there anymore), that building hasn't seen significant action in well over a decade and the one-way alley behind it gets more traffic, from people wanting a quick cutover to Westmoreland, than the building itself. Also, I'm fine with not going 12 floors; it's so close to a wide swath of single-family homes that anything above the 7 reportedly planned would probably be disruptive.
  25. Flood Zone
    It's 100% sentiment, not argument. But that sort of thing has worked before -- not just in RVA, if you can believe -- it because if you complain enough, other people might complain too, and collective complaining is too loud to ignore sometimes. It's 100% the view. It isn't the food, it's not even the beer, and it's definitely not the service (i.e., the speed; our server was perfectly fine). But the view is so good, and has been enjoyed by so many people, that it's informally sort of a quasi-Richmond treasure. Maybe less so as Scott's Addition has added some more places you could realistically bring your kids, but Legend's view is an old reliable.
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