821 Cafe Announces New Hours

From social media post:

We got some exciting changes starting next week at the ol’ cafe! We will now be open 9am to 9pm Tuesday-Sunday. That’s an hour earlier on the weekdays, an hour later on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. and more importantly, we’ll now be staying open until 9 pm on the weekends! So, come see us a little earlier during the week or a lot later on the weekends!

Tending The Garden

Neighbor Tanya Nace looks over a small plot next to Hollywood Cemetery on Cherry Street.

A good reminder to water pants and trees next week as it will turn hotter.

YWCA’s Sprout School To Have Oregon Hill “Outpost”

RichmondBizSense.com reports on the YWCA’s plans for expanding its childcare program.

The nonprofit’s Sprout School, a full-day and year-round early childhood education program, is expected to open a downtown Richmond location in spring 2022 and an Oregon Hill location in winter 2023.

The Oregon Hill outpost will be located at St. Andrew’s School at 227 S. Cherry St. The school and nonprofit have already signed an agreement to open the location, Tissiere said.

Cherry Street Photo

From this 1905 Sanborn (below) it appears that the business on the corner (that comes out to the curb) was at the corner of Canal (now Cumberland) and Cherry! So this is actually a photo of the west side of the 100 block of Cherry. The frame house that still stands on the west side of the 100 block of Cherry (once occupied by the Jenkins family) is the white frame house on the right hand side of the photo. The City Auditorium (now VCU recreational center) is in the background.

Many older residents remember when VCU demolished the three fine brick buildings shown in the photo to the left (south) of the Jenkins House. (The corner store had already been demolished but VCU demolished the neat carriage house show on the map behind the corner store.)

Special Use Permit (SUP)

ORD. 2019-295 To amend Ord. No. 2012-200-2013-4, adopted Jan. 28, 2013, which authorized the special use of the property known as 407 South Cherry Street for the purpose of permitting multifamily use and the property known as 811 Albemarle Street for the purpose of establishing a single-family dwelling lot and a lot to be used for surface parking accessory to a multifamily use, to modify the number of bedrooms in the multifamily dwelling and to allow balconies, upon certain terms and conditions.
This ordinance was introduced and referred to the Planning Commission meeting on Monday, November 4, 2019, at 1:30 p.m.
Gay Blundon (Victory Apartments) presented his plan at a meeting of the Oregon hill Neighborhood Association back in September. The group voted to support his request for an amendment to his SUP.
After the Planning Commission it’ll go to City Council on November 12.

Recent Crime Reports

From CommunityCrimeMap.com:

ALL OTHER LARCENY
1XX S PINE ST
Aug 22, 2019 at 6:00 am
Data provided by Richmond Police Department (VA)📷

THEFT FROM BUILDING
6XX SPRING ST
Aug 22, 2019 at 4:50 am
Data provided by Richmond Police Department (VA)📷

BURGLARY/B and E/OUTBUILDING
3XX S PINE ST
Aug 22, 2019 at 12:48 am
Data provided by Richmond Police Department (VA)📷

HIT AND RUN
4XX S CHERRY ST
Aug 21, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Data provided by Richmond Police Department (VA)

THEFT FROM MOTOR VEHICLE
9XX IDLEWOOD AVE
Aug 21, 2019 at 5:20 pm
Data provided by Richmond Police Department (VA)