A neighbor took this photo yesterday evening. The City has been doing repaving and maintenance work on Main and Franklin streets and the theory is that this is the reason for the extra traffic.
South Cherry Street Traffic Congestion
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Category Archives: Cherry Street
JIMMY’S SIDEWALK SALE SUNDAY
From FaceBook event page:
I’m Not Selling Any of the Brick Sidewalk.
I Will Be Putting Things On the Brick Sidewalk to Sell.JIMMY’S SIDEWALK SALE STARTS 10AM THIS SUNDAY
10am-3pm (Sunday Aug 4)
310 S. Cherry St. (Richmond, VA 23220)
(Just South of VCU Campus) CASH or CHECK ONLY – NO PLASTICJUST BACK FROM MIAMI w/ a HUGE NUMBER OF LPs
*30 crates of Rock, Soul, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Folk & more*
(Start @ 50 cents.Best Ones are Market Priced ($4 up to $20)
(Wide range of Great Artists From The Fall to Art Ensemble of Chicago to rare New Wave Picture Sleeves to Yazoo & Pacific Jazz label in great shape)
Several Boxes of 45RPM Singles
10 Boxes of CDs (Many are 10 cents ea.)
200 Old Music Mags (Mojo, Option, NME, Guitar Player, Paste)
(Held in the shade out of the sun!)
*** I’ll also have LPs next Sat. at the Wonderful
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all day on Strawberry St.– Kitschy Printed Matter
– Old Posters
– McIntosh 1700 Stereo Receiver $600.00 (in excellent working condition)
– Klipsch Speakers
– Dual Turntable with Wooden Base $80.00 (in excellent working condition)
– A Few CD Players
– An Accordion That Got Left in the Basement So Now It’s Ruined
– Rolex Watch From the First Lady
– Many Other Hard-To-Find Items
The Women of Hollywood Specialty Walking Tour This Saturday
From the Valentine Richmond History Center:
May 25
Hollywood Cemetery: The Women of Hollywood Specialty Walking Tour* (2-4pm)
Explore the significant role that women’s groups played in Hollywood Cemetery’s history from the Civil War to the present. Stops include gravesites of female residents who led independent lives as educators, authors, preservationists, suffragists, humanitarians or as the power behind the scenes of famous men. Meet at the cemetery entrance at Cherry and Albemarle streets.
Alley Work
Some neighborhood alleys have been getting redone by City work crews. This one, which bisects the 500 blocks of Cherry, Laurel, Pine, received the smooth gravel treatment this morning.
Hollywood Cemetery Specialty Walking Tour This Sunday
From the Valentine Richmond History Center:
May 12
Hollywood Cemetery Specialty Walking Tour* (2-4pm)
An extension of the daily “Highlights” tour, this version covers in more detail the cemetery’s unique history, landscape design, architecture, symbols and residents. Meet at the cemetery entrance at Cherry and Albemarle streets.
From The Plan…
…, the Richmond Connects transportation draft plan that is-
Looks like the Idlewood roundabout proposal made the Safety Project draft map. Also notice the 2nd Street Connector marked in blue as a new street.
for the next map, use this legend-
Of course, there’s a lot more to the Richmond Connects plan (buses, trains, etc.) and there is still time to submit comments.
(I will not relate all the comments I made, except that I did suggest mass transit options for our riverfront parks as a solution to parking/traffic nightmares.)
Sign of Spring
Rolling up the VCU tennis bubble dome yesterday morning-
I wonder how the previous bubble dome is doing.
Clean Up At Victory Rug
City Council Approves Victory Rug SUP
From Times Dispatch article:
After a brief, final flaring of tension between a neighborhood group and a developer, the City Council also unanimously approved a special-use permit that will allow the transformation of the former Victory Carpet Cleaning building at 407 S. Cherry St. into a dozen apartments.
The overhaul of the 123-year-old, three-story brick building by developer Guy Blundon was the subject of a “long, arduous set of negotiations” with neighbors, Blundon told the council Monday night.
“We have made a lot of concessions, and I think we will have a wonderful project,” Blundon said, adding that he was “dumbfounded” by last-minute criticism from Todd Woodson, executive director of the Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council and treasurer of the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association.
Residents were successful in getting Blundon to reduce the number of proposed units by half and agree to not rent to Virginia Commonwealth University students, except married couples or military veterans.
However, Woodson said he only got the final wording of the agreement Sunday, which will allow VCU students who are older than 25 to be tenants. He considered that a breach of the “gentlemen’s agreement” between Blundon and the neighborhood. Blundon said he arrived at the final language after talks with his lawyer about discrimination concerns.
Woodson said the neighborhood association was supporting the special-use permit request with “extreme reservation.”
“Like the James River hawk that graces our environs, we will be watching every move,” Woodson said.
Cherry Street Sidewalk Repair
100 block of S.Cherry Street closed for brick sidewalk repair.
(Glad to see #7 getting the attention it deserves!)
