The804.com–Richmond VA Real Estate Blog

March 2, 2007

Downtown Rising

Filed under: downtown — the804.com @ 8:08 am
  • Venture Richmond (our downtown booster club) recently launched their website.  The site is not bad, not great.  We shall be watching with great interest. 
  • I’m pretty excited about this new blog Urban Richmond?.  Its inaugural post comparing Richmond to Dayton (Richmond could be worse) was outstanding.  We shall be watching with great interest.   Here is part of the site’s mission…
    “Urban life in Richmond is getting better: new developments, new restaurants, multiple blogs about life in the city, new politicians (OK, maybe there’s never hope in politics). In this blog I will track these and other trends towards urbanization in RVA, my hometown. And maybe together we can make a community of people who can make this a better place to live.”
  • Don’t forget…Tonight is First Walk Friday.  Perfect weather, so no excuses this time.

3 Comments

  1. Hopefully, Venture Richmond will be a more responsible booster group than some of its predecessors, Richmond Renaissance in particular. No more white elephants, no more corporate welfare.

    Thanks,
    Scott

    Comment by Scott Burger — March 2, 2007 @ 9:12 am

  2. Thanks for the recommendation. I hope I can live up to your expectations. I also read your blog regularly, and once I figure out all of this blogging stuff, will get you added to my blogroll.
    Ambivalent Richmonder

    Comment by ambivalentrichmonder — March 2, 2007 @ 4:33 pm

  3. [...] In other Richmond news, thanks to the 804.com blog for pointing out the new Venture Richmond website (and mentioning my blog too, thanks 804.com!). Venture Richmond is the group that resulted from the Wilder-forced merger of Richmond Renaissance, City Celebrations, the River District Alliance, and the Richmond Riverfront Corp.  Their website has some great stuff about all the new developments going on downtown, but I had to laugh that their list of “authentic Richmond experiences” included a canal cruise.  You tell me one Richmonder you know who’s actually cruised in the canal (and I mean in those little boats they have in the summer).  Go ahead.  See if you can find one. Explore posts in the same categories: Uncategorized [...]

    Pingback by 4 Light-Rail Projects in Virginia, where is Richmond’s? « Urban Richmond? — March 2, 2007 @ 5:44 pm

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