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Demolition on Nine Mile
One of the last structures on the vacant block at 25th and Nine Mile fell today.
The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA) has been actively clearing this area abutting 24th Street, Fairmount Avenue, and Nine Mile for at least the past 3 years. A call to the RRHA offices this morning reveals that a site plan is in the works for the large lot, a plan which should be available in mid-September.
In a 2006 interview, then-City Council 7th District representative Delores McQuinn indicated that the lot was being aquired with the intention of developing a commercial anchor, possibly uncluding a grocery store, at the gateway intersection. She also said at the time that would likely be 2-3 more years before a developer was brought in.
And I have pics of this block before demolition in 2005.
By the way, this is not Woodville. It’s a part of Hechler’s former land.
As always 🙂 I’d love to see those photos.
As for the neighborhood tags, I go by what the city calls’em for clarity’s sake.
Yeah… that giant thorn in my side… maybe I should give you what I have on the east end. I have not done the rest of the city yet.
nice sound effects with the video. chomp chomp, eh?
this is great! now there are only 6 vacant eyesores visible from my house.
That last comment rubs me wrong. After all the eye sores are gone, maybe we can start running off all the older people who can’t afford to keep up their houses to our standards and truly turn church hill into a west end suburb.
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t tiz’s intent. Roll out to the 1300 blocks of 26th & 27th Streets, they are possibly the most devastated, vacant blocks in the city.