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Before and after on Marshall Street
06/01/2010 11:00 AM by John M
The Church Hill Association’s May 2010 Newsletter (PDF) has a nice piece on the restoration of the former laundromat at Marshall and 27th Streets:
Currently under renovation, this neglected old structure is being transformed into three upscale apartments and a small walk-up retail space for the neighborhood. […] Kellman is a firm believer that a vibrant neighborhood has amenities for its residents such as coffee shops and small, walk up neighborhood retail combined with unique living spaces. His goal is to give new life to historic structures that still have good bones, often saving them from certain ruin.
May 2010
July 1960
November 2005
What a great example of what corrective and appropriate zoning can do to encourage development. This is what R63 is all about.
From the CHA: There will be an open house here on June 10th from 5–7PM. “Come see the new spaces, and enjoy an evening with friends and neighbors.”
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I drive by there every day. The progress is refreshing! Looks like a great project by Monument.
I just went to this open house, and it was great to see. The cookies were delicious as well.
There are 3 apartments for rent for anyone looking.
The most interesting thing that came up in conversation was that they found the old 27th Street Inn sigh inside the building and have it in storage.
Yes, the old sign was tearing the facade off the building – bricks cracking apart. It was taken down and laid inside. I was hoping they would repurpose it on the building when they rennovated it. Yes, it looks great now, the building! Sigh though about parking as I know we have issues now and things will only get worse.
Now, if we can just get that ghetto trash (and using that term in the sense of mindset) that owns the 401 building to get off their ass and do something similar with it rather than dicking the city around like they have for the past 6 years now. And light a fire under the city’s ass as well!
The oldest commercial building in Richmond left to rot when it could have been sold off a few years back to the right people who would have done the building’s historical preservation right.