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UPDATE: Studio Row Apartments
Th 200+ apartment project at Fulton Hill Studios first reported back in February is still in the works.
From the most recent issue of the GFHCA’s Fall 2015 newsletter:
This project, once complete, will provide 242 workforce apartments, creative office space, a cafe, and a gallery. Phase I will consist of building two apartment buildings, while Phase II involves the second renovation of the historic Robert Fulton School.
Studio Row will improve the physical infrastructure of Greater Fulton by paving the Northampton paper street (as an extension of Northampton St.), providing street and building lighting, improving pedestrian infrastructure, and planting beautiful landscaping. Studio Row will provide the only market-rate rental units in the community.
The project will be a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments, with spaces for a gallery and a coffee shop, and underground parking.
One building of the project will cascade down the closed cobblestone street in front of the school. The other will be across Carlisle south of the school building. The proposal calls for reopening Northampton Street between Goddin Street and Carlisle Avenue.
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I kind of feel sorry for the folks who live on Goddin with this new development squashed up in there. Prime example of a developer milking every penny out of a piece of property.
The only way we in the Greater Fulton community will get the services and businesses that we need is to attract more people who want to live here. That determination was made during the Greater Fulton’s Future planning get initiative that the community conducted with the guidance of Virginia LISC several years ago.
We would like a grocery store, a school, sidewalks, connections to the river, health care, better transit, a café and some better restaurant options.
With the exception of schools, those community amenities and essential services are not provided by the government. They are made through private investment by businesses who see value in the community. Residents who live here see value in this community. Others are finally seeing value in this community, too.
We are a proud community that has been working hard together for years to get the services and amenities that we need and want. These apartments will improve safety and connectivity by opening a long-closed street, improving lighting and landscaping and increasing the eyes on the street.
They will also provide a needed housing option here: non-subsidized rental apartments. People who wish to live here but who cannot or do not wish to buy or rent a single family house or who do not qualify for subsidized housing will have an option to live here in this vibrant neighborhood.
As a resident of Greater Fulton, I believe that this development will improve the quality of life in our community.
Well stated, Juliellen!
As far as “squashed up in there” that’s regulated by zoning rules and the building codes in terms of green/open space, density and proximity to property lines.
I wonder why building 2 is on a slant like that? I think it’d be much more appealing to conform to a more traditional street grid/lay out.
The existing road slants down the hill there like that.
@Juliellen
What an awesome response. Would love to see more members of our greater community with your outlook. Hope you are on a community board, and if you’re not, you should be
Thanks, John
any idea on a start date or where it is in the approval process?
(nevermind, found the newsletter)
New project hopes to catalyze Fulton revival
http://richmondbizsense.com/2016/01/27/new-project-hopes-to-catalyze-fulton-revival/