Downtown Development, Electric School Buses, and SurvivorRVA?
Cheers RVA!
Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 54, with temperatures again dropping down to the high 20’s in the evening. Saturday is looking sunny with clouds and potentially rain moving in late Sunday.
the juice:
Mike Platania from Bizsense has reported a deal has been done with Douglas Development and Dominion Energy to bring hundreds of apartments and hotel rooms to the downtown building at 707 E. Main St.
The twenty-story tower has been mostly vacant in recent years.
Platania notes:
Though the Douglas deal takes much of Dominion’s available downtown real estate off the market, one notable chunk remains in 701 E. Cary St., the city block-sized lot where the energy company once planned a high-rise office tower and then a green space with electric vehicle parking spots and chargers. Both proposals have since been scrapped.
the pulp:
Richmond has put $65 million towards new and improved community centers, from the Richmonder. Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act have been put towards constructing two new centers, and renovating two others.
A pedestrian was seriously injured Thursday morning on Midlothian Turnpike in South Richmond, via WRIC. The driver remained on the scene.
Henrico is planning on adding 10 electric school buses to its fleet, with a grant from the EPA funding most of the cost, from WWBT. The county currently has 10 propane buses out of a total fleet of 600 buses.
SurvivorRVA is hosting a “Live Reality Game” event with a two-day version of Survivor set to take place next summer, with applications closing soon.
the dive:
R. Anthony Harris from RVAMag recently wrote about how reddit, the website with 70 million daily visitors and the 6th most popular in the world, was born in a UVA dorm room.
Students Alexis Ohanian and Steve Hoffman first came up with the idea back in 2005, and the online bulletin board driven by upvotes and downvotes was part of the first batch of companies at Y-Combinator (an incubator which later went on to launch Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Doordash and Twitch, to name a few).
The startup was quickly acquired, and the founders moved on, with Ohanain recently “returning to his roots” and donating $1 million to the UVA Women’s Basketball program.
Read the full article here.
the vibe:
Have an advantageous day RVA!
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