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The Shockoe Bottom Shutdown

Published May 13, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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Chris Brown and friends are taking over Shockoe Bottom with an afterparty in three clubs ...

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Shockoe Bottom firms urge action to stop violence

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Published May 13, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

You could say there are two Shockoe Bottoms. By day, it’s a historic district where people work, shop, dine and perhaps grab a few drinks. But by midnight many weekends, the clubs are in full swing ...

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Richmond to install 16 markers on slave trail

Published Feb. 13, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

The Richmond Slave Trail will soon be more than a worn path and a series of dots and lines on a map. This fall, the city plans to install 16 markers on the trail, which chronicles the history of the trade of enslaved Africans who were transported to Virginia until 1775. The trail starts at the site of the Manchester Docks on the south side of the James River, and it ends at the Negro Burial Ground and the original site of First African Baptist Church, just north of East Broad Street near

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Diamond’s sculpture moving to Shockoe Bottom

Published Feb. 16, 2010 at 12:14 p.m.

The American Indian sculpture “Connecticut” appears headed to the Lucky Strike power plant building on Richmond’s Tobacco Row after a vote today by the Richmond Metropolitan Authority ...

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Shockoe Bottom getting ‘Connecticut’ statue

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Published Feb. 16, 2010 at 11:01 p.m.

The sculpture of an American Indian at The Diamond will be moved to the Lucky Strike building in Shockoe Bottom, and it could be unveiled in May as part of a push for federal recognition of six Virginia tribes. The Richmond Metropolitan Authority voted yesterday to accept a proposal to install “Connecticut” atop the power plant building at East Cary and Pear streets ...

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Richmond stepping up development strategy

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.

Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones said he’s ready to get serious about economic development in the city, particularly in Shockoe Bottom. That’s where the new Department of Economic and Community Development will set up shop, in historic Main Street Station. It’s also where the city hopes to attract millions of dollars in private development, including a commercial project that officials say is being courted with $10 million in newly approved federal stimulus bonds ...

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Get ready for headbanging weekend

Published Oct. 15, 2009 at 4:01 a.m.
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We know one thing about this weekend: It’s going to be loud.  With a blitz of hard rockers storming the area—you can head north, east, west or to Shockoe Bottom ...

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Three Richmond officers face obstruction trial

Published July 25, 2009 at 11:01 p.m.

A jury trial starts tomorrow for three Richmond police officers charged with obstruction of justice. Authorities have said that off-duty officer Ian McCloskey beat up a man in a bar in Shockoe Bottom on Jan. 22, 2008, and that responding officers Floyd T. Campbell II and William A. House tried to cover it up. McCloskey is accused of threatening a witness ...

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Web sites duel about transfer center site

Published July 25, 2009 at 11:01 p.m.

Critics of a proposed bus-transfer center at Main Street Station are pushing for a more-centralized site in downtown Richmond as the project is entering a key public-review phase. The critics have organized as the Better Station Coalition and launched a Web site urging supporters to send e-mails to city officials who will be asked to approve GRTC’s plans for the second level of the historic, city-owned train shed in Shockoe Bottom ...

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Overhaul of Diamond is last plan standing

Published June 23, 2009 at 11:01 p.m.

Highwoods Properties drops plans for Shockoe Bottom ballpark, Boulevard development. Mayor says while baseball will return to Richmond in the spring, a long-term plan must be developed ...

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