Comments on: VCU buys Ukrops at Harrison and Grace http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:46:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stuart http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-83275 Stuart Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:01:03 +0000 http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/#comment-83275 Thank goodness VCU is saving the city from itself, what with all the blight and grunge-tastic night dwellers on Grace. Those were dark, dark days when Hardees was the only fast food option at Shafer and Broad. Thank Trani I can now choose between Qdoba, Five Guys and Extreeeeme Pizza and I can even charge my Rambucks after dark without being confronted by those scary panhandlers. If we're lucky enough maybe VCU Real Estate Foundation will lease their overpriced building to Crate and Barrel so I don't have to motor all the way to Short Pump Towne Centre for accent pieces for my dorm room. Thank goodness VCU is saving the city from itself, what with all the blight and grunge-tastic night dwellers on Grace. Those were dark, dark days when Hardees was the only fast food option at Shafer and Broad.

Thank Trani I can now choose between Qdoba, Five Guys and Extreeeeme Pizza and I can even charge my Rambucks after dark without being confronted by those scary panhandlers.

If we’re lucky enough maybe VCU Real Estate Foundation will lease their overpriced building to Crate and Barrel so I don’t have to motor all the way to Short Pump Towne Centre for accent pieces for my dorm room.

]]> By: Scott Burger http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-82833 Scott Burger Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:21:39 +0000 http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/#comment-82833 http://www.oregonhill.net/2008/10/24/ohna-president-asks-vcu-to-take-positive-step-for-true-community-partnership/ http://www.oregonhill.net/2008/10/24/ohna-president-asks-vcu-to-take-positive-step-for-true-community-partnership/

]]> By: FTRea http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-82775 FTRea Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:47:07 +0000 http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/#comment-82775 Scott, You make a good point if you're saying the City Auditorium project, at least some aspects of it, could/should have been put somewhere else. I didn't support that move by VCU. And, now we see, this very space might have been a key piece to solving VCU's need for such space to expand. Plus, no doubt, this was a parcel the Foundation had had its eye on for a long time. Scott,

You make a good point if you’re saying the City Auditorium project, at least some aspects of it, could/should have been put somewhere else. I didn’t support that move by VCU. And, now we see, this very space might have been a key piece to solving VCU’s need for such space to expand.

Plus, no doubt, this was a parcel the Foundation had had its eye on for a long time.

]]> By: Scott Burger http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-82762 Scott Burger Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:34:33 +0000 http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/#comment-82762 Remember when VCU told Oregon Hill, the city, and the state that there was no alternative to demolishing the historic stables and encroaching further into the neighborhood in order to build the massive student recreational center? Now they just happen to buy most of this city block less than a year later from starting the rec center construction? Does anyone believe anything the VCU admin says anymore? Will any state legislators listen to citizens who keep asking that VCU and its private Real Estate Foundation be investigated for their continued misrepresentations? What will VCU be paying for its share of the City's stormwater utility for all the parking lots and paved surface it owns? How will that compare to City residents'? Remember when VCU told Oregon Hill, the city, and the state that there was no alternative to demolishing the historic stables and encroaching further into the neighborhood in order to build the massive student recreational center? Now they just happen to buy most of this city block less than a year later from starting the rec center construction?

Does anyone believe anything the VCU admin says anymore? Will any state legislators listen to citizens who keep asking that VCU and its private Real Estate Foundation be investigated for their continued misrepresentations?

What will VCU be paying for its share of the City’s stormwater utility for all the parking lots and paved surface it owns? How will that compare to City residents’?

]]> By: Daniel http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-82643 Daniel Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:04:15 +0000 http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/#comment-82643 I think even though the real estate market on the whole is down (or at least slow in Richmond), I understand a much higher price for the space now compared to 6-7 years ago. I was still at VCU in 2002, and I can assure you that the whole stretch of Grace Street from Belvedere to at least Lombardy (and probably further, realistically) was pretty grunge-tastic. I wouldn't have wanted to really be around there after dark. On the whole, much of that stretch of Grace Street has since cleaned up considerably. Is it prime real estate? Nope. But I'm not as nervous about being near that 7-11 at 10 o'clock like I used to be. I think even though the real estate market on the whole is down (or at least slow in Richmond), I understand a much higher price for the space now compared to 6-7 years ago.

I was still at VCU in 2002, and I can assure you that the whole stretch of Grace Street from Belvedere to at least Lombardy (and probably further, realistically) was pretty grunge-tastic. I wouldn’t have wanted to really be around there after dark.

On the whole, much of that stretch of Grace Street has since cleaned up considerably. Is it prime real estate? Nope. But I’m not as nervous about being near that 7-11 at 10 o’clock like I used to be.

]]> By: FTRea http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-82544 FTRea Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:33:19 +0000 http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/#comment-82544 Jon, Thanks. It's fixed. Jon,

Thanks. It’s fixed.

]]> By: Jon http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/comment-page-1/#comment-82528 Jon Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:46:35 +0000 http://fdhub.net/vcu-buys-ukrops-at-harrison-and-grace/#comment-82528 'here' link to BizSense does not work. ‘here’ link to BizSense does not work.

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