RVA 5x5 - September 23, 2022

Shine On You Crazy Diamond; Our We Learning Our Lessons?; Appeal Your Assessment; Let's Converse About Conversation, Taxing Questions

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STORY #1 — Shine On You Crazy Diamond
The City last week announced that the RVA Diamond Partners group would lead the development of the long-awaited Diamond District development that will develop 67 acres of property adjacent to the scorching-hot area of Scott’s Addition and deliver a new baseball stadium for the Flying Squirrels.

Michael Paul Williams noted: “The Diamond District appears to be the rare civic project in Richmond that is aligned with the moment and relative consensus. We’re not rolling the dice on a section of downtown populated by a shuttered Coliseum and the bleak remains of a festival marketplace.”

“Instead of swimming against the development tide, as it has done in the past, the city appears intent to finally ride a wave.”

And we are not putting all our chips in on one hand of poker and a casino to try and solve all our ills (while creating all kinds of new ones). Scott’s Addition exploded organicall…