VCU President Michael Rao met with the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial board Wednesday for a wide-ranging discussion that included a potential racial literacy requirement, student safety and the future of the
It's been two years in the making. "The room is called the Healing Space. The Healing Space so people can heal," Terrell Harrigan, project designer said.
The state-led study into the health system’s governance structure comes as a request to examine its $73 million project exit payment has been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Justice.
“The developer exploited our desire to partner with the city.to push a grossly one-sided project that offers limited value to VCU Health but saddles us with all of the project’s costs and risks,” then-VCU Health CEO Art Kellermann said days before signing off on the deal.
A risk analysis of the deal, which last week drew added scrutiny from Gov. Glenn Youngkin, said the lease “was horribly one-sided, and certainly not what any of us would have recommended as a starting point for a complex transaction such as this.”