Maritza Pechin, whose various roles have included guiding the Diamond District project, is departing City Hall this Friday to take a job with the USDOT’s Build America Bureau.
The city deputy planning director whose various roles have included guiding the Diamond District project and implementing the Richmond 300 plan, is going to work for Pete Buttigieg.
The draft plan hinges on the selection of a developer to transform Gilpin Court from a public housing complex to a mixed-housing, mixed-income community.
While the idea to make the retail corridor a pedestrian-only thoroughfare has been floated casually for years, it has gained some traction of late through an ongoing online survey conducted by the city.
Varsha Vasudevan, Staff Writer A federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, DOT, will be used to reconnect Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood, according to the Reconnect Jackson Ward initiative. The grant is part of an initiative called Reconnecting Pilots Program by the Biden-Harris administration, which aims to reconnect communities throughout the U.S., according to