Comments on: Shockoe Center Development Pro & Con

By: john

john — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:53:07 +0000

i feel that the diamond should stay put. at the beginning of the boulevard cultural zone .A place where families(baseball is a family friendly sport) can spend the day visiting museums and such.As opposed to the bottom where all you can really do is go from bar to bar.Now they want to make more bars!the field of the diamond was said to be in bad shape, i say overblown cost estimates to fuel a new park initiative. Slit drains aren’t that exspensive! Add a weightroom to the side of the park if that’s what the bellyache is.Bob Bobb mortgaged our public library to pay off the Valentine to give Crestar valuable river front property in Manchester. dISREGARDING ALL THE WORK THE COMMUNITY HAD WORKED ON. I said to him, you can’t see the river and he told me to walk between the buildings for a view. I told him where to go and it wasn’t Berkeley. Manchester is still stagnating maybe the vamusfart had something to do as well. So that sid let the developers work on a toll mass transportation project to bring the twentysomethings out to the diamond those 70 days a year.

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:19:18 +0000

And, the problem with forums is that people want to make a speech. That’s fine, but it limits wide participation. I’d like to see a limit on length of questions. You: 25 words or one minute to ask. Me: 1-2 minutes to answer.
Electric shock if either goes over the limit.

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:16:53 +0000

Sure. It’s hard to characterize, but the main themes seem to be “Why not the boulevard, why the bottom” and “It will cost our tax dollars to build.”
I did hear, though, a growing nuamber of people who heard the presentation for the first time and were saying “Now we get it.” If we had done a count, undecided would have won.

By: Richard.H

Richard.H — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:56:40 +0000

Thanks for the update David. I am sorry I was unable to attend. In your opinion, of those opposed to the development were they mainly concerned about the costs, the historic nature of the site, or was there some other strong current?

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:55:05 +0000

Excellent turnout 60-75 people, who stayed 1 1/2 hours. Spirited. Don’t klnow if many minds changed. Developer’s proposal is getting better.
Thanks to all who spread the word.