Williams: VUU's stance on historic hospital lacks clarity
The debate surrounding the hospital has exposed fissures on the topic within the Black community.
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The debate surrounding the hospital has exposed fissures on the topic within the Black community.
It’s been an iconic example of what planners and architects like to call adaptive reuse of historic buildings – even though the roughly century-old commercial buildings that opened the door to tax-credit financed redevelopment in Scott’s Addition aren’t everyone’s notion of landmarks of the past – but the neighborhood has been changing.
Patsy Pettus has spent roughly the last decade quietly funding efforts to save and restore some of Virginia’s most treasured historical sites.
Enlarged from a cottage that dates to the 1780s, the solitary Woodward House along Williamsburg Road is included in the listing that’s marketing the 2-acre property for development.
The 150-page document in the works since 2020 aims to balance development and preservation interests as a supplement to the citywide Richmond 300 plan.