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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.
While touted as a progressive, monumental project to drastically alleviate traffic congestion, improve tourism and bolster commerce, the construction of the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike also called for the demolition of thousands of homes and the forcible displacement of neighborhoods – much to the dismay of Richmond residents.
About six years ago, Neverett Eggleston Jr. sat in a narrow back entry of Sugar’s Crab Shack, the popular Chamberlayne Avenue eatery that his son, Neverett A. Eggleston III, opened in 2016.
The 2nd Street Festival will return this fall, Saturday-Sunday, October 7-8, marking a big 35th anniversary year! This FREE event is produced by Venture Richmond Events.
Neverett Alexander Eggleston Jr., a well-known Jackson Ward entrepreneur and a founder of a Richmond trade association for Black businesses, has died.