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Henrico starts work on a $1.5 million lake improvement project, Richmond hosts a local government roadshow, and construction gets underway on the Hanover leg of the Fall Line Trail. (BizSense Pro required)
If approved, the proposed budget calls for increasing the city’s general funds to roughly $1 billion, a 5% increase from the previous year’s budget and a first for the city.
City Council will review the document in depth over the next several weeks in a series of workshops, leading up to an initial public hearing April 8.
Approximately 4.5 acres of land between Interstate I-95 and Ancarrow’s Landing has been purchased from Norfolk Southern and will go under the James River Park System conservation easement and transferred to the City of Richmond as part of the park.
The 10-acre site in Shockoe Valley, they say, will tell the entire history of enslaved people and the effects it has had on the city and country as a whole.