I'd like to see a water slide in summer/luge run in winter from the top of Church Hill, down Broad and as far up towards MCV as possible. You want to talk about green rapid transit? This is it people! Let's take advantage of the potential energy locked into our many hills! More slides! Multi slides! Mega slides!

Yeah, that's the sort of generic non-answer I'm expecting, and kind of the answer they've given in the past when I've inquired. Maybe they'll surprise us this time!

IDK if that's true or not, but if it's a rumour, this may be where it started (the Odd Fellows aren't Masons, but it's a similar sort of organization with unusual rites):

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/odd-fellows-found-skeletons

Yeah, it's weird. This was the most recent article I could find (from April 2022), and it sounded like they were poised to get things going, with most construction complete, and just the final design phase to be completed, then boom, silence for almost a year.

Every time I've asked any employee about when the Church Hill facility will open, they're just like 'in a few months'. 🤷‍♂️

Edit:. I dug around on the permit portal to see if that would shed any light on what's going on, but other than their building permit expiring in March 2023, there's not much relevant public info.

Address: 520 N. 25th st

https://energov.richmondgov.com/EnerGov_Prod/SelfService/richmondvaprod#/search?m=1&fm=2&ps=10&pn=1&em=true&st=520%20N.%2025th%20st

I don't think it's funding. Waukeshaw Development, the umbrella org that is owned by the same owners (Dave McCormack & co) as Beales, Trapezium, Demolition Coffee, and a bunch of other successful entities, have deep pockets. They are doing several development projects throughout Virginia, so maybe they're spread thin on a project management or manpower level.

https://waukeshaw.com/

I just emailed them at the address on that page. We'll see if they bother to get back to me with an informative answer.

As others have said, Google maps has a speedometer, but there are also lots of standalone GPS speedometer apps that display your speed in full screen and are very accurate.

This recent list had some good local ones:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rva/comments/10lca9d/so_where_in_rva_do_i_need_to_go_to_get_a_good

Dayum, now we're gleaming the cube of the English language.

You and me both.

>talking cash shit

🤣What's that mean? I'm still not sure if husband likes the decor or not. lol. But I'm loving this thread.

I think it's 'loving the decor to death'?

Edit: Nope, 'read for filth' is actually a thing:

>The act of criticizing, or being criticized to the fullest extent

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=read%20for%20filth

So I guess husband doesn't like the venue?

Not a venue, but Old City Hall is pretty cool inside:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Atrium_Old_City_Hall_Richmond%2C_VA_%288748859851%29.jpg/1280px-Atrium_Old_City_Hall_Richmond%2C_VA_%288748859851%29.jpg

I can't find a proper full size map, but this Dep of Public Utilities PDF has some zoomable images (no real detail) and descriptions that might be useful:

https://www.rva.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/Sanitary%20Sewer%20Replacement%20-%20Libbie%20and%20Cary%20Newsletter_Volume%201.pdf

Another article with a few more details:

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/richmond-police-officer-child-pornogrpahy-arrest-david-stone-january-26-2023

>truck and tractor museum in colonial heights.

Seconded. Well worth a visit if you like machinery, old cars, trucks, tractors and motorcycles. The brightly painted equipment makes kids lose their minds. Unfortunately there's only one tractor kids can sit on.

https://keystonetractorworks.com/

Mega crane putting up prefab concrete panels at 18th & E. Grace in Shockoe

>What is his liability for keeping an unsecured gun around a mentally disturbed child who had already been posting threats to his school??

It's a class 1 misdemeanor, which is basically a slap on the wrist. In any case, the cops charged the guardian, it went to court, and he was acquitted due to “insufficient evidence to convict.”

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter4/section18.2-56.2/

Article on gun owners' acquittal:

https://www.wric.com/news/crime/guardian-of-15-year-old-accused-of-killing-lucia-bremer-acquitted-on-gun-charge/

And Trippie didn't go on until after 2am (after playing a show all the way up in Mass.).

What a shit venue, and really, what a shit performer, for planning 2-3 east coast shows on the same day. Straight money grab. I hope his fans are pissed.

I heard the show in Richmond was going to be a live feed of the one in Massachusetts, but IDK if that's true.

Edit:. Not true. He showed up in person eventually. Some of the commenters on that Insta link waited 5 hours in the cold rain!

If they sold tickets to a show where the main advertised performer wasn't going to be present, I'd say there's room for a class-action case against the club assuming people want to go through the effort.

Cold Harbor, Malvern, some of the Battlefield Parks in Varina, Osbourne Landing.

Meanwhile, the heroin trafficker that was recently convicted got 4½ years. 🤔

This also doesn't bode well for Michael Hild, whose fraud is valued at hundreds of times more than this. He's to be sentenced next week.

Greater Richmond Grains

https://www.grgrains.com/products/deep-roots-milling-stone-ground-flour

>Ancarrow's Landing towards the Slave Trail. Park at Rocket's Landing and walk towards downtown.

I'm not sure if you're suggesting they walk from Rocketts to Anncarrows, but that's a very long walk. Ancarrows is across the river from Rocketts, and is a 3.4 mile walk to get there, all the way across the 14th St bridge, which means an almost 7 mile roundtrip back to the car. Quite a distance for someone with mobility issues, but Anncarrows does have a parking lot.

https://i.imgur.com/LrM89DE.png

Perhaps you're referring to Shiplock Park on Dock St, which has a small network of dirt paths? In which case, OP could park in the parking lot at Shiplock, if it's not full.