Carytown & Museum District News Events in Richmond Virginia, West of the Boulevard

September 10, 2007

16 Comments.

1. ahem, East of the Boulevard?

   James @ September 10th, 2007 at 8:32 am

2. I think you’re just jealous that Todd Lofts isn’t the hippist place north of Broad St. anymore.

   Sam @ September 10th, 2007 at 10:40 am

3. It is not Scott’s Addition, that stops at the Boulevard. Folks take their civic association boundaries seriously around here. It may be New Town West but not sure.

   Fiona @ September 10th, 2007 at 10:53 am

4. stoveworks is in the new towne west neighborhood.

   sarah @ September 10th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

5. Newtowne West Civic Leaugue:
   http://www.newtownewest.org/

   john @ September 10th, 2007 at 5:18 pm

6. Newtowne West is 2 streets. If we went around naming every 2-street section of Richmond a separate name, we’d be knee-deep in neighborhoods.

   If a community is not large enough to elect it’s own City Council Representative, then it’s improper to correct people for not using the name of the neighborhood.

   Sam @ September 10th, 2007 at 9:28 pm

7. I say we call The Todd Stove SPCA Addition district!

   James @ September 10th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

8. What is interesting about how neighborhood association “naming” works is that it is a function of how the members identify themselves. What any of us think about the size of a given neighborhood association is immaterial to the fact that some group decided to organize themselves for the betterment of their collective quality of life. Even if a civic association is one block, kudos to the residents for looking to their own.

   With regard to elections having anything to do with it, most associations cross multiple Council districts, and often multiple planning districts as well. It is because of the fragmentation of neighborhoods that the coordination of associations toward common ends is so important. Collective voices have more impact.

   I would hope that property owners and renters alike would be aware of their neighborhood associations and support them ans the goof works they do.

   Fiona @ September 11th, 2007 at 7:24 am

9. spell check, thou hath forsaken me!

   Fiona @ September 11th, 2007 at 7:26 am

10. That area North of Broad but west of, say, Hermitage is a no-man’s land. Maybe John over at North Richmond News should be covering that area.

    Ross @ September 11th, 2007 at 11:28 am

11. Careful, reps from “No Man’s Land” are active in the community and more so as the area improves. Lets just say they are less well known to us in WoBlvd than they may be in their own turf.

    Fiona @ September 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

12. The Hermitage corridor would seem to have a natural connection for North Richmond News. With that said, Newtowne West is facing a situation more similar to Carver than anywhere else. It kind of depends what is going on…

    john @ September 11th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

13. Yeah I didn’t mean the area is a desolate wasteland, just that it isn’t covered by any of the existing community sites.

    Ross @ September 12th, 2007 at 9:21 am

14. Indeed, the historic western boundary of Scott’s Addition stops at the North Boulevard median. Though old-timers who grew up there regarded their “dominion” or sphere of interest as going to the front door of Capitol Theater (now a grass lot next to the William Byrd retirement building) and including Union or Broad Street Station.

    As for New Towne claiming the Stove Works, why not? This is Richmond, and we love naming our sections of town.

    But that Hermitage corridor is kind of of a gray area, though coalescing its own identity with every passing month, or new business opening.

    Once some blogger moves into the Stove, maybe a building-centric site will pop up.

    Harry @ September 17th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

15. The Newtowne-West Civic League has met several times with the owner of the Southern Stove Lofts and their residents will all be encouraged to join our Civic Association. While the NWCL does face similar issues as Carver, we have our own concerns and our own unique history as a commuinty. We are excited about the addition of new residents in an area that until the last 20 years was zoned industrial and thus unable to have residents.

    Rachel @ September 26th, 2007 at 11:35 am

16. Regardless of what neighborhood the Stove Lofts are actually located, there are pros and cons to living in these lofts.

    Here are a few:
    Con:The lofts are still under construction. There are a lot of bad smells and noise. This morning we were assaulted by hammering at 9:30 a.m. as they replaced tile flooring in the halls.
    Pro: When you find something wrong (and you will) they will send someone up usually the same day to fix whatever it is- broken disposal, furnace, loose cabinets, flooded apartment etc.

    Dogs are allowed!
    Pro: You can have a dog up to 55lbs! Dogs are awesome. There is a fenced in dog run to turn your canine loose.

    Con: The dog run isn’t much. It is on a crazy slope behind the dumpster near the train tracks and it is more mud than grass right now.

    Also, lazy residents let their dogs poop in the island in the parking lot or in the flower beds along the complex- then they fail to pick up after fido. There are many responsible pet owners here, but we are often the ones picking up the poo of others (not fun, but necessary).

    Free internet and Cable! OH MY!

    Pro: FREE

    CON: The internet is spotty sometimes and you can crash the network but downloading or uploading too much. The cable kind of sucks. There are 40 channels, no Bravo, no HBO- I am pretty sure they get free HBO @ Todd’s, but I live @ Southern Stove so I can’t speak for across the street. You can’t upgrade because the Direct TV is fed from co-ax cable instead of a box. There is no channel guide, so if you are a tv aficionado you are going to be disappointed.

    I highly recommend taking a look at different times of day so you can see who your neighbors will be. There are no freight elevators, so don’t expect to be able to bring in 12 ft sculptures or anything. I could barely get my queen size box spring in the elevator. Remember that exposed brick doesn’t hold heat or ac as well as plaster and that some apartments don’t have any exterior windows.

    On the upside the community is young, hip and friendly. It will be interesting to see how we will all fit in that tiny pool.

    RVA GRRL @ March 11th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

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