State of the City Annual Address
Posted on | January 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 26
Richmond CenterStage, Carpenter Theatre, 600 E. Grace St.
6:30pm-8:30pm
Complimentary parking will be available across from the Grace Street side of CenterStage. Parking entrances are on 6th and 7th Streets.
Mayor Jones will provide an account of the current state of Virginia’s capital city during his initial State of the City address. Address highlights will include the budget shortfalls the Jones Administration resolved in early 2009 as well as detailing the strategy to overcome the forecasted budgetary challenges. Other address highlights include economic development, schools, infrastructure, quality of life, public safety and building Richmond’s future as a tier one city.
Have any of you attended one of these events? Are you interested in attending something like this?
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January 21st, 2010 @ 2:40 pm
These State of the City events are always political fluff and provide little substance, yet it will be a nice opportunity to visit the renovated Carpenter Theater.
I would like Richmond Mayor, Dwight Jones, to act boldly. Richmond needs an architectural landmark to draw attention to Richmond as a Twenty-first Century city.
Seattle has a Space Needle, Saint Louis has it’s Arch, Richmond should build a beautiful tower with a multi-colored laser top that could be seen from D.C. and Hampton Roads.
With a beautiful tower downtown, we could all look to such a dynamic new landmark with pride, and on the lighter side of the issue, it would give Richmonders something to use as a geographical reference besides telling people that something is so many blocks from the, “old Miller and Rhodes” building (wherever that was).
January 22nd, 2010 @ 9:57 pm
um…are you serious?
January 24th, 2010 @ 9:10 am
Richmond lacks distinctive architecture in general, but when compared to other cities, Richmond has no single landmark that captures the dynamic of the former Confederate Capital.
There are several things that Richmond could do that would make the City a magnet for talented people and their ventures. I am sure that many citizens have constructive and creative ideas that would be helpful in re-energizing this rather generic river town.
1. A distinctive tower or tall building as a key landmark, would be a good start.
2. Tearing down the housing projects and scattering replacement housing into much smaller quad-plexes all around the region would do much to clean up the downtown and near town landscape.
3. Instead of trying to bury Richmond’s Confederate past, celebrate it and make money from it, just like cities like Plymouth, and Gettysburg have turned their historical affiliations into economic engines. It is estimated that by properly marketing Virginia’s Confederate era tourism, we could add a BILLION dollars in annual tourism revenue. (We currently get about $18 Billion annually from all tourism).
I am sure that others have some interesting and creative ideas. If you do, then go ahead and contact the Mayor’s office and give them your ideas for getting Richmond moving forward into the Twenty-first Century.