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Charlesinrichmond t1_ja864uu wrote

Reply to comment by poontong in How long do you think it is before RVA meets the same fate of cities like Austin? by piratestears

we can get far more dense. There is so much open land left in Richmond. Even in places like the Fan and Museum District.

Don't understimate the impact of being so close to the DC metro, so much nicer, and so much cheaper. Doesn't take all that much of Nova to move here to change this place dramatically

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tigranes5 t1_ja8b9j9 wrote

The problem is that for many years very little new housing was built in the city. No one wanted to live here because of the crime problem. It will take much longer for Richmond to catch up to other cities. Also, as you've pointed out in the past, Richmond has a lot of public housing projects that are off limits to private developers.

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Charlesinrichmond t1_ja8hv6d wrote

you are very right of course. But we can catch up eventually. And it will get worse if we don't try

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