Richmond in Pictures

[burt]

Your right burt I would love to see some pics of the Federal courts building.

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Joey, Ryan has some pictures of the Fed Court site and its foundation in his new set of pictures. Go to home page of RCW and place ur curser over the thumbnail picture of the three old buildings on Main at 14th street, and it will bring up thumbnails of all 66 pictures. Just hit the ones you want to see in detail with ur curser.

All that is completed of the new Fec Court is the basic foundation.

Happy hunting!

[wrldcoupe4]

Okay here's a few pics I took over memorial day weekend. They are of the Virginia War Memorial. Nothing special but I hope you enjoy. I was gonna take a ton of downtown, but that Monday was so nice that I chilled with some friends down near belle island on the river instead

[wrldcoupe4]

I get off of work tomorrow at 2 so I'll try to take some pics downtown. I think I'm meeting up with some friends at the River in the afternoon so I'll slip in some pics....

[wrldcoupe4]

A few pics I took today before that crazy downpour. hope you enjoy...

Lady Bird is coming along:

Construction has begun on the Lucky Strike Factory at the eastern end of Tobacco Row:

New townhouses on Broad near 20th st:

6th St. Reopened:

the foundation of the new Federal Courthouse on Broad St.

Washington Monument at the Capitol...Old City Hall to the right, "New" City Hall peeking over at the top

Old City Hall

City Hall's recladding project is almost finished.

I wanted to take a lot more but like I said, that rain defeated me...

[wrldcoupe4]

This was taken from the webcam atop Johnson Hall....you can see the Park Place Apartments underway in the foreground and various other buildings in the background:

[wrldcoupe4]

some pics using the VCU Johnson webcam:

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

The Landmark Theatre and an Episcopal Church to its Right

View from VCU looking east. Monroe Park at the bottom, condo towers and student housing and Park Place Apts in the middle with the CBD skyline in the distance.

Various residential towers around Monroe Park

[burt]

Really nice fotos from VCU's webcam. Monroe Park and its surroundings is so cosmopolitan. The Sacred Heart Cathedral, the Mosque-like Landmark Theatre and the old pre-war Prestwould high rise add a lot of class to the area.

Richmond's downtown is quite dense with something like 32,000 people living within a mile of Capitol Square. In the Southeastern US, that core density figure ranks third after Atlanta and Miami. My source is CitySkyscraper Southeast forum.

[burt]

Great new pictures, Coupe.

I see that the grey paint is being totally removed from Lady Bird.

Wonderful skyline shots thru the transparency of War Memorial.

Why, when all that nice re-cladding was done, did they not do something about the white hulk on the roof of City Hall?

[wrldcoupe4]

Burt- good point about the top of the City Hall. I remember hearing that they were supposed to put some special lighting on top of City Hall to make it stand out. Havent seen it yet though....

[burt]

Coupe. Re: your pics of June 8th, here are a few comments and questions.

When you snapped work beginning at Lucky Strike, did you happen to notice any town house construction on the Main Street side near Millie's? Somewhere I read that Forrest City, which is developing Tobacco Row, would be building a line of town houses in that area.

And is there any work at all going on at the Edgeworth building? I saw a rendering of it, but have never read that work had begun.

Amazing town house construction underway on Broad between 19th and 21st. Also, across the street on Broad, a new condo (pictured elsewhere) is almost finished. This residential work is in addition to recently completed condos on 19th between Broad and Grace incorporating an old Synagogue and across from In Your Ear's facade of saved houses. Then, further south at s/w corner of 19th and Grace are two restored beauties (across from the famous old Craig House sitting catty-cornered across the street). And also, new residential conversion work on the west side of 19th between Grace and Franklin. This area of the Bottom is teeming with residential construction. Not to forget the old Shockoe Arts complex in a tobacco warehouse on Grace between 21st and 22nd.

What is that brick-like strip down the middle of newly remodeled 6th street? Is it going to be planted, or is it just decor?

Again, thanks for the great photos.

Oh, one more question - has work begun on the tower portion of the old tobacco warehouse fronting on Cary between 19th and 20th? Everything surrounding the tower portion on the entire block - 19th 20th Main and Cary - has been restored and is called "Canal" something or other. B)

[wrldcoupe4]

I dont remember townhouse construction yet but I could be wrong....I didn't see much work going on at the Edgeworth either, at least on the Cary st side. That bricklike strip along 6th st is a brick median. It extends from grace to broad. It is level with the street. and your last question...hmmm, I think maybe if its part of what is called the Canal Lofts or something to that nature.

[wrldcoupe4]

okay here are some pics from vacation...this is from the mountains: wow Vdogg can you resize these? I dunno how to do that

some pics of the cabin which was totally awesome:

exterior...

view from the top deck:

from nearby (the first one is a little blurry I think):

At Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg:

Gatlinburg, which in this picture kind of reminds me of a european village

[burt]

Mmmmmmm!!! Total rustic luxury and what views!!!

Now, let's see the sea side.

[wrldcoupe4]

will do....first though, I think I'll go ahead and head downtown. Any requests? I'm thinking of hitting the American Tobacco Center, the completed Riverside on the James, maybe the Vistas site if there is any activity, the courthouse site...

[eandslee]

will do....first though, I think I'll go ahead and head downtown. Any requests? I'm thinking of hitting the American Tobacco Center, the completed Riverside on the James, maybe the Vistas site if there is any activity, the courthouse site...

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Ooo, don't forget Philip Morris!

[wrldcoupe4]

okay guys I'm back and had a chance to take some good pics before the rain came in... I'll post them in a little bit

[wrldcoupe4]

quick ?.....how can I resize my images so that some of them aren't huge when they are posted??

[eandslee]

quick ?.....how can I resize my images so that some of them aren't huge when they are posted??

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Sorry, don't know what to tell you. I have some software that is free that will resize your photos, but I've noticed that the quality decreases somewhat, especially when the resizing of the photos goes from huge to really small. You can still try it though. The free software is called "Easy Thumbnails". Here's a link:

Easy Thumbnails

[wrldcoupe4]

I just found out how....thanks though! Ill be posting pics from today in 2 installments soon ROTJ is open and looks awesome

[wrldcoupe4]

Here are some pics from today:

The Lady Bird Hat Building is coming along nicely...They cut an entrance to the canal through 6 solid feet of rock foundation!

The main entrance to the office tower segment of ROTJ

A peak into the power plant portion of the project which is still under construction

This is such a beautiful building...it would make a great hotel or something right along the canal....

The view north from one of the bridges crossing onto brown's island now

I really dont think this looks as bad as everyone says...I actually kind of like it

looking west along the canal

interesting how they left the supports like this

The Omni is receiving some sort of face lift. There was scaffolding around the lower floors of the building and a sign saying that they were working on a fresh look...

The Martin Agency Headquarters

Bank of America tower from the slip

I'll put about 15 more on later...enjoy

[wrldcoupe4]

maybe I don't know how to resize them here afterall

[eandslee]

Thanks Coupe for posting those pictures. Seeing those were as refreshing as drinking an ice cold glass of water on a very hot day...thanks again! Great shots too!

[wrldcoupe4]

I could've used that glass of ice cold water while I was takiing the pics...It was hot as hell outside today!

[wrldcoupe4]

part 2:

The Hard Shell Restaurant in Shockoe Slip

La Diff Furniture at the Turning Basin

Looking north down Virginia Street. The building on the right is HQ for First Market Bank. Morton's Steakhouse is also located there. To the left is condos and the HQ for CarLoan.com.

Looking across the turning basin to the site that will become Vistas on the James

View from near the Vistas site

The edgeworth building at Tobacco Row which will become office and retail. Still no real signs of work though......

looking down cary along Tobacco Row

View of the skyline from lot in front of Edgeworth...the end of the floodwall is in the foreground

American Tobacco Center:

Large surface lot across from the new PM research site....any guesses as to why this site is also being fenced off????

Philip Morris Research Facility site...they have done a lot of site work and lowered the ground considerably

This building is beautiful...I wish it could be restored into something. I'm sure it won't be long before that happens.

Federal Courthouse site is coming along well!!!

That's all folks!

[eandslee]

Those photos were awesome! Thanks again man. You have no clue what that means to a guy who currently lives over 2000 miles away from his home! It's great to see those projects moving along. It won't be long before we see steal being erected at the federal courthouse site. In addition, there will probably be another tall crane at the PM site fairly soon too. Richmond is moving up! Sweet!