VCU Developments

[RVA-Is-The-Best]

http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2013/06/03/a-new-spot-to-noodle-around/

 

From BizSense.

 

Nothing that we don't already know, but apparently they're also planning an IPO...

[540_804]

This isn't directly related to VCU but I thought it was pretty funny/interesting:

 

If you've ever been to the new student apartments on Chamberlayne Ave (The Collegiate) you may have noticed a newer little convenience store called "VCU Market."

This store is, of course, not in any way affiliated with the school, though it shares the name and has signage in the VCU school colors, yellow and black.

 

I always thought that was pretty interesting; I would assume that would constitute some form of copyright infringement.

 

Well apparently, someone else thought the same. I assume VCU (and it's legal team) may have sent a strongly worded letter to the owner because I noticed today that much of the exterior signage has been...uh...altered.

 

The store is now simply known as "CU Market".

 

All of the Vs on the exterior signage had been removed.

[eandslee]

This isn't directly related to VCU but I thought it was pretty funny/interesting:

 

If you've ever been to the new student apartments on Chamberlayne Ave (The Collegiate) you may have noticed a newer little convenience store called "VCU Market."

This store is, of course, not in any way affiliated with the school, though it shares the name and has signage in the VCU school colors, yellow and black.

 

I always thought that was pretty interesting; I would assume that would constitute some form of copyright infringement.

 

Well apparently, someone else thought the same. I assume VCU (and it's legal team) may have sent a strongly worded letter to the owner because I noticed today that much of the exterior signage has been...uh...altered.

 

The store is now simply known as "CU Market".

 

All of the Vs on the exterior signage had been removed.

Funny!

[wrldcoupe4]

Construction on VCU's new Children's Pavilion is well underway:

 

source: Style Weekly

 

Slated to be completed in 2015:

[wrldcoupe4]

The James W. and Frances C. McGothlin Medical Education Center is now complete.

 

 

Recently, a jewel by a 21st-century starchitect has been set comfortably into this architectural diadem. It's a crystallinelike high rise, the James W. and Frances C. McGlothlin Medical Education Center at the VCU School of Medicine.

 

Designed by the internationally prominent firm of Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners of New York, the 200,000-square-foot building with 12 floors injects needed vitality to the previously dour, overbuilt and architecturally underwhelming medical campus at 12th and Marshall streets. And it provides a surprising complement to its immediate neighbor to the south, the stolid, red-brick West Hospital. This architectural pairing looks great.

http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/architecture-review-life-of-pei/Content?oid=1909549

Edited June 23, 2013 by wrldcoupe4

[RVA-Is-The-Best]

Nothing much to this site, other than I'm hoping the builder finishes it. It's for "The Square", that multi-story high rise on Shafer and Grace for VCU.

 

http://thesquareapartments.com/

[RVA-Is-The-Best]

In reality, I think it's a VUU project, but there isn't a dedicated topic thread for that
 

A developer is hoping to bring a new student housing project to VUU students on a rather ugly lot on Brook Road, across from the university "dividing line", one he considers as Brook Road, the line between VUU and the industrial, commercial and residential properties.

 

http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2013/07/16/student-housing-plan-is-back-and-bigger/

[Shakman]

Nothing much to this site, other than I'm hoping the builder finishes it. It's for "The Square", that multi-story high rise on Shafer and Grace for VCU.

 

http://thesquareapartments.com/

While traveling on southbound I-95, I saw a tower crane in the vicinity of this highrise. 

Edited July 21, 2013 by Shakman

[wrldcoupe4]

Yep. The crane is up.

[540_804]

I wish we could get a few more cranes to dot the skyline.

 

Also, the pit for the construction at MCV is massive. Probably one of the deepest i've ever seen in Richmond.

[wrldcoupe4]

We should have 2 more this year.

[TBurban]

We should have 2 more this year.

 

Children's Hospital and First Freedom Center or Gateway Plaza?

[Brent]

The crane is going up at the Children's Pavillan!

[eandslee]

Awesome!  Thanks for the report!

[Shakman]

Is this a tower crane you are referencing?  If so, some pics against the skyline would be nice. 

[Brent]

It is a tower crane.

It doesn't really show up on the skyline (too many buildings around it). You can see it coming in from the east, that's about it.

[eandslee]

The tower crane for this project is, surprisingly, not that tall.  Ryan posted a photo on his Richmondcitywatch Facebook account the other day (go there and "like" his page for photo updates in the future).  Here's a link to his page (scroll down just a bit...you can't miss it):  https://www.facebook.com/richmondcitywatch

[Brent]

The crane is taller than that now. It can clear the building to the eat of the site. It was supper short for a few days. I assumed that the height would grow with the building. I was surprised to see it at its current height.

[eandslee]

The crane is taller than that now. It can clear the building to the eat of the site. It was supper short for a few days. I assumed that the height would grow with the building. I was surprised to see it at its current height.

 

That's good to hear...so it's taller than Sanger Hall?  We need a new photo now.  Perhaps Ryan caught that photo as they were building the tower up to its current height.  Thanks for the update, Brent!

[Brent]

Yep, taller than Sanger now.

[Icetera]

From Rocketts:

 

 

[eandslee]

Thanks for the photos Icetera!  You can see the tower crane just in front of City Hall!  Yep, definitely taller than Sanger Hall!  Looks good in the Richmond skyline!

[RVA-Is-The-Best]

When James Cabell Library opened in 1975, it was originally designed to serve a 17,000 student body, hold 1 million volumes and seat 2,000 students. Now it serves a 32,000 student body, holds 2 million volumes, and seats almost half that due to lack of space.

 

VCU's response?

 

A brand new addition/extension of the building and overhaul of the existing library from the inside. Everything from the seating to the Starbucks will be expanded.

 

Check out the news from RVANews reported today as well as VCU's official page on the expansion:

 

http://rvanews.com/news/vcu-unveils-plans-for-50-million-library/103013

 

http://www.library.vcu.edu/new-library/

[RVA-Is-The-Best]

Oh, and VCU's building binge for dorms isn't a sleeping giant either. BizSense, the TimesDispatch and the Commonwealth Times (the student run school newspaper for VCU) all have reports about mainly the high rises going up on Grace, the retail boom filling the ground level spaces, and a mixed-use development that would be built on that 500 Academic Centre on Grace/Harrison corner.

 

http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2013/09/27/vcu-has-two-more-dorms-on-deck/

http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/education/college/vcu-to-build-new-dorms-offer-online-courses/article_30d1c226-acdc-5cca-bd6b-653fb0efcbaf.html

http://www.commonwealthtimes.org/2013/09/23/board-approves-construction-of-two-upperclassmen-residence-halls/

[eandslee]

This is very welcome news...I just wonder what these 2 five-story buildings will look like.  Go to see some more parking lots being converted to buildings!