Three big projects under way along 21st Street and Broad Street will bring almost 500 apartments and more than 13,000 square feet of retail space to the area where Church Hill and Shockoe meet.

An email to area civic association leaders from Kerry Johnson, a Virginia Environmental Officer in the HUD Richmond Field Office, about the proposed project in the 1800 block of East Broad (AKA Cedar-Broad, BKA the parking lot behind the McDonald’s) asserts that “this proposed project could have an adverse effect on historic property in its area of potential effect” but also that the “would be complementary to the neighborhood” and would return “the square block to its historic residential status”.

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The image above of the proposed development at Cedar & Broad Streets was shown at the SBNA meeting last night. Much thanks to Walter Parks Architect for the presentation and the rendering.

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I crashed the Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Association meeting this evening at the soon-to-open Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant and it was super informative. If you’re neighbor a or business owner in the area and want to stay in the know, you should really be making it out for these every-3rd-Monday meetings.

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There will be a meeting tonight on the project proposed for Cedar and Broad. The meeting will be held 5:30-6:30PM @ Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant (formerly Wildcats).

We’ve heard about a development proposed for Cedar/Broad/18th/Marshall that could be *big*. It would be mixed use, residential and commercial, to wrap around McDonald’s and use the rest of the block, and 3 to 4 stories. There will be a meeting for a special use permit Monday, January 21 at 7PM at American Tobacco Center community room, with materials on the proposed project available at the meeting. This area is in that particular cut-away corner that is *not* in the Shockoe Valley O&H district, btw.