Shockoe Bottom
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Shockoe Bottom is an area in Richmond, Virginia
, just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill
and Church Hill
, Shockoe Bottom contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.
More recent projects include:
Cedar Broad Apartments, 204-unit complex at 18th and Broad streets. The project also has room for 8448 square feet (784.8 m²) of retail space. Total Budget 19 million.
Cold Storage project, $50 million project of Historic Housing. North 18th, East Clay, East Marshall and Oliver Hill Way area. Five turn of the century warehouses being converted to 300 apartments.
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
, just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill
Shockoe Hill
Shockoe Hill is one of several hills on which much of the oldest portion of the City of Richmond, Virginia, U.S., was built. It extends from the downtown area, including where the state capitol complex sits, north almost a mile to a point where the hill falls off sharply to the winding path of...
and Church Hill
Church Hill
Church Hill, also known as the St. John's Church Historic District, is an Old and Historic District in Richmond, Virginia. This district encompasses the original land plat of the city of Richmond. Church Hill is the eastern terminus of Broad Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in the Richmond...
, Shockoe Bottom contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.
Redevelopment
It became a major nightlife, dining, and entertainment center in the last two decades of the 20th century. After centuries of periodic flooding by the James River, development was greatly stimulated by the completion of Richmond's James River Flood Wall in 1995. Ironically, the next flooding disaster came not from the river, but from Hurricane Gaston which brought extensive local tributary flooding along the basin of Shockoe Creek and did extensive damage to this area in 2004, with businesses being shut down and many buildings condemned.More recent projects include:
Cedar Broad Apartments, 204-unit complex at 18th and Broad streets. The project also has room for 8448 square feet (784.8 m²) of retail space. Total Budget 19 million.
Cold Storage project, $50 million project of Historic Housing. North 18th, East Clay, East Marshall and Oliver Hill Way area. Five turn of the century warehouses being converted to 300 apartments.