Nine months later Brady Square just sits there
Sep 10, 2024 | by John M.
Work at Dakota Partners’ Brady Square stopped in December of 2023 due to subcontractors being owed more than $1 million. The community that was scheduled to be completed this year now sits vacant and deteriorating.
The 264 unit affordable housing development on Lynhaven just east of Bellemeade was the recipient of “nearly $10.5 million investment from city tax dollars and the Virginia Housing Agency”, including $1,700,000 from the city of Richmond.
As raggedy as this looks, the photos don’t do it justice. There are approximately 20 apartment buildings on weedy lots on dirt roads that are starting to really get washed away. There are tools and equipment just left where they were last used. It feels criminal.
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Where is the mayor in all this? He talks the talk but does not walk the walk if he is not working towards a solution
I grew up there that land fertil and needs
Some thing new
Distressing. But then, it was the site of another failed multi-family project once, too. We in PDR had a lot of initial concerns, but the development team addressed many of the concerns and actually, the design actually looked pretty good. Hope City is working on this as the continued decay will make finishing even more challenging.
I didn’t realize Richmond… well RVA… has so much money to waste!!! Unbelievable!
The cost of housing is far too expensive for this community to just be sitting here unfinished. It’s a smack in the face. What are our city of officials doing about this?
Wow…..it would be a community dedicated to affordable housing that falls apart so close to the finish line. ATP, CITY OF RICHMOND should step in buy the entire project and take control. It would be awesome to have something affordable geared towards singles
With all the people in need of Housing, this project needs to be taken over and finished so the people in need can have housing before winter gets bad. Wake up Richmond government and take the reign.