Despite community and preservationists concerns, and with Friday Cheers over for the season, it looks like Venture Richmond has started on the unneeded amphitheater project, doing irreparable damage to this incredibly important historic resource. Alternatives, such as putting Venture Richmond’s largest stage on Brown’s Island, already leased to Venture Richmond, were ignored. There is a large “thumb” bucket backhoe on the canal berm knocking down trees and scouring the dirt. Trucks are dumping fill dirt below the canal berm. And, still no word on replacing the illegally demolished wall.
Probably prepping for the fireworks.
I thought Belle Isle was the launch site.
You are right Scott. I hadn’t realized things had gotten that far. Of course the canal is not being destroyed, but preserved and will be in better shape than much of what remains of the canal.
Paul, we have covered this. Venture Richmond, in doing this, is destroying the historic and possibly the structural integrity of this canal, which may be Richmond’s most important constructed feature of the 18th and 19th centuries. I am not going to put up with much more of your purposeful disinformation.