This 1968 Wayne Commission recommendation shows Virginia Commonwealth University first taking Monroe Park and eventually taking all of Oregon Hill. Obviously, this is why VCU will still not give their neighbors in Oregon Hill a memorandum of understanding that the university will not encroach further into Oregon Hill.
There’s no doubt that one of Richmond300’s main unstated goals was to lay the groundwork for eradicating this small historic neighborhood that occupies increasingly valuable high ground real estate.
I am so ashamed of and amazed of, how this was stolen property, actually stolen from an unaware community. This justs proves how much greed there was from and continues now, from “Educated Professionals”, !!!!!!
Every time I see this, it seems like there’s a solution of sorts: give VCU all the air rights over the downtown expressway, but with some sort of agreement, deed covenants or other mechanism barring the college from purchasing more land (in the current city limits? In specific neighborhoods? Something). There’s plenty if empty space there – just deck over the highway – it’s just that no one seems to have the imagination to see it.