The Maggie Walker Land Trust has received three (3) bids for the development of the empty lot at the end of W 19th/W 20th Streets facing Semmes Ave. The City had previously transferred ownership to the Maggie Walker Land Trust. “The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust seeks to develop and steward permanently affordable housing opportunities to foster racially equitable communities” from their website.

Below is the link to Virtual Meeting and/or comments intended for the organizations making bids and residents in the area around the proposed development. The Meeting Time is set for April 18th at 5:30 PM via Zoom. There is also an option to leave a comment before the meeting at this link, as well

as the full proposal documents for each bid (FYI there are other properties around the city also included in this meeting):

https://www.richmondlandbank.com/next-meeting

You can join discussion on this with the wider neighborhood through the Springhill Neighborhood Association Facebook Group or the Springhill Email List. Jason Hendricks has already sent out an email to the group & made a Facebook Post.

Richmond BizSense published an article today 4/14/23 with additional information.

If there is interest we can have a quick meeting or chat about this over the weekend or Monday evening – feel free to get in touch.

Here is an overview of the three proposals from the meeting agenda (please visit the meeting link to see each individual proposal in detail).