From the RTD this morning. Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority is indeed distancing our historic neighborhood from it’s past.

As excavators claw at the earth in Richmond’s Fulton neighborhood, a sign announces “another revitalization project of RRHA.”

Four decades after it demolished and displaced virtually an entire community, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s body of work in Fulton more resembles an interment than a revitalization. So those who remember Fulton before urban renewal aren’t turning cartwheels over the clearing of land for 26 new single-family homes — the second phase of a project that will add 58 homes to Fulton but further distance this historic neighborhood from its past.

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The December 2009 issue of the RRHA’s HOPE VI newsletter (PDF) has info on plans for 71 new houses for Fulton:

HOPE VI Project Manager L. Dexter Goode is looking forward to the launch of Phase II in Fulton Village which he expects to begin soon after January 1, 2010. RRHA has enlisted Health-E Community Enterprises LLC to undertake construction at the site. Phase II will add 26 homes to the existing Fulton development, as well as 45 houses that will be sold to market-rate buyers. This new initiative is designed to attract first-time homebuyers — individuals who have not owned a home within the past 18 months or longer.

Richmond.com’s Ask the Mayor takes a look at Fulton Gas Works and the old Continental Can factory.

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