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Explore Your City: North Side Neighborhoods
Featuring Barton Heights, Battery Park & Highland Park
Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods Director David Herring addresses Explore Your City: Northside Neighborhoods participants.
At the Explore Your City: North Side Neighborhoods event, Councilpersons Ellen Robertson and Chris Hilbert of the 6th and 3rd Districts respectively gave welcoming remarks to a packed house, speaking about revitalization efforts that are currently 
underway in North Side. Explore Your City participants then took part in an engaging talk about the growth of Richmond's earliest streetcar suburbs -- Barton Heights, Battery Park and Highland Park -- delivered by Bill Martin, Director of the Valentine Richmond History Center. Alliance Director David Herring then introduced the Explore Your City property booklet, detailing the foreclosed and vacant homes in the three featured neighborhoods, and providing information about how to acquire and renovate these architecturally impressive residences.
To view a PDF of the 2010 Explore Your City property booklet, CLICK HERE.
To obtain your own copy, email info@richmondneighborhoods.org or call (804) 644-5040.
The crowd dispersed late in the morning, equipped with maps and information about a 
series of ten open houses in a series of Barton Heights and Battery Park residences, which were held in collaboration with the Explore Your City program. A second group converged to embark on a North Side Neighborhoods Historic Bike Tour, led by Alliance staff members Lane Pearson and Giles Harnsberger.
The eight-mile route circulated the North Side neighborhoods via the old streetcar lines along which early suburban residential 
communities developed. Special thanks to Tyler Potterfield of the City of Richmond Department of Planning & Development Review for generating the bike tour route. To view the Richmond Area Bicycling Association (RABA) coverage of the event CLICK HERE!
The Alliance worked with the Battery Park Civic Association and and the Southern Barton Heights Community Association to accomplish this event. The Alliance also thanks the Valentine Richmond History Center and the City of Richmond Dept. of Planning & Development Review for ongoing support.