Talk of the Point

Everything was going along so smoothly for Point Richmond Gateway, LLC, and now this. Correspondent Walter Connolly was up late one night, thinking…

I drew up an alternative location for the Trainmaster Building that keeps Cutting Blvd open and has parking for the Plunge…I was thinking about 3 a.m. one morning and thought why not draw […]

As if the recent news from New Orleans weren’t bad enough, on Saturday morning I thought all over again about disasters that will sooner or later fall upon us here.

I attended my first REACT class, taught by Sandi Genser-Maack. “Richmond Emergency Action Community Teams” training is all part of an ongoing program offered free by […]

Walter Connolly, who reminds us he is not a “simple” architect, further wants to know what this means on the June 7 City Council agenda:

I-6. RESOLUTION - authorizing execution of a Disposition and Development Agreement and an assignment of the City’s option for the purchase of the Plunge parcel to Point Richmond Gateway, LLC - […]

Yesterday, the Point’s city councilman Tom Butt asked the city clerk to put closing of the fire station on the December 2 agenda. That leaves nine days for the Point Richmond Neighborhood Council to organize a mass showing. Are you nervous?

In Butt’s memo he asks the logical questions–why is it closing?, when?, what alternatives were […]

As if we didn’t need another anecdote about the fire station’s importance to the Point. Here comes Mike Nova, the Rosamaria’s Cafe owner. He had just sat through today’s business associaton meeting where he listened to the uproar over the station’s expected closing.

Outside Hotel Mac, a Hidden City Cafe cook told him about […]

Here’s Donald Wardlaw, the Bank of Richmond building renovation architect, on my approval of the colors the arrival of Shellie Bourgault’s Hidden City Cafe.

Glad you find the colors more pleasing. I have not had any doubts that they would get better with time. Wait till you see it with Shellie’s restaurant inside. Her place is […]

Astounding news reached me yesterday that not everyone agreed with me on the Bank of Richmond building’s red look. Earlier this month I said I didn’t like it. Now it seems that some people always liked the deep red and also appreciated its historic roots.

Then yesterday the copper cone took shape, and I have to […]

There are quirky parts of street life in the Point that I’m used to. Then there’s the stuff I still have to get used to.

I’ve come to expect the little piles of dry cat food poured by some kind person for the homeless cats. Or the stained glass artist on the corner straining to make […]

There’s a new Web site in town with news of the Point. Now, before you gasp and wonder aloud how in the world the Point can support yet another news site, please listen: I say the more the merrier.

Consider the facts: With 3000 residents, the Point is too small to support a full-time reporter. Yet […]

What’s that paint on the new Bank of Richmond building? Is it primer? Is it a mistake? Is there enough concrete to support it? Whatever it is, I hear it’s not what the Design Review Board approved.

Mark Howe, the developer, says the board did not stipulate any particular colors. But then he intimates that he’s […]