I rent from Legend too and just renewed my lease. My rent went from $1189 to $1299. A pretty significant jump. And they don’t allow you to renew for two years anymore, just one. I’ve rented from them for 9 years and this is the first time my rent jumped more than 4% and haven’t allowed 2 year renewals.

In my heart.

Legend has it the fire is still burning to this day...

I agree, this can work. I have family in Hanover who do this now several times a week. (And another to Petersburg from Hanover which is basically the same commute time). If you’re taking I-95 a lot can depend on which exit you need to get off, but typically budget 40/45 mins for the drive.

If you don't mind ground floor with large patio, my lease is coming to an end soon. 2/2 with huge windows and sliding doors right next to the river. Good amenities in building too. Am even selling some furniture should you need it. I'm not renewing because I'm moving out of country. =)

I was a senior at VCU at the time. Here are some photos I took that day and a day or two later of the aftermath.

https://imgur.com/a/0fjcAdm

They aren't timber frame , they're platform framed out of dimensional lumber, not as robust as concrete or steel, but keep it dry ( exterior maintenance) and it should hold up fine. People need places to live and i assume this cuts building expense , not having the heavy duty steel i beam or concrete construction. It won't last as long as pyramids but it doesn't need to. And there are very old wood structures around, i feel like the longevity of a building has a lot to do with care and upkeep. I work in the fan on old houses and i assure you it takes a huge budget and an army of tradespeople to keep those things from totally falling apart. The new apartment buildings probably aren't meant to last a hundred years, they can always be pulled down and rebuilt. Who knows how people will want to use the space that far in the future? Not sure what glue you mean, like in the plywood?

Put it on 19 th in shockoe. There is a motorcycle there with tags expired in 2020 that they haven't touched

>If I remember, cars were cooked in the parking deck across the street,

They were. I had a friend that was parked on the side of the West Broad Deck closest to the fire and her car was totaled.

In other news the traffic engineers in central VA continue to make stupid fucking decisions

Ours went up by 50%, we moved.

12% 🙃

I was there ab hour ago and was completely unaware that there had been a fire. It didn’t leave anything noticeable.

This would have never happened if they had just left that lot a Hardee’s.

Related to pipes… if the cold weather extremes extend to warm climates, pipes won’t stand a chance. I watched Austin’s MFH world implode when every building had catastrophic pipe bursting because they didn’t insulate for that kind of weather. It was apocalyptic feeling hearing all of the fire alarms going off for days, no water.

I worked at SERL and lived on Broad. That fire was crazy.

That's the one the union owns now.

7%

I use to make that commute daily when I lived in Hanover, it wasn't terrible. (And I liked Stafford lol) . Of course I lived right off chamberlayne/301, Id just drive straight up that way and avoid most the highway mess and hop onto 17 once I got up there.

Man i remember that! I was at Harrison street coffee shop and walked down to grace and stood near plaza art and you could feel the heat from it, it was intense. Just crowds watching

I was flying home that day we could see the smoke from way out.

Society is so fucked and wealth is so stratified that we began building tenaments again.

In decades when the first time renters of these units are long gone and no one can remember they were once “new luxury apartments “ they will be full of poor families who will be cooked alive as neglected pipes and aging wood and glue fail.

This is funny but, I think California, Florida and New York would like to enter this race.

9% and I’m grateful it wasn’t more

They don’t really back up traffic because they sit in their own lane before eventually going straight to the turn lane for the next intersection. Maybe intentionally it feeds right into it