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Shockoe Institute breaks ground on Main Street Station educational center
On Thursday — the 160th anniversary of Union troops marching into Richmond — the Shockoe Institute broke ground on an educational center that CEO Marland Buckner said would help guests better understand “the evolution of our history and slavery’s role in it, and in particular, Richmond’s role in the domestic slave trade.”
The center, which is slated to open next year at Main Street Station, is part of a long-term plan to develop a 10-acre section of Shockoe Valley into a historical site commemorating the neighborhood’s legacy as an epicenter of the slave trade in the antebellum South.
Local government officials — including Richmond Mayor Danny Avula and his predecessor, Levar Stoney — joined officials from the Shockoe Institute for the ceremony, signing a construction beam and inviting guests to test an augmented reality exhibit that lets visitors see what Lumpkin’s Jail looked like in the 1800s.
BizSense Beat: Ice rink, Chesterfield plant shutdown, new restaurants
BizSense Beat is a weekly collaboration between VPM News and Richmond BizSense that recaps the region’s top business stories.
This week, BizSense reporter Jack Jacobs joins host Lyndon German to talk about plans for an 89,000-square-foot ice hockey facility in Chesterfield County, the shutdown of an aluminum plant in Chesterfield and new restaurant options coming to Manchester and Midlothian.
