The former site of the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue has been closed for more than two years. It finally reopened, but some feel shut out.
RICHMOND — Earl Gary pushed a wheelbarrow full of yellow-flowered tickseed, stopping every so often to drop a plant into the earth along the edge of the traffic circle where protesters once marched and sang and sprayed graffiti.the iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from this site in 2021, leaving a barren field surrounded by a chain-link fence and a concrete Jersey wall.
“I think there needs to be a deliberative thought process … which will take into account varied interests and will respect all the various parties involved,” Lantz said. Then-governor Ralph Northam asked the General Assembly to earmark more than $10 million for an City officials call the landscaping a temporary solution until someone can come up with a long-term plan. Stoney — who is Black and has 16 months left as mayor before term limits kick in — said he’s turning his attention to another part of the city: Shockoe Bottom, near downtown, where plans are in the works for a major museum recognizing Richmond’s past as a center of the slave trade.
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