Henrico County lawmakers have approved the construction of a bridge over Interstate 95 that is expected to increase connectivity to a growing part of the county. It will also serve as another artery for the $2.3 billion GreenCity eco-district once it is completed.
Magellan Parkway will be expanded to cross over the interstate, creating access from Brook Road into the area where GreenCity is planned.
Two projects were approved — an $18.5 million project for the construction of the bridge and a second $14.4 million extension of Magellan Parkway.
The new four-lane bridge across the highway will replace the smaller, much older Scott Road bridge about a half mile south on the interstate. It has been in disrepair and has long outlived its useful life, having been built around 1962.
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Henrico County approved the construction of a bridge to cross interstate 95 at Magellan Parkway. It will give access from Brook Road to the nearby GreenCity development.
Henrico County
“When it was built, the Scott Road bridge was a fairly low-volume road. It served maybe 20 houses and had a small amount of cut-through traffic. It didn’t really serve a lot of trips,” said Terrell Hughes director of the Department of Public Works.
The Scott Road Bridge was hit by a truck about a year ago, Hughes said, and it has been closed ever since. The new bridge will meet modern standards with a minimum height of 16.5 feet. The Scott Road Bridge was built at about 14.5 feet.
Henrico Public Works has a separate initiative to turn the dilapidated Scott Road bridge into a pedestrian and biking bridge that will later connect to the Fall Line Trail. Hughes said the county already has some of the funds in place to do that project. The pedestrian bridge would also increase access to the GreenCity area.
Development continues in the area. On the eastern side of the new bridge construction, home builder Stanley Martin recently finished a 202-home neighborhood just off Magellan Parkway.
“A lot of (bridge usage) depends on development and growth,” Hughes said. “There is other developable land in the area.”
The four-lane bridge should accommodate between 15,000 and 30,000 cars per day. The current schedule says bridge construction will start in May, and will be completed in October 2025.
In December 1968, the first licenses since 1916 for the legal sale of mixed liquors by the drink in Richmond were issued. Here, waiter James Smith served the first cocktails in the city to Fred Runyan (left) and Paul D. Bailey at the Hotel John Marshall’s Captain’s Grill restaurant.
- Joe Colognori
8/10/2015: This January 1967 image shows the new Bull & Bear Club, located on the 23rd floor of the Fidelity Bankers Life Building at Ninth and Main streets in Richmond. Among other amenities, members enjoyed an intimate lounge area where they could monitor the New York Stock Exchange via a ticker behind the bar. The club, which later moved to the James Center, closed in May 2015.
- Don Pennell RTD Staff
In April 1968, David Long manned the bar at an exhibit at a Virginia Restaurant Association convention, and Barbara Ann Brigel took a spot along the brass rail. That year, the General Assembly allowed whiskey-by-the-drink to become a local option in Virginia.
- Colognori
In April 1969, C. Ronald Spindler, the instructor at the Virginia School of Professional Bartending in Richmond, mixed a martini. Liquor by the drink had become legal in Richmond in the previous December, and Spindler (who also was director of beverage services at a Holiday Inn) had quickly taught more than 100 budding bartenders. His courses, which lasted 2½ weeks, focused on what he called “the 48 basic cocktails” – with the martini at the top of the list.
- Staff photo
In January 1969, Kimberly Farmer mixed a drink at Michael’s, a restaurant on Fifth Street in Richmond. Liquor by the drink had become legal in Richmond the month before, and she was among about a half-dozen women who had recently taken local bartending jobs. Farmer previously worked as a bartender in Miami and New Orleans. “A lot of people who have read too many paperback novels think of a bartender as a low-class person without morals, but 90 percent of the girls I’ve ever worked with at a bar are happily married women with families,” she said.
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10-16-1968 (cutline): Bartender mixes drink aboard Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 'Food Bar Car' during stop at Richmond's Main Street Station. Virginia's first legal drink of hard liquor in more than 50 years was sold aboard the train at 1:28 p.m. Thursday.
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In December 1968, the first licenses since 1916 for the legal sale of mixed liquors by the drink in Richmond were issued. Here, waiter James Smith served the first cocktails in the city to Fred Runyan (left) and Paul D. Bailey at the Hotel John Marshall’s Captain’s Grill restaurant.
- Joe Colognori
8/10/2015: This January 1967 image shows the new Bull & Bear Club, located on the 23rd floor of the Fidelity Bankers Life Building at Ninth and Main streets in Richmond. Among other amenities, members enjoyed an intimate lounge area where they could monitor the New York Stock Exchange via a ticker behind the bar. The club, which later moved to the James Center, closed in May 2015.
- Don Pennell RTD Staff
In April 1968, David Long manned the bar at an exhibit at a Virginia Restaurant Association convention, and Barbara Ann Brigel took a spot along the brass rail. That year, the General Assembly allowed whiskey-by-the-drink to become a local option in Virginia.
- Colognori
In April 1969, C. Ronald Spindler, the instructor at the Virginia School of Professional Bartending in Richmond, mixed a martini. Liquor by the drink had become legal in Richmond in the previous December, and Spindler (who also was director of beverage services at a Holiday Inn) had quickly taught more than 100 budding bartenders. His courses, which lasted 2½ weeks, focused on what he called “the 48 basic cocktails” – with the martini at the top of the list.
- Staff photo
In January 1969, Kimberly Farmer mixed a drink at Michael’s, a restaurant on Fifth Street in Richmond. Liquor by the drink had become legal in Richmond the month before, and she was among about a half-dozen women who had recently taken local bartending jobs. Farmer previously worked as a bartender in Miami and New Orleans. “A lot of people who have read too many paperback novels think of a bartender as a low-class person without morals, but 90 percent of the girls I’ve ever worked with at a bar are happily married women with families,” she said.
- P.A. Gormus, Jr.
09-03-1981: Bartenders serve drinks at local bar.
- Staff photo
06-03-1985: Two women enjoy a drink at the Tobacco Company Bar.
- Don Long
03-15-1985 (cutline): Happy hour drinks served at local bar.
- Staff photo
10-16-1968 (cutline): Bartender mixes drink aboard Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 'Food Bar Car' during stop at Richmond's Main Street Station. Virginia's first legal drink of hard liquor in more than 50 years was sold aboard the train at 1:28 p.m. Thursday.
- Amir Pishdad
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- Staff photo
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- Staff photo
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