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The Community Proposal to Save Shockoe Bottom
- Forum Journal
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Volume 31, Number 3, Spring 2017
- pp. 30-39
- 10.1353/fmj.2017.a666788
- Article
- Additional Information
National Trust for Historic Preservation Senior Field Director and Attorney Rober Nieweg interviews the leaders of a series of advocacy campaigns to save Richmond’s former slave trade center, Shockoe Bottom. Representing several advocacy groups, the interviewees discuss the process of defeating a proposal to build a baseball stadium on the site, as well as the community-generated proposal to build a memorial garden.