UR Downtown closing in 2021
The University of Richmond chose to not renew the lease for the UR Downtown site and permanently closed the Richmond on Broad Cafe in summer 2020.
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The University of Richmond chose to not renew the lease for the UR Downtown site and permanently closed the Richmond on Broad Cafe in summer 2020.
University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University joined together at UR Downtown on March 18 for a night of music, fun and Krispy Kreme donuts.
Ray Slaughter, an accounting professor at University of Richmond, requires students in his Federal Taxation class to volunteer with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program at UR Downtown.
A traveling historical exhibit at University of Richmond Downtown has not been as popular as its organizers had hoped, but the events surrounding it have thrived.
Since its establishment in March 2009, UR Downtown has expanded to include the Richmond on Broad Cafe, the School of Professional and Continuing Studies' Partners in the Arts program and a new basement-level gallery and presentation space.
UR Downtown, home to several of the University of Richmond's community-based learning programs and the Richmond on Broad cafe, has received a new sign, and staff will be initiating additional programming thanks to an $825,000 endowment from Rob Blandford and his wife, Nancy Everett.
After a summer of brainstorming, University Communications employees unveiled a personalized RVA design this school year as a visual representation of the University of Richmond's connection to the city, said Cheryl Spain. Spain is the manager for internal communications services and directed the project.
The new Richmond on Broad Cafe will give students a way to use their dining dollars as they contribute to the university's presence downtown, said Bettie Clarke, executive director of campus dining.
The University of Richmond has invested more than $14 million in campus upgrades, including $2.5 million towards library improvements and $5 million in the construction of a new Student Activities Complex.
SpokenSilence, University of Richmond's only creative writing club, hosted its first event of the year, a poetry jam, in the Brown-Alley Room of Weinstein Hall, Friday, Feb. 24. The program, co-hosted by the Cultural Advisers, featured an open mic for all Richmond and Westhampton students to share any sort of creative writing, including raps, songs and other verse.
Kim Dean, UR Downtown's new project director, said she hoped to make the University of Richmond's downtown space an extension of campus for undergraduate students in the coming years.
Student leaders from almost fifty campus organizations gathered Tuesday night to engage in a candid discussion with President Edward L. Ayers and other university officials on the state of relations between the University of Richmond and the City of Richmond.
When I received my writing assignment for The Collegian last week, I glanced at it and saw something about art and some place called UR Downtown.
On the summery night of April 2, First Fridays East connected First Fridays Art Walk to Richmond's eastern corridor and drew in an even larger crowd than last month, including President Edward Ayers.
Where can a University of Richmond student spend a night wandering through rooms full of intriguing artwork while tasting delicious food and becoming a socialite? Two UR Downtown coordinators hope that the answer is First Fridays East.
Last Tuesday marked Earline Roots' 12th anniversary as a Heilman Dining Center cook. Throughout each of those years she has relied on the Route 16 bus to get to and from work, unless she could find a carpool. But come January 2010, the route reduction within the Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC) will change that.
Downtown Richmond's second-annual InLight Festival Fright night transformed the area from East Broad to East Grace streets into a luminescent exhibition of contemporary art.
Twenty students gathered at UR Downtown's Open House last Friday to explore the newly renovated building, understanding its programs and learn about the University of Richmond's goal of engaging and educating in the heart of Richmond.
A New York University professor, an intellectual property lawyer and a former Supreme Court clerk were hired during the summer by the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law, filling one vacancy and creating two new positions.
Nestled in the corner of Seventh and East Broad streets in downtown Richmond stands the brick-and-stone front of the renovated Franklin Federal Savings and Loan building, now home to the University of Richmond satellite campus, UR Downtown.