Outdoors
Science Museum of Virginia adding a parking deck and green space
The parking deck is cool and all, but what’s really exciting is all the green space that will be added in front of the Children’s Museum of Richmond.
As you can see from the drawing above the addition of the 400-space parking deck between the Children’s Museum of Virginia and the Science Museum of Virginia frees up the front of the Children’s Museum for an impressive front lawn. At least that’s one plan.
The plans, which currently are in the concept stage, also call for turning the existing parking lot in front of the two museums into a park-like green space.
“It’s been a delight to watch this resurgence of Scott’s Addition. The best museums kind of reflect back the aspirations of the community that they are in,” Richard Conti, chief wonder officer at the museum, said Wednesday morning at a meeting of the Scott’s Addition Boulevard Association.
“We discovered in order to really use our property and our site to leverage the best of what’s around us, we have to figure out parking, so we have a parking deck under design,” Conti said.
A parking deck would allow the museum to “scrape up all that asphalt along Broad Street and really create a grand civic green space,” Conti said, explaining the nature of the project to the Scott’s Addition business owners and residents meeting at Paisley & Jade, a vintage and specialty rental business on West Moore Street.
