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January 29, 2013 News & Features » Cover Story

Inward and Upward 

West Broad Village is the Richmond area's first significant embrace of new urbanism. Here's what Short Pump got right.

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So what if the place is slightly surreal, as if Disneyland's Main Street, USA, really were a place where you could live and work? Forget all the naysayers. I have seen the future and it is West Broad Village. For decades,…

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