RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In a significant departure from the demolition plans previously shared by the university, Virginia Union University (VUU) announced Tuesday that it will be preserving the entirety of the old Richmond Community Hospital in Richmond’s Northside.
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, VUU provided its “final development plans” for new student housing on its campus — which included an update on the fate of the old Richmond Community Hospital.
This piece of history was the first Black-owned hospital in Richmond , established in 1907 by Sarah Garland Jones, the first Black woman in Virginia to earn a medical license. It sits on Overbrook Road in Richmond’s Northside, on land owned by VUU…