RICHMOND, Va. — Former Creighton Court residents received gold keys Tuesday morning as they stood before their new apartments at Creighton Renaissance, marking another milestone in Richmond’s public housing transformation.
The ceremony drew Richmond Mayor Danny Avula, State Sen. Lamont Bagby and longtime housing advocate Dr. Cynthia Newbille to celebrate the second major lease-up at the revitalized East End community.
“We know that the public housing stock in Richmond really for a couple of decades has not been in the shape that it needs to be, and this is more evidence that we’re moving things in the right direction,” Avula said…