Lynchburg - Virginia - 4K Downtown Drive
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Afternoon drive around the city of Lynchburg, VA.
Filmed: December 2020
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From Wikipedia:
Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 75,568, estimated to have risen to 82,168 as of 2019. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills" or the "Hill City". In the 1860s, Lynchburg was the only major city in Virginia that was not recaptured by the Union before the end of the American Civil War.
Lynchburg lies at the center of a wider metropolitan area close to the geographic center of Virginia. It is the fifth-largest MSA in Virginia, with a population of 260,320. It is the site of several institutions of higher education, including Virginia University of Lynchburg, Randolph College, University of Lynchburg, Central Virginia Community College and Liberty University. Nearby cities include Roanoke, Charlottesville, and Danville.
Liberty University, founded in 1971 as Lynchburg Baptist College and renamed in 1985, is one of the state's largest institutions of higher education and the largest employer in the Lynchburg region. The university states that it generates over $1 billion in economic impact to the Lynchburg area annually.
Lynchburg has ten recognized historic districts, four of them in the downtown residential area. Since 1971, 40 buildings have been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Especially since 2002, downtown Lynchburg has undergone significant revitalization, with hundreds of new loft apartments created through adaptive reuse of historic warehouses and mills. Since 2000, downtown has attracted private investments of more than $110 million, and business activity increased by 205% from 2004 to 2014. In 2014, 75 new apartment units were added to downtown, with 155 further units under construction, increasing the number of housing units downtown by 48% from 2010 to 2014.
In 2015, the $5.8 million Lower Bluffwalk pedestrian street zone opened. Notable projects underway in downtown by the end of 2015 include the $25 million Virginian Hotel restoration project, a $16.6 million restoration of the Academy Center of the Arts, and $4.6 million expansion of Amazement Square Children's Museum.
Lived here for 3 YEARS. WORKED IN the schools. LOVE this place. I just may over back. Now that the kids are older. This is a good surprise. Thank you
No problem!
Everyone loves VA for being a small town state but it won't be a small town state if y'all keep moving here lol.
There's no vibe no life it's a dead feel
Drove right by my street 16th and filmore. I almost cried cuz I moved after my fiance died. Bring back so many memories
I was just scrolling around RUclips and came across your video but have you thought about updating it since the roads have change mainly downtown now Church and Main are now two-way streets.
good ole lynchburg, so many skateboard trips taken there
August 19th 2021 i took my mother to see her sister my aunt its Sunday very quiet i wanted to see the Academy of arts in Lynchburg a lot of hills i also wanted to Ride up the steep mountain were The L U monogram is but my aunt was feeling weezy in the stomach on Candler Mountain Road so I had to turn the vehicle around i love theses street steep challenging hills for bike ridings ...
Thanks for this video. This is downtown ? Where are the pubs, restaurants, shops, etc....it all looks so uninviting...run down...industrial. Roanoke seems to have much more to offer.
Looks like they're rebuilding it from what I could tell.
Roanoke have way more it’s nothing in this place for the youth or anyone else they do have a few bars in this old because people stay out in around well they not showing you all of Lynchburg only what they want you to see in this is just the downtown area I hate the day my family moved here glad I don’t have to stay anymore
Lynchburg is a dry town
@@MileageMikeTravels they just recently finished Main St now a 2 way road instead so weird not seeing road work on it for the first time in 15 years
@@dimples6524 do you think a video game lounge would survive here?
Kind of reminds me of Greenville, SC.
Nice city 😃
Was born there in 1952, moved away in 1959. Thanks for this video.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
The part of the video where the train tracks are, I saw my first train in 1956, this brought back some great memories. Thanks again.
@@joelovenbury4575 Where did you move away to? Do you like it?
I lived there for 33yrs. What a nightmare. I moved to sw Florida. Beautiful weather all year round. Beaches and lots of things to do. Lynchburg is so awful I will never plan on going back again.
Tell me more. Seriously. It's totally dead and ugly. What's it like to live there??
Oh wow you're my neck of the woods this is cool.
👠 was there 2 weeks attending a training seminar. Smh this has got to be one of the most "dismal" places in Virginia (or that I have ever seen)!! I know all cities have an area, that is nothing to "write home about", but damn the entire city was this way?!! No good resturants, no real form of entertainment, no diversity - nothing!! The only thing that I found redeeming was the fact that some of the residents AGREED that it was dreadful. Yet the MOUNTAINS and natural scenery is absolutely GORGEOUS!! That's it ! Go for the beautiful mountains🌸.
Believe it or not this city was once alive an thriving; the problem is the ole racist yt white folk an the police department they love ❤️ for the area to look gloomy an dismal. While they just built a $50 million police precinct there yes I said that correctly $50 MILLION. Get the them fuqs out of city council an the city will boom.
Lynchburg could be the next Roanoke. Alot like Danville, but more potential.
Wow, not much there. Kind of run down.
Mostly everything is on Wards Road and Liberty University imo
Come on down to the Hampton Roads area!! Upper va is nice though
I have some videos out there already: ruclips.net/p/PLnS3Ajs4YX_x2BURa3EcxI4fq0y9TuFCY
But I do want to get back soon as film Newport News and some other places there.
@@MileageMikeTravels do it! We’re building in certain places so it should be a bit different when you come back
Nice
The day you film this video is a holiday because the streets are so empty. Wow I wish I can have that here at California 😩😩
So, nobody lives there?? No cars, pedestrians, no dogs, kids, cats, nothing? The streets are all torn up with broken, cracked pavement and curbs, ancient houses and empty buildings. Looks like they dropped a neutron bomb on it. Where's the nice part of town?!? No department stores, drug stores, grocery stores, tobacco shop, liquor stores, no buses running.
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Ah, Lynchburg. Virginia's San Francisco
Great video! Lynchburg is great! We just uploaded a video on our top 5 public parks in Lynchburg! I’d love for you guys to check it out!
There are many old buildings need to be remodeled
Many actually have been over the past 10 years. Around 900 loft apartments, new offices, new hotel, and dozens of new businesses have been created from adaptive reuse of historic structures around town. Here are some before and after shots: www.flickr.com/gp/95507950@N03/71GKss
@@Maznhaden1 very nice pictures hope it keep development new projects still has many old ugly houses . In other subject must be more conservative and less liberal.
@@Maznhaden1 Nice. I did notice that there were signs downtown of a Main Street revitalization project. It should look a lot better once they've rebuilt the roads.
@@MileageMikeTravels yep, it is phase 2 of a $25 million waterline, fiber, and streetscaping project. Should be complete in May of 2021 and will look very nice when done with lots of curbside bulbouts for outdoor dining as well as wider decorative sidewalks and conversion to 2-way traffic. Most of the revitalization has occurred on Jefferson Street and the Lower Bluffwalk (a pedestrian zone between Jefferson and Commerce) up to now, but Main Street is ripe for a Renaissance after the Main Street renewal project is complete and the economy starts its post-Covid rebound in the Summer. Fingers crossed! The City is putting millions into modernizing downtown infrastructure in the hopes businesses will follow. Btw I have lived in downtown Lynchburg off of Commerce Street for almost nine years!
Depressing
Boring ass Lynchburg lol