The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports today (11/28/2012) that after "lengthy
negotiations over the weekend and Monday secured concessions on school funding
in exchange for key votes, Richmond's City Council approved Mayor Dwight C.
Jones' economic development package that will build a nearly $9 million training
camp facility for the Washington Redskins and allow two major hospital
expansions."
Bon Secours Richmond
Health System will pay $33,000 a year for the next
60 years under the new terms of leasing Westhampton School for an expansion of
nearby St. Mary's
Hospital. Initially, Bon Secours was scheduled to pay $5,000 a year for the school lease.
Bon Secours also agreed to pay
$100,000 a year for 10 years for school projects.
Bon Secours negotiated to be the
major sponsor of the Redskins training camp to be built on 17 acres off Leigh
Street behind the Science Museum of Virginia, which will be leased from the
state. Bon Secours intends to operate a
sports medicine and men's health facility at the training camp site.
An expansion of Richmond
Community Hospital in the East End is also planned.
