Eggleston Plaza opens // Eggleston Plaza, a new, mixed-use complex with 31 affordable apartments, opens with speeches, applause and a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday in Jackson Ward. The complex at 2nd and Leigh streets is the site of the former Eggleston Hotel. During segregation, the historic hotel served civil rights leaders, famous entertainers and other African-Americans who were barred from other Richmond hotels because of the color of their skin. At the microphone, Kelvin Hanson, the developer and partner in the $6 million project, addresses the crowd, including Neverett A. Eggleston Sr., seated, who owned and operated the Eggleston Hotel, and several Eggleston family members.
