Where are we? (Part 3)

Jenny wins again in Cogito’s series asking readers to identify well-known Richmond places and buildings. She was the first to say that the Part 2 image was of the 124-foot tower of Boatwright Memorial Library at the University of Richmond.

She even included in her comment a link to a Web page with lots of info about the UR library, in which I and others in the family spent many hours studying for our undergraduate degrees.

Now, here’s an easy one for Part 3 of this fun exercise. And it’s a bit different. Clearly, in the image above, an empty lot is in the foreground. Here’s the question: What used to stand on that empty lot just a couple of years ago? It might not fit the standard definition of a landmark, but it certainly was one for more than a few generations.

(If you’re coming in during the middle of this exercise on how well you know Richmond, you can start from the beginning by clicking here.)