May 5, 2026
By Kleigh Carroll
About 10,000 Richmonders live in the Iron Triangle in the shadow of the Chevron refinery, where their flatlands neighborhood is vulnerable to poor air quality, summer power outages and flooding from sea level rise.
Now there will be a place they can find safety and resources during such emergencies: Pogo Park’s Harbour Hall, a new Community Resiliency Center (CRC), is expected to have a soft opening this summer, with other finishing touches due to be completed later.
Harbour Hall, at Harbour-8 Park between Harbour Way and Eighth Street, will primarily be a programming and recreational space, but it was designed and outfitted to double as a place of refuge during crises such as earthquakes, fires, flooding, power outages and extreme weather.
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