As project manager, Rick Pilgrim has been involved in keeping the work on schedule while integrating small black businesses and trainees into the development of the new home of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center on Leigh Street in Jackson Ward.
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Black History Museum project becomes a career changer
For Rickey Young and Teimon Phillips, the new Black History Museum and Cultural Center in Richmond’s Jackson Ward will always be a special place. Both men got their first experience in the construction field in working to transform the long vacant but historic Leigh Street Armory into the museum’s new home.