Editing Bon Air, Virginia (section)

==Bon Air in the 2000s==
[[File:Bon Air Library.jpg|thumb|350px|The Bon Air "Hazen Memorial" Library was built 1902 to honor Rev. Hazen, an early intellectual and community leader in Bon Air. The library building was used until Chesterfield County built a new Bon Air library in 1975. The Hazen House decayed and saw little use until it was privately restored in the 2010s. It now operates as a private museum.]]
While remnants of the 1916 village-era post office, 1902 Hazen Library, and Hotel Grounds (currently the Bon Air Community Association) still linger at the intersection of Rockaway and McRae Roads, current day "Old Town" Bon Air is generally not a tourism attraction. The privately owned and restored Hazen House Library contains artifacts from Bon Air's history but is open only by appointment. While one can drive by numerous 1880s era houses on Buford Road that show an architectural style signature of the Bon Air resort era, these are all private dwellings that do not regularly offer access to the public. The "historic" bridge built over the railroad tracks by the Bon Air Historical Society enable one to look out over existing railroad tracks and see where "the Steps" once disembarked train visitors to the Bon Air Hotel, but most actual evidence of the train era in Bon Air has all but disappeared. The Bon Air Historical Society and Chesterfield County Parks and Recreation Department do offer infrequent tours of the resort era houses, and once a year, Bon Air residents and cultural institutions celebrate Bon Air's resort era history by hosting a "Victorian Days" community parade and general celebration on the first weekend in May.

Bon Air is largely a residential [[bedroom community]] surrounded by suburban shopping centers. In some cases, these shopping centers house independent businesses (butchers, coffee shops, restaurants) that are spinoffs from downtown Richmond's thriving independent business and restaurant scene. As families from the [[Fan District]] and other [[Neighborhoods of Richmond, Virginia|Richmond neighborhoods]] leave the city in search of a better school system and affordable housing, many settle in the [[inner suburb]] of Bon Air with 10-minute access to the city or the [[West End (Richmond, Virginia)|West End]] via the [[Powhite Parkway]] and/ or Chippenham Parkway.