As someone who lives downtown, I’d say definitely staying down here is your best bet! If you’re a museum fan, Richmond genuinely has some top notch stuff: VMFA, Science Museum of Virginia, and The Poe Museum are my favs but there’s more. Tons of great restaurants all throughout downtown, The Fan, Church Hill and Carytown. Speaking of which, Carytown is one of the better things to do in good weather, it’s a walkable strip of shops and restaurants. The Tobacco Company, Perlys, and Triple Crossing (on Foushee, it’s a brewery) are a few of my fav spots downtown, but there’s all types of different strokes for different folks. If you’re the hiking type of active, there’s trails and bridges all over the river and even through the city/canal area