Stoney said that in his first two years in office, the city’s Department of Public Works has repaired 2,900 alleys, fixed 3,200 sidewalks and filled 50,000 potholes. In the budget he will present the council in March, Stoney pledged to include a 20-year plan laying out how the city can pay to improve its infrastructure in the long term.

He also cited the formation of a new Department of Citizen Service and Response, which oversees the city’s 311 Call Center and RVA311 website. The new department fielded 98,000 calls from residents in its first six months and handled 60 percent of them on the spot.

The mayor promised to convene a group of city and civic leaders to chart a vision for Shockoe Bottom that would include commemoration of the area’s slave-trading history. The group, which Stoney called the Shockoe Alliance, will build on the work his administration began last year with the National League of Cities and the Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use.

“I firmly believe that telling the true story of the tragic history that occurred in Shockoe can be the most inclusive history told anywhere in America, and telling an inclusive story of our history will attract visitors from all over the globe,” Stoney said.