Pullman, Richmond, CA

Pullman is a small central-Richmond neighborhood with an outsized piece of the city's history baked into it. It grew up in the 1910s around the Pullman Company's railcar repair shop, one of only a handful in the country at the time, and the tight orthogonal grid of worker housing still defines the layout. The old Pullman Avenue is now Carlson Boulevard, and South Street was renamed Ethel Dotson Drive in 2021 for the local civil-rights and environmental activist who grew up here. The shop closed in 1959, and the neighborhood has filled in since with a mix of older homes and newer residential and apartment development. It is compact and central, with Cutting and Carlson Boulevards carrying buses and connecting quickly to downtown Richmond and the freeways. The honest read is that Pullman is a modest, mixed central neighborhood where the appeal is history, affordability, and location rather than polish or quiet. The surrounding corridors are busy and workaday, and upkeep runs block to block. For buyers who like a neighborhood with a real story and an attainable price, Pullman has both.