The City of Richmond has shut down construction on a new performing arts center, saying that the foundation running the project didn’t have the required permits. “The order stunned the foundation, already under intense fire from Mayor L. Douglas Wilder, who has said he won’t release any more city funds for the project because he doesn’t believe the group has the resources to build the project as it had planned, especially now that the estimated cost climbed again this week, by roughly 20 percent to $112 million.”