Rendering of the planned Pocoshock Green development. (Courtesy of StyleCraft)
A Lakeside builder is looking across the river for its latest 55-and-up residential development.
StyleCraft Homes is planning a community of 128 single-family attached townhomes on 33 acres at 7681 Elkhardt Road, between Hull Street Road and Midlothian Turnpike to the west of Chippenham Parkway.
Plans for the project received support last week from the Chesterfield County Planning Commission. They now go to county supervisors, who will consider the case at their Aug. 24 meeting.
The townhomes would be marketed for people ages 55 and up, with restrictions against those under 18. (Courtesy of StyleCraft)
The land for the project was zoned in 2005 for a townhouse-type development, but StyleCraft is seeking conditional uses to allow for a different type of development with recreational amenities, said Mitchell Bode, StyleCraft’s land acquisition and development director.
The company is requesting the rezoning through an entity called Pocoshock Green Development LLC. Bode said it is under contract to purchase the property from Newport News-based Pocoshock Green LLC, which purchased it in 2007 for $1.6 million.
“I think they realized that the product that they had approved didn’t necessarily work,” Bode said, noting a previous design that involved smaller lots and alleyways. “It was just too expensive, and we didn’t really see a buyer profile for that.
“We ended up putting it under contract with the intention to rezone it to more of a townhouse-attached product for the same type of buyer,” Bode said. “We’re not changing the age restriction at all.”
The townhomes would be marketed to ages 55 and up, with restrictions against occupants younger than 18, according to county documents. Units would have a minimum size of 1,850 square feet and would be built with brick, stone, HardiPlank and higher-quality vinyl siding, with brick or stone chimneys. Each unit would have at least a one-car garage, and all units would feature first-floor master bedrooms.
Prices would range from $275,000 to $350,000 and include a two-year warranty, property maintenance and repair, a 10-year structural warranty and a home maintenance plan, among other inclusions. The development would also include “passive recreational facilities,” such as a pavilion, raised garden area with storage shed, and a lawn area with benches.
Plans do not call for a community center, which the county typically requires in its townhome zoning. Bode said StyleCraft asked for an exception to that requirement due to the number of units that would make up the project.
“Our argument has been: It’s 128 units, and we think (the requirement would be) setting the community up for long-term failure by building a clubhouse that won’t be able to be supported by the homeowners association, which would eventually own it,” he said.
He said commissioners agreed the center was not needed with the project’s other amenities.
The development would turn over to the homeowners’ association once 75 to 80 percent of the units are occupied, Bode said.
If approved next month, Bode said development would start next summer, with the first cluster of townhomes going vertical by that fall or early 2018. He said the project would likely be built in three phases and completed over the course of three to four years.
Bode declined to disclose the projected cost for the development, and he would not say how much the company has agreed to pay for the land.
The development would be the latest age-restricted product for StyleCraft, which started building in Richmond in 1999. Similar projects have included the Villas at Rose Hill in Mechanicsville and the Villas at Archer Springs in Chesterfield, which is currently under development. The company is also building a 55-and-up section at TerraForge Communities’ FoxCreek.
Bode said the company, founded by father-and-son team Dale and Richard Kuhn, is currently building about 140 homes a year in the Richmond area, having pulled back operations from previous outposts in Hampton Roads, North Carolina and Florida. It also recently took over a nearly 50-townhome project in Henrico County from Romm Custom Homes, which has been facing financial and legal troubles.
Rendering of the planned Pocoshock Green development. (Courtesy of StyleCraft)
A Lakeside builder is looking across the river for its latest 55-and-up residential development.
StyleCraft Homes is planning a community of 128 single-family attached townhomes on 33 acres at 7681 Elkhardt Road, between Hull Street Road and Midlothian Turnpike to the west of Chippenham Parkway.
Plans for the project received support last week from the Chesterfield County Planning Commission. They now go to county supervisors, who will consider the case at their Aug. 24 meeting.
The townhomes would be marketed for people ages 55 and up, with restrictions against those under 18. (Courtesy of StyleCraft)
The land for the project was zoned in 2005 for a townhouse-type development, but StyleCraft is seeking conditional uses to allow for a different type of development with recreational amenities, said Mitchell Bode, StyleCraft’s land acquisition and development director.
The company is requesting the rezoning through an entity called Pocoshock Green Development LLC. Bode said it is under contract to purchase the property from Newport News-based Pocoshock Green LLC, which purchased it in 2007 for $1.6 million.
“I think they realized that the product that they had approved didn’t necessarily work,” Bode said, noting a previous design that involved smaller lots and alleyways. “It was just too expensive, and we didn’t really see a buyer profile for that.
“We ended up putting it under contract with the intention to rezone it to more of a townhouse-attached product for the same type of buyer,” Bode said. “We’re not changing the age restriction at all.”
The townhomes would be marketed to ages 55 and up, with restrictions against occupants younger than 18, according to county documents. Units would have a minimum size of 1,850 square feet and would be built with brick, stone, HardiPlank and higher-quality vinyl siding, with brick or stone chimneys. Each unit would have at least a one-car garage, and all units would feature first-floor master bedrooms.
Prices would range from $275,000 to $350,000 and include a two-year warranty, property maintenance and repair, a 10-year structural warranty and a home maintenance plan, among other inclusions. The development would also include “passive recreational facilities,” such as a pavilion, raised garden area with storage shed, and a lawn area with benches.
Plans do not call for a community center, which the county typically requires in its townhome zoning. Bode said StyleCraft asked for an exception to that requirement due to the number of units that would make up the project.
“Our argument has been: It’s 128 units, and we think (the requirement would be) setting the community up for long-term failure by building a clubhouse that won’t be able to be supported by the homeowners association, which would eventually own it,” he said.
He said commissioners agreed the center was not needed with the project’s other amenities.
The development would turn over to the homeowners’ association once 75 to 80 percent of the units are occupied, Bode said.
If approved next month, Bode said development would start next summer, with the first cluster of townhomes going vertical by that fall or early 2018. He said the project would likely be built in three phases and completed over the course of three to four years.
Bode declined to disclose the projected cost for the development, and he would not say how much the company has agreed to pay for the land.
The development would be the latest age-restricted product for StyleCraft, which started building in Richmond in 1999. Similar projects have included the Villas at Rose Hill in Mechanicsville and the Villas at Archer Springs in Chesterfield, which is currently under development. The company is also building a 55-and-up section at TerraForge Communities’ FoxCreek.
Bode said the company, founded by father-and-son team Dale and Richard Kuhn, is currently building about 140 homes a year in the Richmond area, having pulled back operations from previous outposts in Hampton Roads, North Carolina and Florida. It also recently took over a nearly 50-townhome project in Henrico County from Romm Custom Homes, which has been facing financial and legal troubles.