Chesterfield County’s economic development authority plans to buy the Spring Rock Green shopping center to pave the way for a mixed-use development on the site. (BizSense file)
Chesterfield sets public hearing for Spring Rock Green purchase
The Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors voted last week to set a public hearing to consider the allocation of funds to buy Spring Rock Green shopping center. The public hearing and the vote to approve the funds is slated for Aug. 25.
The county economic development authority wants to buy the shopping center at the northwest corner of Midlothian Turnpike and Chippenham Parkway for $16 million and turn it into a mixed-use development.
It would feature more than 1,000 residential units and more than 290,000 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space, as well as a 190-room hotel and a sports-and-entertainment venue.
Mixed-use projects near Colonial Heights, Southside Speedway OK’d
Chesterfield supervisors also provided final approval for a mixed-use development near Colonial Heights last week.
The development, which would be located just north of Colonial Heights at the southwest intersection of Whitehouse Road and Route 1, would consist of 95 townhomes and a 51,000-square-foot building with 30 apartments and ground-floor retail space.
Swift Creek Vistas LLC submitted the project’s rezoning and conditional use application.
Board members OK’d Creighton Companies LLC’s amendment request to a previously approved zoning case to build a roughly 4,700-square-foot building for a 7-Eleven and a drive-thru restaurant at 2903 Oak Lake Blvd. The property is across the street from Southside Speedway, which the county recently bought and plans to redevelop to enhance River City Sportsplex.
Bus transfer station, accessory dwelling units on Richmond planning agenda
The Richmond Planning Commission meets at 1:30 p.m. Monday. The commission will continue its review of a temporary GRTC transfer station planned in the city-owned parking lot between Eighth and Ninth streets and between Leigh and Clay streets.
The review was started at the commission’s July 19 meeting but deferred due to concerns about potential impacts to the site and bus traffic from the redevelopment of the Public Safety Building site, where a 20-story tower and mixed-use office complex is planned. The project is prompting the proposed move from the current setup on Ninth Street.
The transfer station is projected to be in place up to 10 years. The lot’s 64 public parking spaces would be removed, and city government spaces would be reduced from 199 to 34. About a dozen on-street spaces along Eighth Street also would be impacted, with seven spaces proposed to remain.
Also on the agenda is a discussion on accessory dwelling units in residential districts. Full agenda here.
City seeks public input on American Rescue Plan Act spending
The City of Richmond is asking citizens to help form its federally-funded COVID-19 recovery spending plan. Citizens can take a survey that essentially asks the question, “How would you spend $77 million on your city?”
The American Rescue Plan Act allocates $154 million in federal relief funding to the City of Richmond, which will receive it in two yearly payments of $77 million.
According to federal guidelines, the money can be spent on four key priorities: responding to the negative public health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing premium pay to essential workers, investing in water, sewer or broadband infrastructure and making up for revenue the city lost during the pandemic. The money can be spent through 2026.
The survey, available here, will be open through Aug. 9 and is the first stage of community engagement around the American Rescue Plan funding. The results of the survey will assist the administration in creating the draft spending plan, which will then be available for public review and comment.
More on the American Rescue Plan Act’s impact on Richmond is available at RVA.gov.
Chesterfield County’s economic development authority plans to buy the Spring Rock Green shopping center to pave the way for a mixed-use development on the site. (BizSense file)
Chesterfield sets public hearing for Spring Rock Green purchase
The Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors voted last week to set a public hearing to consider the allocation of funds to buy Spring Rock Green shopping center. The public hearing and the vote to approve the funds is slated for Aug. 25.
The county economic development authority wants to buy the shopping center at the northwest corner of Midlothian Turnpike and Chippenham Parkway for $16 million and turn it into a mixed-use development.
It would feature more than 1,000 residential units and more than 290,000 square feet of office, retail and restaurant space, as well as a 190-room hotel and a sports-and-entertainment venue.
Mixed-use projects near Colonial Heights, Southside Speedway OK’d
Chesterfield supervisors also provided final approval for a mixed-use development near Colonial Heights last week.
The development, which would be located just north of Colonial Heights at the southwest intersection of Whitehouse Road and Route 1, would consist of 95 townhomes and a 51,000-square-foot building with 30 apartments and ground-floor retail space.
Swift Creek Vistas LLC submitted the project’s rezoning and conditional use application.
Board members OK’d Creighton Companies LLC’s amendment request to a previously approved zoning case to build a roughly 4,700-square-foot building for a 7-Eleven and a drive-thru restaurant at 2903 Oak Lake Blvd. The property is across the street from Southside Speedway, which the county recently bought and plans to redevelop to enhance River City Sportsplex.
Bus transfer station, accessory dwelling units on Richmond planning agenda
The Richmond Planning Commission meets at 1:30 p.m. Monday. The commission will continue its review of a temporary GRTC transfer station planned in the city-owned parking lot between Eighth and Ninth streets and between Leigh and Clay streets.
The review was started at the commission’s July 19 meeting but deferred due to concerns about potential impacts to the site and bus traffic from the redevelopment of the Public Safety Building site, where a 20-story tower and mixed-use office complex is planned. The project is prompting the proposed move from the current setup on Ninth Street.
The transfer station is projected to be in place up to 10 years. The lot’s 64 public parking spaces would be removed, and city government spaces would be reduced from 199 to 34. About a dozen on-street spaces along Eighth Street also would be impacted, with seven spaces proposed to remain.
Also on the agenda is a discussion on accessory dwelling units in residential districts. Full agenda here.
City seeks public input on American Rescue Plan Act spending
The City of Richmond is asking citizens to help form its federally-funded COVID-19 recovery spending plan. Citizens can take a survey that essentially asks the question, “How would you spend $77 million on your city?”
The American Rescue Plan Act allocates $154 million in federal relief funding to the City of Richmond, which will receive it in two yearly payments of $77 million.
According to federal guidelines, the money can be spent on four key priorities: responding to the negative public health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing premium pay to essential workers, investing in water, sewer or broadband infrastructure and making up for revenue the city lost during the pandemic. The money can be spent through 2026.
The survey, available here, will be open through Aug. 9 and is the first stage of community engagement around the American Rescue Plan funding. The results of the survey will assist the administration in creating the draft spending plan, which will then be available for public review and comment.
More on the American Rescue Plan Act’s impact on Richmond is available at RVA.gov.
The City of Richmond should use this to put 30 million into the city’s sidewalk system and use 20 million to repave all of it’s streets to allow the city to make up decades of transportation under funding.