The latest rendering for the project at 711 Dawn St. shows a four-story building with ground-floor commercial space at the corner of Dawn and Tazewell. (Courtesy of City of Richmond)
A project that would add more apartments to an evolving industrial section of Richmond’s Northside is progressing, now with a slightly reduced density and scale.
The half-acre site at 711 Dawn St. is slated for a four-story, 41-unit project, according to a development plan filed with the city this month.
The project, at the corner of Tazewell Avenue just north of where Tazewell branches off from Chamberlayne Avenue, was originally proposed as a five-story building with 52 apartments and a ground-floor commercial space.
The commercial space appears to be smaller as well, now showing 4,000 square feet, down from 7,000 when the project was submitted for rezoning last year.
Totaling 52,400 square feet, the structure would replace two existing buildings on the site that have housed paving supplier Neyra Industries and general contractor T K Davis Construction Co. An entity tied to T K Davis owner Tommy Davis owns the property.
Doug Dunlap, a former deputy chief administrator for Richmond, is representing Davis in its filings with the city. Attempts to reach Dunlap for this story were unsuccessful.
Virginia Beach-based Saunders + Crouse Architects designed the latest plans filed with the city.
The current buildings at 711 Dawn St. (BizSense file)
The site is part of the surrounding Chamberlayne Industrial Park and is across Dawn Street from Tabol Brewing and across Tazewell from the McDonald’s that fronts Chamberlayne.
The area around it has been attracting interest from developers in recent years, with a 3.5-acre site a couple blocks south selling last year to Thalhimer Realty Partners for $2.75 million.
A few blocks south, Crescent Development and Spy Rock Real Estate Group recently completed Concord Northside, a 152-unit apartment building for seniors at the intersection of Chamberlayne and School Street.
Farther west near VUU, the 200-unit Foundry apartments from Virginia Beach-based The Lawson Cos. continue to take shape between Brook Road and the interstate. A few blocks north from that site on the other side of Brook, MVP Equities is developing its 224-unit Sphere Apartments complex between the post office and adjacent Spectrum apartments.
City property records show that Davis’s Max Holdings LLC has owned the Dawn Street property since 2001, when it was purchased for $170,000. The property most recently was assessed by the city at $319,000.
The apartments would now consist of 24 one-bedroom units and 17 two-bedrooms. Most of the units would range from 715 to 1,250 square feet in size. Three would reach 1,500 square feet, and two of the top-floor units would be the smallest at 560 and 635 square feet.
Rental rates for the units are not specified in the document. Last year’s rezoning request said that one-fifth of the units would be designated for families making 80 percent or less of the median household income. For Richmond, that comes out to $50,400 or less for an individual renter, or $72,000 or less for a four-person household, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The ground-floor commercial space, which would front Dawn Street, would be targeted to professional and personal service businesses. The rest of the ground floor would consist of a parking area with 41 spaces, and the property would also include bike racks and a dog wash.
The latest rendering for the project at 711 Dawn St. shows a four-story building with ground-floor commercial space at the corner of Dawn and Tazewell. (Courtesy of City of Richmond)
A project that would add more apartments to an evolving industrial section of Richmond’s Northside is progressing, now with a slightly reduced density and scale.
The half-acre site at 711 Dawn St. is slated for a four-story, 41-unit project, according to a development plan filed with the city this month.
The project, at the corner of Tazewell Avenue just north of where Tazewell branches off from Chamberlayne Avenue, was originally proposed as a five-story building with 52 apartments and a ground-floor commercial space.
The commercial space appears to be smaller as well, now showing 4,000 square feet, down from 7,000 when the project was submitted for rezoning last year.
Totaling 52,400 square feet, the structure would replace two existing buildings on the site that have housed paving supplier Neyra Industries and general contractor T K Davis Construction Co. An entity tied to T K Davis owner Tommy Davis owns the property.
Doug Dunlap, a former deputy chief administrator for Richmond, is representing Davis in its filings with the city. Attempts to reach Dunlap for this story were unsuccessful.
Virginia Beach-based Saunders + Crouse Architects designed the latest plans filed with the city.
The current buildings at 711 Dawn St. (BizSense file)
The site is part of the surrounding Chamberlayne Industrial Park and is across Dawn Street from Tabol Brewing and across Tazewell from the McDonald’s that fronts Chamberlayne.
The area around it has been attracting interest from developers in recent years, with a 3.5-acre site a couple blocks south selling last year to Thalhimer Realty Partners for $2.75 million.
A few blocks south, Crescent Development and Spy Rock Real Estate Group recently completed Concord Northside, a 152-unit apartment building for seniors at the intersection of Chamberlayne and School Street.
Farther west near VUU, the 200-unit Foundry apartments from Virginia Beach-based The Lawson Cos. continue to take shape between Brook Road and the interstate. A few blocks north from that site on the other side of Brook, MVP Equities is developing its 224-unit Sphere Apartments complex between the post office and adjacent Spectrum apartments.
City property records show that Davis’s Max Holdings LLC has owned the Dawn Street property since 2001, when it was purchased for $170,000. The property most recently was assessed by the city at $319,000.
The apartments would now consist of 24 one-bedroom units and 17 two-bedrooms. Most of the units would range from 715 to 1,250 square feet in size. Three would reach 1,500 square feet, and two of the top-floor units would be the smallest at 560 and 635 square feet.
Rental rates for the units are not specified in the document. Last year’s rezoning request said that one-fifth of the units would be designated for families making 80 percent or less of the median household income. For Richmond, that comes out to $50,400 or less for an individual renter, or $72,000 or less for a four-person household, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The ground-floor commercial space, which would front Dawn Street, would be targeted to professional and personal service businesses. The rest of the ground floor would consist of a parking area with 41 spaces, and the property would also include bike racks and a dog wash.