The mixed-use development slated to replace the Spring Rock Green shopping center would feature more than 1,000 apartments, 125 townhomes, an ice hockey venue with two rinks, a hotel and commercial space. (BizSense file)
Chesterfield planning commissioners are slated to consider a proposal Tuesday to reinvent Spring Rock Green shopping center into a multi-use development.
If approved, the rezoning and conditional-use application would set the stage for more than 1,000 apartments, 125 townhomes, a two-rink ice hockey venue of 125,000 square feet, a 215-room hotel, 300,000 square feet of office space and 125,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
The scale of the project has grown from the scope county officials shared when they unveiled the project last summer.
“You have a grand vision of what we want it to become, but the details of the project allows some flexibility to occur,” Assistant Planning Director Stephen Donohoe said in an interview last week. “The development plan we have sets the general areas we want to have, a focus of the mixed-use core with an attractive central green space we’re calling Celebration Street and everything builds out from that core area.”
Apartment buildings at the development would be a minimum of four stories tall and include ground-floor commercial space. Structured parking would be part of the project and it would feature a connector road between Spring Rock Green and the Boulders Office Park.
The Planning Commission’s vote Tuesday is on whether to recommend the final approval of the proposed rezoning, which would be taken up by the Board of Supervisors at a future meeting.
The Spring Rock Green project represents a new phase of redevelopment in the immediate area. Across Midlothian Turnpike is Stonebridge Shopping Center, itself a redevelopment project on the site of the former Cloverleaf Mall where a new Shamin Hotel is planned.
“It’s essentially breathing new life into this aging shopping center and changing the trajectory of what this quadrant at Chippenham and Midlothian Turnpike can become,” Donohoe said of the redevelopment project at Spring Rock Green.
Andy Condlin with Roth Jackson Gibbons Condlin is representing the Chesterfield Economic Development Authority, which is the project applicant.
The EDA bought Spring Rock Green, at 7100 and 7318 Midlothian Turnpike, for $16 million late last year. The existing shopping center structure would be demolished to make way for the new project.
Demolition is expected to start in August or September, and the start of construction is slated to kick off alongside the demolition phase, a county spokesman said.
The outparcels that are home to Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread and other businesses aren’t owned by EDA and wouldn’t be part of the redevelopment project. The county plans to build a police station on the portion of the EDA property that fronts Midlothian Turnpike.
The mixed-use development slated to replace the Spring Rock Green shopping center would feature more than 1,000 apartments, 125 townhomes, an ice hockey venue with two rinks, a hotel and commercial space. (BizSense file)
Chesterfield planning commissioners are slated to consider a proposal Tuesday to reinvent Spring Rock Green shopping center into a multi-use development.
If approved, the rezoning and conditional-use application would set the stage for more than 1,000 apartments, 125 townhomes, a two-rink ice hockey venue of 125,000 square feet, a 215-room hotel, 300,000 square feet of office space and 125,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
The scale of the project has grown from the scope county officials shared when they unveiled the project last summer.
“You have a grand vision of what we want it to become, but the details of the project allows some flexibility to occur,” Assistant Planning Director Stephen Donohoe said in an interview last week. “The development plan we have sets the general areas we want to have, a focus of the mixed-use core with an attractive central green space we’re calling Celebration Street and everything builds out from that core area.”
Apartment buildings at the development would be a minimum of four stories tall and include ground-floor commercial space. Structured parking would be part of the project and it would feature a connector road between Spring Rock Green and the Boulders Office Park.
The Planning Commission’s vote Tuesday is on whether to recommend the final approval of the proposed rezoning, which would be taken up by the Board of Supervisors at a future meeting.
The Spring Rock Green project represents a new phase of redevelopment in the immediate area. Across Midlothian Turnpike is Stonebridge Shopping Center, itself a redevelopment project on the site of the former Cloverleaf Mall where a new Shamin Hotel is planned.
“It’s essentially breathing new life into this aging shopping center and changing the trajectory of what this quadrant at Chippenham and Midlothian Turnpike can become,” Donohoe said of the redevelopment project at Spring Rock Green.
Andy Condlin with Roth Jackson Gibbons Condlin is representing the Chesterfield Economic Development Authority, which is the project applicant.
The EDA bought Spring Rock Green, at 7100 and 7318 Midlothian Turnpike, for $16 million late last year. The existing shopping center structure would be demolished to make way for the new project.
Demolition is expected to start in August or September, and the start of construction is slated to kick off alongside the demolition phase, a county spokesman said.
The outparcels that are home to Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread and other businesses aren’t owned by EDA and wouldn’t be part of the redevelopment project. The county plans to build a police station on the portion of the EDA property that fronts Midlothian Turnpike.
The challenge for the County is to fill 300,000 sf of office space in a real estate sector that has gone begging. Sure, companies are pushing their employees to return to the office, but new space costs vs refits will determine which comes first. The only employer who can afford it is one that is planning it. Is that the plan?