A rendering of the planned Springline at District 60 mixed-use development in Chesterfield County. (Courtesy of Chesterfield County)
Construction hasn’t started yet, but half of the first office building to be built as part of the Spring Rock Green redevelopment project is now spoken for.
Initial tenants are Chesterfield County Public Schools and the county’s economic development department, which together are expected to occupy about 75,000 square feet in the building.
The office building is planned to rise in the first phase of Springline at District 60, a mixed-use successor to the old Spring Rock Green shopping center at the interchange of Midlothian Turnpike and Chippenham Parkway.
The county’s share of the building accounts for half of the structure’s overall planned square footage of 150,000 square feet. The majority of the county space will be devoted to a new administrative headquarters for the school district.
The district’s administrative offices are currently split between a building at 9900 Krause Road, within the county’s main government complex, and the district’s Career and Technical Center at 13900 Hull Street Road. Administrators will move out of those offices to consolidate operations at the Springline office.
The economic development department will be moving from 9401 Courthouse Road, in the Centre Court Office Park near the county complex.
Employees are scheduled to move into their new Springline offices in December 2024 and early 2025, and the county would start to pay rent in 2025, Economic Development Director Garrett Hart told BizSense.
Once school administrators are relocated, the school district plans to introduce new programming and increase student enrollment at the Career and Technical Center. Administrators’ space at the county complex is slated to be taken over by the general registrar.
In freeing up the space at the tech center, the school district expects to roughly double the number of students enrolled at the center from 560 to about 1,200.
Proposed new programs include but aren’t limited to coding, hospitality and hotel management, renewable energy, and health informatics, according to a staff presentation. Current programs include advanced manufacturing, barbering, physical therapy and culinary arts, among others.
On Wednesday, the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors approved a 20-year lease agreement with the future office building’s owner, an LLC tied to engineering firm Timmons Group.
The Economic Development Authority is under contract to sell the building’s pad site in June, Hart said. That same month, the EDA expects to close on the sale of another pad to Collins Enterprises, which is signed on to build a 300-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail and a parking deck as part of the first phase of development.
The EDA bought the Spring Rock Green shopping center in 2021 and is in the process of selling portions of the center to developers.
Hart said the structured parking is key to the county’s goal to build Springline as a dense, mixed-use development.
“In order to get the density we want there, we had to consider structured parking. Even though structural parking is an additional expense, the density of what you can build there pays for itself,” Hart said. “It makes the return on investment better.”
Demolition work is underway on the Spring Rock Green shopping center in April 2023. (Photo courtesy of Chesterfield County)
The overall project is expected to have more than 1,000 residential units, a total of 300,000 square feet of office space (a second 150,000-square-foot office building is planned for a later stage of the project), 150,000 square feet of retail space, a hotel and a sports venue with two NHL-sized ice rinks.
The overall project is expected to cost $675 million to build, according to the county.
Demolition is well underway at the Springline development site, where county officials held a ceremony in March to mark the start of the project.
A rendering of the planned Springline at District 60 mixed-use development in Chesterfield County. (Courtesy of Chesterfield County)
Construction hasn’t started yet, but half of the first office building to be built as part of the Spring Rock Green redevelopment project is now spoken for.
Initial tenants are Chesterfield County Public Schools and the county’s economic development department, which together are expected to occupy about 75,000 square feet in the building.
The office building is planned to rise in the first phase of Springline at District 60, a mixed-use successor to the old Spring Rock Green shopping center at the interchange of Midlothian Turnpike and Chippenham Parkway.
The county’s share of the building accounts for half of the structure’s overall planned square footage of 150,000 square feet. The majority of the county space will be devoted to a new administrative headquarters for the school district.
The district’s administrative offices are currently split between a building at 9900 Krause Road, within the county’s main government complex, and the district’s Career and Technical Center at 13900 Hull Street Road. Administrators will move out of those offices to consolidate operations at the Springline office.
The economic development department will be moving from 9401 Courthouse Road, in the Centre Court Office Park near the county complex.
Employees are scheduled to move into their new Springline offices in December 2024 and early 2025, and the county would start to pay rent in 2025, Economic Development Director Garrett Hart told BizSense.
Once school administrators are relocated, the school district plans to introduce new programming and increase student enrollment at the Career and Technical Center. Administrators’ space at the county complex is slated to be taken over by the general registrar.
In freeing up the space at the tech center, the school district expects to roughly double the number of students enrolled at the center from 560 to about 1,200.
Proposed new programs include but aren’t limited to coding, hospitality and hotel management, renewable energy, and health informatics, according to a staff presentation. Current programs include advanced manufacturing, barbering, physical therapy and culinary arts, among others.
On Wednesday, the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors approved a 20-year lease agreement with the future office building’s owner, an LLC tied to engineering firm Timmons Group.
The Economic Development Authority is under contract to sell the building’s pad site in June, Hart said. That same month, the EDA expects to close on the sale of another pad to Collins Enterprises, which is signed on to build a 300-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail and a parking deck as part of the first phase of development.
The EDA bought the Spring Rock Green shopping center in 2021 and is in the process of selling portions of the center to developers.
Hart said the structured parking is key to the county’s goal to build Springline as a dense, mixed-use development.
“In order to get the density we want there, we had to consider structured parking. Even though structural parking is an additional expense, the density of what you can build there pays for itself,” Hart said. “It makes the return on investment better.”
Demolition work is underway on the Spring Rock Green shopping center in April 2023. (Photo courtesy of Chesterfield County)
The overall project is expected to have more than 1,000 residential units, a total of 300,000 square feet of office space (a second 150,000-square-foot office building is planned for a later stage of the project), 150,000 square feet of retail space, a hotel and a sports venue with two NHL-sized ice rinks.
The overall project is expected to cost $675 million to build, according to the county.
Demolition is well underway at the Springline development site, where county officials held a ceremony in March to mark the start of the project.
If Timmons owns the building, aren’t they moving their HQ to it? That’s my understanding.
Correct Bruce. They will occupy 75,000 square feet.
This project will be a boon for that area of Chesterfield! It’s amazing how much that area has already transformed with good planning by the local government to ensure a mix of uses. Now they need to figure out mass transit in the corridor.
GRTC already goes there. They may just need to add more frequency and routes.
So does the first phase still include the ice plex? If it does I find it interesting the site is so right for redevelopment that it appears the majority of the tenants/users will be County entities in all aspects except housing.
And the regions largest civil engineering firm