A screenshot of this month’s construction update video shows the new structure taking shape beside Westminster Canterbury’s nine-story Tower building.
The most visible phase of a multiyear expansion at Westminster Canterbury is taking shape in Richmond’s Northside.
Structures making up the residential portion of the retirement community’s “Vibrancy!” project have gone vertical and become increasingly visible from area roadways and along Interstate 95.
Towering beside the interstate is an extension of the Tower, the nine-story building that anchors the 60-acre campus along Westbrook Avenue on the northern edge of Bellevue. Steel framing for the new building is progressing, with a topping-off of the structure on track for early August, according to the latest construction update posted on Westminster Canterbury’s website.
CEO John Burns hosts the videos, which are posted monthly on Westminster Canterbury’s website.
Monthly video updates hosted by CEO John Burns have been tracking the project’s progress since this latest phase of the $200 million expansion kicked off with a groundbreaking ceremony last year.
This month’s update shows ground-level and aerial footage of the Tower site as well as the Village, a group of four-story apartment buildings that are filling a 10-acre portion of the former Azalea Mall site that Westminster Canterbury purchased in 2018.
The four Village apartment buildings are filling a 10-acre portion of the former Azalea Mall site.
The Vibrancy project got underway the following year with construction of the community’s new Spiritual Enrichment Center, which was completed last year.
The residential portion will add 118 new apartments between the 76 at the Village and the 42 above a new fitness and wellness center at the Tower. The additional units will bring the community’s independent living unit total to 605, increasing its residential capacity by nearly 25 percent.
At the Village, a roof and windows have been installed on one of the four buildings, where mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems also are going in. Roof work is set to start on another of the buildings, while steelwork is starting on the other two, Burns said.
The Village apartment buildings and the beginnings of a new clubhouse are taking shape beside a pond in the campus’s northeast corner.
Excavation work also is getting started for the foundation for a new clubhouse that’s planned beside the pond on the campus’s northeast corner. Also planned beside the pond is a new pumphouse, which Burns said would provide optimal water pressure across campus in the event of a fire.
Work on the pumphouse starts this month and will require the removal of two trees that Burns said would be replaced. Construction is expected to take a couple of months.
The new building beside the Tower looms beside I-95, visible through the trees.
The fitness and wellness center at the new Tower building will include aquatics facilities for residents and staff, and other resident amenities including a day spa. Rounding out the project are expanded dining and recreation venues, and a 400-space parking deck that opened last year.
The new apartments and living center are scheduled for completion in summer 2024. Gilbane and Henderson Construction, out of Williamsburg, are the contractors on the project. SFCS, out of Roanoke, is the architect.
Other firms on the project include landscape architect HG Design Studio, real estate company JLL, marketing agency Love & Company, wealth advisory CliftonLarsonAllen and investment bank Ziegler.
A screenshot of this month’s construction update video shows the new structure taking shape beside Westminster Canterbury’s nine-story Tower building.
The most visible phase of a multiyear expansion at Westminster Canterbury is taking shape in Richmond’s Northside.
Structures making up the residential portion of the retirement community’s “Vibrancy!” project have gone vertical and become increasingly visible from area roadways and along Interstate 95.
Towering beside the interstate is an extension of the Tower, the nine-story building that anchors the 60-acre campus along Westbrook Avenue on the northern edge of Bellevue. Steel framing for the new building is progressing, with a topping-off of the structure on track for early August, according to the latest construction update posted on Westminster Canterbury’s website.
CEO John Burns hosts the videos, which are posted monthly on Westminster Canterbury’s website.
Monthly video updates hosted by CEO John Burns have been tracking the project’s progress since this latest phase of the $200 million expansion kicked off with a groundbreaking ceremony last year.
This month’s update shows ground-level and aerial footage of the Tower site as well as the Village, a group of four-story apartment buildings that are filling a 10-acre portion of the former Azalea Mall site that Westminster Canterbury purchased in 2018.
The four Village apartment buildings are filling a 10-acre portion of the former Azalea Mall site.
The Vibrancy project got underway the following year with construction of the community’s new Spiritual Enrichment Center, which was completed last year.
The residential portion will add 118 new apartments between the 76 at the Village and the 42 above a new fitness and wellness center at the Tower. The additional units will bring the community’s independent living unit total to 605, increasing its residential capacity by nearly 25 percent.
At the Village, a roof and windows have been installed on one of the four buildings, where mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems also are going in. Roof work is set to start on another of the buildings, while steelwork is starting on the other two, Burns said.
The Village apartment buildings and the beginnings of a new clubhouse are taking shape beside a pond in the campus’s northeast corner.
Excavation work also is getting started for the foundation for a new clubhouse that’s planned beside the pond on the campus’s northeast corner. Also planned beside the pond is a new pumphouse, which Burns said would provide optimal water pressure across campus in the event of a fire.
Work on the pumphouse starts this month and will require the removal of two trees that Burns said would be replaced. Construction is expected to take a couple of months.
The new building beside the Tower looms beside I-95, visible through the trees.
The fitness and wellness center at the new Tower building will include aquatics facilities for residents and staff, and other resident amenities including a day spa. Rounding out the project are expanded dining and recreation venues, and a 400-space parking deck that opened last year.
The new apartments and living center are scheduled for completion in summer 2024. Gilbane and Henderson Construction, out of Williamsburg, are the contractors on the project. SFCS, out of Roanoke, is the architect.
Other firms on the project include landscape architect HG Design Studio, real estate company JLL, marketing agency Love & Company, wealth advisory CliftonLarsonAllen and investment bank Ziegler.