A rendering of the planned Springline at District 60 mixed-use development in Chesterfield County. Construction is underway on the development, which is being built on the site of the old Spring Rock Green shopping center. (BizSense file)
The effort to redevelop Spring Rock Green now includes a future grocery store, one of the project’s developers said this week.
The 15,000- to 20,000-square-foot store would be built for an unidentified grocer and would be next to The James, a sizable mixed-use building that’s also part of the first phase of Springline at District 60, which is replacing the old shopping center on Midlothian Turnpike at the interchange with Chippenham Parkway.
Adding to the action at the site, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Thursday (today) to commemorate The James, construction of which is already underway.
The James is planned to house 300 apartments and about 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space. The apartments are planned to be high-end units with amenities like a rooftop deck, swimming pool courtyard and fitness center, according to Art Collins, principal of Collins Enterprises, the Connecticut-based developer of The James.
The $85 million mixed-use building broke ground this summer, Collins said, and has already begun to go vertical.
As for the future grocery store on the site, Collins said they’ve yet to line up a tenant and he declined to comment on who the potential users could be. While Collins’ firm hasn’t been tapped to handle the grocery store’s construction, he said the company is involved in the search for potential users.
A rendering of The James at Springline mixed-use building. (Courtesy Collins Enterprises)
In addition to The James, phase one of Springline includes construction of a 150,000-square-foot office building, a sports and entertainment venue that county officials have said will feature two NHL-sized ice rinks, along with the grocery store, a parking garage and green space.
Additional development is expected to follow in future phases that eventually will total more than 1,000 apartments, 300,000 square feet of office space along with 125,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space. Also planned for Springline are more than 100 townhomes, a hotel and a police station.
The James is anticipated to complete construction in the first quarter of 2025. Clancy and Theys Construction is the general contractor for The James. LaBella is the project’s architect.
The mixed-use building is a joint venture between Collins, private equity firm Kaufman Jacobs, financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald and Silverstein Properties, a real investment company.
An LLC tied to Collins bought the nearly 3-acre project site for The James for $953,000 from the Chesterfield Economic Development Authority in a deal that was recorded with the county in July, per online records.
The EDA also sold the 1.2-acre project site for the phase-one office building to local engineering giant Timmons Group, which plans to relocate its headquarters from the nearby Boulders office park to the new office building at Springline.
Timmons is the developer of that building and will occupy about half of the 150,000-square-foot structure, and the other half will be leased by the county’s school division and economic development department. Timmons paid $490,000 for the site in a deal that was recorded in July. Construction on that project is also already underway.
Collins said demolition of the old Spring Rock Green shopping center, which kicked off earlier this year, has largely been completed ahead of the redevelopment project. Still holding out is a Dollar Tree outpost, which was still open this week and has its lease on its space through January, Collins said.
The EDA bought the 42-acre site that makes up most of the Spring Rock Green site for $16 million in 2021 and has been selling off portions to developers to build out the site.
The outparcels at the center, where Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread and other businesses are located, aren’t owned by the EDA and aren’t part of the redevelopment project.
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors voted in April 2022 to rezone the Spring Rock Green property for redevelopment.
A 2023 master plan of the Springline at District 60 mixed-use development in Chesterfield County. (Courtesy Chesterfield County)
A rendering of the planned Springline at District 60 mixed-use development in Chesterfield County. Construction is underway on the development, which is being built on the site of the old Spring Rock Green shopping center. (BizSense file)
The effort to redevelop Spring Rock Green now includes a future grocery store, one of the project’s developers said this week.
The 15,000- to 20,000-square-foot store would be built for an unidentified grocer and would be next to The James, a sizable mixed-use building that’s also part of the first phase of Springline at District 60, which is replacing the old shopping center on Midlothian Turnpike at the interchange with Chippenham Parkway.
Adding to the action at the site, a groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Thursday (today) to commemorate The James, construction of which is already underway.
The James is planned to house 300 apartments and about 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space. The apartments are planned to be high-end units with amenities like a rooftop deck, swimming pool courtyard and fitness center, according to Art Collins, principal of Collins Enterprises, the Connecticut-based developer of The James.
The $85 million mixed-use building broke ground this summer, Collins said, and has already begun to go vertical.
As for the future grocery store on the site, Collins said they’ve yet to line up a tenant and he declined to comment on who the potential users could be. While Collins’ firm hasn’t been tapped to handle the grocery store’s construction, he said the company is involved in the search for potential users.
A rendering of The James at Springline mixed-use building. (Courtesy Collins Enterprises)
In addition to The James, phase one of Springline includes construction of a 150,000-square-foot office building, a sports and entertainment venue that county officials have said will feature two NHL-sized ice rinks, along with the grocery store, a parking garage and green space.
Additional development is expected to follow in future phases that eventually will total more than 1,000 apartments, 300,000 square feet of office space along with 125,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space. Also planned for Springline are more than 100 townhomes, a hotel and a police station.
The James is anticipated to complete construction in the first quarter of 2025. Clancy and Theys Construction is the general contractor for The James. LaBella is the project’s architect.
The mixed-use building is a joint venture between Collins, private equity firm Kaufman Jacobs, financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald and Silverstein Properties, a real investment company.
An LLC tied to Collins bought the nearly 3-acre project site for The James for $953,000 from the Chesterfield Economic Development Authority in a deal that was recorded with the county in July, per online records.
The EDA also sold the 1.2-acre project site for the phase-one office building to local engineering giant Timmons Group, which plans to relocate its headquarters from the nearby Boulders office park to the new office building at Springline.
Timmons is the developer of that building and will occupy about half of the 150,000-square-foot structure, and the other half will be leased by the county’s school division and economic development department. Timmons paid $490,000 for the site in a deal that was recorded in July. Construction on that project is also already underway.
Collins said demolition of the old Spring Rock Green shopping center, which kicked off earlier this year, has largely been completed ahead of the redevelopment project. Still holding out is a Dollar Tree outpost, which was still open this week and has its lease on its space through January, Collins said.
The EDA bought the 42-acre site that makes up most of the Spring Rock Green site for $16 million in 2021 and has been selling off portions to developers to build out the site.
The outparcels at the center, where Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread and other businesses are located, aren’t owned by the EDA and aren’t part of the redevelopment project.
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors voted in April 2022 to rezone the Spring Rock Green property for redevelopment.
A 2023 master plan of the Springline at District 60 mixed-use development in Chesterfield County. (Courtesy Chesterfield County)
Hmmmmm….. there’s a mega Kroger right across the street — is this THAT good of a grocer-location? I guess so if they are going to build for that but hopefully they talked to the same people the supermarkets talk to. That or they see the future for that general area that I do: it keeps getting high quality redevelopment and the Richmond side has a lot of blue sky as well — but it could take some time…
The simple answer is – likely – yes, it is. I’m no expert in the industry by any stretch, but my first-blush guess would be that those who have done the analytics are looking at not just the population figures of the grocer’s “catch area” – which given the proposed store’s location to a major highway (Chippenham Parkway) and a major “stroad” (Midlothian Turnpike) might actually be fairly sizeable given the perceived drivability but also at the “economic density” within the catch area (how “big” is the dollar of the potential shopper base. ALSO – they’re no doubt looking at… Read more »
I believe the fastest growing area of Chesterfield is Moseley. If what I read is correct that certainly tracks because it’s congested as hell out here from the 288/Hull interchange out to Skinquarter.
That makes sense – particularly with what might come down the road to nearby Magnolia Green if/when the expressway extension is every constructed.
I’d imagine that pretty much anywhere along the 288 corridor is a hot-growth area.
It’s congested because everyone that lives west of 288 has to use Hull Street to get anywhere in the Metro area. There is no other easy way to access 288 or the Powhite So many neighborhoods just off one main road.
Great point!
Aldi or foodlion would be logical guesses or out of markets like acme. Or Wegmans if they wanted to wage war on kroger
Wegman’s does NOT want to wage war on Kroger — Wgms is a still a little guy and in spite of what it looks like in Virginia (and Raleigh) recently, they are NOT a high growth company by nature. Their main markets outside of VA are actually shrinking (not their fault, but the fault of those who govern NYS and PA) and that is a big reason they are moving down here and want to build a distribution center in the RIchmond Metro. In a way, they are following a lot of New Yorkers from Upstate how have moved to… Read more »
Has to be Publix or a Whole Foods that is the targeted grocer.
At “15,000- to 20,000-square-foot,” this sounds like Aldi or Trader Joe’s, otherwise I would have bet on Publix (needs 3-4x the space).
Could be right about Aldi, but I’m thinking Lidl. There’s an Aldi at Forest Hill and Chippenham. Seriously doubt Trader Joe’s. Right size, wrong demographic.
Lidl closed Short Pump and is closing stores nationwide as they struggle. After the closings they let go 200 corporate employees.
Lidl at Chesterfield Towne Center is closing as well.
Interesting, where did that news come from?
Do you know when they are closing the Chesterfield Towne Center store? I haven’t seen any news articles on it.
Lidl Closes 11 Stores in the US. See the Full List. (businessinsider.com)
Only two locations shown on that list are for Short Pump and Charlottesville. There is nothing about Chesterfield on there.
Oh mother flufer.i actually liked lidi
I doubt this.
Whole Foods is picky.
Publix I think is satisfied with their current footprint in Richmond Metro.
Trader Joes COULD be a possibility — but it might not be — have to see how long most people have to drive to the one in Short Pump. Somehow I think the general areas is not yet “lower-upper-middle-class” Volvo enough for them yet.
Trader Joe’s is just up the road at Huguenot and Buford. I can see them putting in a store 3 miles just down the road.
Yes — I lean toward this view too. Trader Joes is pretty picky.
It’ll be an Amazon Fresh, I imagine, which is also going in across from the Target at Libbie/W Broad.
I say that this is the first good guess. Who wants to compete with a Megakroger across the street?
I am astounded that the Carytown area can support all those grocers — but they seem to!! They must get a lot of people from the entire area like the West End.
Amazon Fresh in February announced NO new stores (as it closes several) as the concept is not working or making money per their own press release but in Chesterfield VA they are planning to open a new one??? Please I am laughing so hard it hurts!
Okay — maybe you should just be tittering and not guffawing — that another good point added to the mix — while maybe the Amazon Fresh concept could work well for that location (compared to other locations AND compared to other grocer concepts) you have reminded me that that I had also heard that this latest creep of the Amazon mycelium was not working well — but I heard that long enough ago that it was not top of mind and of course the situation could’ve changed in the meantime — — what this newest tid bit is telling me… Read more »
Where is Chesterfield’s plan to build sidewalks and crosswalks in this area??? Wide road with dangerous drivers.
LOL!
Forget crosswalk, they need a bridge in this area!
Or a tunnel!
That’s so brilliant it hurts. This woulda been a godsend in my feme mall rat days (I’d go from cloverleaf to across the road to peaches records a & n and the comic shop that was located behind them
And red light cameras. The amount of insane driving and red light runners on that stretch is ridiculous.
The logical grocer for this size would be Aldi’s, not Publix, and this certainly isn’t a Whole Foods location from a demographic perspective.
Food Lion? They’ll bldg.around the corner from another Food Lion.
Seems more realistic that it’ll be an Aldi location, which is actually fairly ideal and would be a more affordable option for that area.
I could see the International market, a block or so down, moving to a new building here.
That place isn’t great – big room for a higher end international grocery to take the market down here. Let’s see an H Mart.
That place isn’t great – big room for a higher end international grocery to take the market down here. Let’s see a H Mart.
As weird as this sounds, I think another grocery store in the area is a good idea. That Kroger across the street is very underwhelming and I think some healthy competition would be good for that area.
Even though there’s an Aldi up on Forest Hill Avenue, this might be a good place for one.
Could be, but if they have to split the customer base, that wouldn’t be good for anyone.
I’d like for Big Apple Supermarket to expand with more locations.
You like it? I’ve never been — what are the pluses? I’d like the Fresh to Frozen to expand myself — I have evangelized about that place to so many people that there are jokes about me… I once bought a five gallon bucket of high quality sour cream and I was giving away small containers of it to friends’ large families for months — and the crates of almost free bananas I’ve gotten I had to panic donate and press my wife into baking banana bread. The latest adventure I bought like a years supply of goat cheese and… Read more »
Locally owned, has a lot of hard to find international food items.
I’ll check it some time! I got a friend who is of a rare ethnicity for the area who tells me about his favorite small markets but they tend to be in places I am never driving by.