Site work already was underway at Courthouse Landing by the time a groundbreaking ceremony was held Wednesday for the mixed-use project in Chesterfield. (Jack Jacobs photos)
A long-planned mixed-use project in Chesterfield has taken another step forward after new developers came on earlier this year to guide it to the starting line.
Ground was broken Wednesday at Courthouse Landing, which will bring hundreds of residences, at least 250,000 square feet of commercial space and a hotel to the roughly 124-acre site near the intersection of Courthouse and Iron Bridge roads.
As site work gets underway, the development already has a number of commercial tenants signed on, including Panera Bread, Panda Express, Outback Steakhouse, Sheetz, Virginia Credit Union, Touchstone Bank and carwash chain ModWash, according to a layout map of the development on display at the groundbreaking event.
VCU Health is expected to anchor the development with what’s now planned to be a 60,000-square-foot outpatient and office space facility. A TownePlace Suites by Marriott is also planned, along with about 480 residential units.
In addition to the VCU Health facility, the developers anticipate additional medical office buildings will rise at Courthouse Landing. And additional commercial space remains available, said Edward Schmidt, a member of the project’s development team.
Reston-based Stanley Martin Homes will build the project’s 112 townhomes and 72 condos, all of which will be for-sale units. Michigan-based Edward Rose & Sons intends to build 300 apartment units at the site.
Schmidt declined to name the operator of the TownePlace Suites hotel, but said discussions were ongoing with a local firm to run it. The hotel is expected to have between 125 and 150 rooms.
Also planned for the development is a 4-acre recreational area and more than 3 miles of walking and jogging paths.
A layout map showing Courthouse Landing and planned commercial users and residential units.
In his remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony, Chesterfield Supervisor Kevin Carroll noted that the project is primed to become an epicenter of activity in a central part of the county, just off state Route 288 and in the vicinity of the county government complex and courthouse.
“It’s going to provide opportunities for people to live, work and play right here,” Carroll said. “This is a tremendous addition to Chesterfield County and we’re proud of what’s going to happen here.”
Supervisor Jim Holland also shared remarks during the event.
Schmidt is among a group of Floridians behind Courthouse Landing Va LLC. Earlier this year the group took the reins of the project from Florida-based Dunphy Properties and Georgia-based Shuler Properties, which oversaw the successful rezoning of the project site in mid-2020. Local real estate company NAI Dominion has remained involved in the project, which has been in the works since late 2019.
Alongside Schmidt are Robert Eckstein and Josh Rodstein. The trio are partners at real estate firm NAI Miami, though the firm itself isn’t involved in the project. Courthouse Landing is the group’s second project, and the team (which also includes Ray Gonzalez, Renee Gonzalez and Alexa Agreda) is also behind the Kendall Town Center project in Miami.
Schmidt said his team, which acquired the Courthouse Landing property for $7 million from the Economic Development Authority and a private owner, intends to lay the groundwork for the site and will sell off portions to other firms to handle actual construction of their respective buildings. He expected deals to start to close next summer.
“It should all happen very quickly. You’re going to get Sheetz on the corner, you’re going to get Outback. Everybody is going to have their plans ready. The minute we deliver, they should hopefully be able to start construction,” he said.
Site work already was underway at Courthouse Landing by the time a groundbreaking ceremony was held Wednesday for the mixed-use project in Chesterfield. (Jack Jacobs photos)
A long-planned mixed-use project in Chesterfield has taken another step forward after new developers came on earlier this year to guide it to the starting line.
Ground was broken Wednesday at Courthouse Landing, which will bring hundreds of residences, at least 250,000 square feet of commercial space and a hotel to the roughly 124-acre site near the intersection of Courthouse and Iron Bridge roads.
As site work gets underway, the development already has a number of commercial tenants signed on, including Panera Bread, Panda Express, Outback Steakhouse, Sheetz, Virginia Credit Union, Touchstone Bank and carwash chain ModWash, according to a layout map of the development on display at the groundbreaking event.
VCU Health is expected to anchor the development with what’s now planned to be a 60,000-square-foot outpatient and office space facility. A TownePlace Suites by Marriott is also planned, along with about 480 residential units.
In addition to the VCU Health facility, the developers anticipate additional medical office buildings will rise at Courthouse Landing. And additional commercial space remains available, said Edward Schmidt, a member of the project’s development team.
Reston-based Stanley Martin Homes will build the project’s 112 townhomes and 72 condos, all of which will be for-sale units. Michigan-based Edward Rose & Sons intends to build 300 apartment units at the site.
Schmidt declined to name the operator of the TownePlace Suites hotel, but said discussions were ongoing with a local firm to run it. The hotel is expected to have between 125 and 150 rooms.
Also planned for the development is a 4-acre recreational area and more than 3 miles of walking and jogging paths.
A layout map showing Courthouse Landing and planned commercial users and residential units.
In his remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony, Chesterfield Supervisor Kevin Carroll noted that the project is primed to become an epicenter of activity in a central part of the county, just off state Route 288 and in the vicinity of the county government complex and courthouse.
“It’s going to provide opportunities for people to live, work and play right here,” Carroll said. “This is a tremendous addition to Chesterfield County and we’re proud of what’s going to happen here.”
Supervisor Jim Holland also shared remarks during the event.
Schmidt is among a group of Floridians behind Courthouse Landing Va LLC. Earlier this year the group took the reins of the project from Florida-based Dunphy Properties and Georgia-based Shuler Properties, which oversaw the successful rezoning of the project site in mid-2020. Local real estate company NAI Dominion has remained involved in the project, which has been in the works since late 2019.
Alongside Schmidt are Robert Eckstein and Josh Rodstein. The trio are partners at real estate firm NAI Miami, though the firm itself isn’t involved in the project. Courthouse Landing is the group’s second project, and the team (which also includes Ray Gonzalez, Renee Gonzalez and Alexa Agreda) is also behind the Kendall Town Center project in Miami.
Schmidt said his team, which acquired the Courthouse Landing property for $7 million from the Economic Development Authority and a private owner, intends to lay the groundwork for the site and will sell off portions to other firms to handle actual construction of their respective buildings. He expected deals to start to close next summer.
“It should all happen very quickly. You’re going to get Sheetz on the corner, you’re going to get Outback. Everybody is going to have their plans ready. The minute we deliver, they should hopefully be able to start construction,” he said.
Outback? Panda Express? What is this 1993? A shopping mall food court? A car wash? How uninspired. Congratulations on making a place not worth caring about. There are resons why people travel to Charleston, Savannah, Old Town Alexandria, Annapolis, etc. To escape the banality of their suburban confines. This could be a village, but instead they’ll tear down a forest so fat kids can get drive-through orange chicken.
It’s rare that I’ll criticize a development plan but this one is so blatantly bad that I have to chime in. Perhaps it’s because it’s from all out of towners who do not know and understand Richmond. Perhaps it’s because after 30 years here, I think I understand Richmond and am one with the region. This chop-chop suburban monster reminds me so much of the huge South Carolina ugliness around Blufton with its Margaritaville PUDs and “rivers” of collector highways. Maybe I’m not in a charitable mood this morning. This isn’t “change” that I’ll embrace. So much more could have… Read more »
Bruce, you are always the voice of reason and wisdom in these forums and I agree with you on this too!
On behalf of fat kids everywhere, I should take umbrage at your comments. However , I’m not really sure what umbrage is. I will say that even as a fat kid, I’ve never desired drive-thru orange chicken.
Hope you have no kids , now we know why kids grow up to be bullies! Bad parents! Grow up. Those fat jokes are what’s 1990!
Wow.
And getting offended at everything is very 2020+. I was a fat kid. If you want to talk about offensive, my mother would take me to Thalhimers Husky section to buy my clothes. My corduroy pants could be heard two blocks away from the swishing of my thighs rubbing together. Fortunately, I put all that behind me (quite literally) and I grew up to be a fat old man. But I never became a bully.
I wasn’t a fat kid, but I did grow up to be a fat old man, so I’m right there with you, partner. My best childhood friend was a fat kid (and a heck of a football player) and he and I were kinda like our neighborhood’s Laurel & Hardy – the skinny kid and the fat kid. We were inseparable and remained close all our lives. Unfortunately, he passed away from congestive heart failure in 2017. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I miss him.
More like…another car wash? wth? We have 2 less than 3 miles down the road. Guess people will be too lazy to drive to those.
They will change to something else if they fail.
When
Welcome to Short Pump living!Only thing missing now is a Walmart Supercenter across the road.
Keep in mind y’all — 4 out of the 5 Supervisors are on the ballot this November. You don’t like this or the other development, or the other one, or the other one, ad infinitum. You have the power to vote them out.
For the last time this is not a “mixed-use” development. There is zero mixture of uses. This simply construction a suburban office development with some strip retail, some apartments and a few townhomes at the same time. But they are all separated. There is no mix!
Yep – it’s “adjacent-use”. Chesterfield can’t seem to do anything else.
Yep, same county doing the ugly superstructure concepts instead of freewaying Route 10 in the center on a bridge and having frontage roads right below it.
Hull Street South.
If it works, why stop?
What works about traffic on Hull St.? And 3 car washes within 3 miles of each other? Everyone is entitled to an opinion.
The economics work for the developers. I don’t like it either, but there’s not enough incentive for them to do anything differently, and the county can’t (or won’t) stop them. In the county’s defense, it’s either this or nothing in most cases.
I’d prefer nothing to this. We shall see I guess.
Dang it what happened to the “major” tenant that they had on the orignal plan, was hoping for another grocery store or a costco or something like that.
Must be the VCU Health building that is the “major” tenant. I also love the work, live, play that we always see too (along with the alleged mixed use). How many of the workers at ANY of the named retail spaces do you think could afford to live in one of the for sale (or even the rental) units??? Is the developer providing affordable housing set asides?? They don’t even had sidewalks or connections between the adjacent elementary and high schools along Courthouse Road extension.
The original plans had drawings indicating Costco….
Ridiculous. It’s too close to the monster store off Robious Road.
Many people opposed RT #288, this kind of “stuff” was why. The roads provide access, does the County have to grant it ?
Looks like VACU will shut down the old Chesterfield Credit Union branch behind the school board office and move it here. County employees were able to walk to that branch at lunch, but that will be a bit harder now.
I wonder what’s going to happen to that building. Maybe a real local credit union could use it, instead of one that acts like a big bank.
This development is kind of boring My latest irritant lately has been how many gas stations are they going to keep building in that I saw a zoning case for a new Sheetz Gas station at the intersection of Old Otterdale and Route 60. They have another on top of that at Old Hundred and Route 60 and some other thing Powhatan my question is how many gas stations are they going to build when they talk about oil running out or global woman or electric cars killing them off. I’m also shocked that I drive a EV and I… Read more »
Maybe you need to check your assumptions and see if they are, at the very least, assumptions? That’s something that I am learning to do and it has been helpful in my ability to at least not be so sure about what the future has in store. I find that, like Nassim Taleb’s Beruit taxi driver, I at least am not dangerously wrong, if not exactly correct. I also wonder why more gasstations, but kinda trust the builders of those to know if there will be more demand than I trust myself with that. I WILL say that there seems… Read more »
What I don’t understand as a parent at Gates elementary is why no tree buffer was left between the existing playground and parking lot and the anticipated apartment parking. That seems foolish to me, but what do I know, I’m not an urban planner, just a concerned parent.
Doesn’t that present a potential safety issue? I agree with you – a tree buffer between the development and the school should have been planned.
My family and I moved out to this area to GET AWAY from so much city like life. Now they are bringing the city to us. Eventually the traffic will get so bad that my current 2 minute drive to work (lol) will turn into a 20 minute wait in traffic kind of drive and I’m not excited at all. And with the elementary school being so close to all that stuff, makes me a little uneasy. If it doesn’t prosper and turn into a great area which I don’t forsee happening, then it’ll just turn into another abandoned area… Read more »
Oh COME ON! Medical office complexes with Outback Steakhouses and Paneras NEVER become hotbeds of crime….. don’t be silly now — unless you are talking 40 years into the future, and, who knows that far ahead — the entire Richmond region could become DETROIT — I mean, Detroit became Detroit — it went from being “Convention City” in the 1950s to business leaders warning politicians and union bosses that disaster was going to come if they didn’t quit the extremism to…. what it is now — COULD happen…. Baltimore was once a world class city…. But I don’t think so.… Read more »
Is there somewhere we can see the current and immediate future for the over loaded road system? In particular the Hull Street corridor from up to, and including Magnolia Green expand soon plans. Growth is inevitable, proper road/transportation planning is key to a happy and safe growing community. The area mentioned above is one of the most dangerous areas in the county.
Presumably the Powhite Parkway extension from 288 to Hull is coming – though that plan has been in the works for several decades. I believe plans for routing were finalized in 1989 and, to my knowledge, have not changed much if at all. Particularly as it relates to Magnolia Green, the expressway extension is reportedly becoming a high priority for the county.
I’ve not seen firm plans for other new roadways in that section of the county – I’m sure there’s more than just the expressway planned. No idea when these roads will materialize.
Here is a link to a presentation that Chesterfield’s transportation director gave to the Board of Supervisors outlining projects that are funded and under way or in various planning stages: Transportation and Mobility Services Update – September 27, 2023 – BOS Meeting – YouTube It’s 84 minutes long, so there’s obviously a lot of transportation improvements happening in the county. There is $360 million in funded projects that will be coming out of the ground over the next few years — including $170M for Phase I of the Powhite Parkway Extension — and will provide relief to residents living in… Read more »