A local moving and storage company’s need for more space has prompted a plan for new industrial buildings off Williamsburg and Charles City roads in Varina.
The owners of D1 Moving & Storage and its commercial division, RCS Moving & Storage, are working with real estate investment firm Lingerfelt to develop 47 acres along and between the roads west of their intersection in Henrico’s Montrose area.
The group is planning four buildings totaling more than 250,000 square feet of space for industrial office and warehouse uses. One of the buildings would be used by D1/RCS, which occupies a warehouse nearby at 3215 Williamsburg Road. The rest of the buildings would be built on spec.
Lingerfelt Managing Director Brian Witthoefft said the plan arose from D1’s need for more space, having maxed out the 52,500-square-foot warehouse it bought three years ago. The company is headquartered at 4817 Bethlehem Road.
Brian Witthoefft
“We started looking at, on the moving company’s behalf, opportunities to either expand them or help facilitate developing a second building for them” Witthoefft said. “We started to look at neighboring parcels.”
The additional space for the company would come by way of a 177,000-square-foot office and warehouse building that’s planned next door at 3601 and 3707 Williamsburg Road, two parcels owned by Trimmer Properties LLC that total 17 acres.
Witthoefft said D1/RCS would take a portion of that building, while the rest would be spec space. The building is planned to have 38 rear loading docks. A vacant retail building at 3707 Williamsburg Road would be razed to make way for the development.
The other buildings would rise on four other parcels that make up the acreage: a 70,500-square-foot warehouse with 30 loading docks on 8 acres at 2103 and 2129 Charles City Road; a warehouse on 5.5 acres at 2054 Charles City Road, the building’s size to be determined; and a 24,000-square-foot warehouse with a rear storage yard on a 16-acre parcel with no street address that stretches from Charles City to Williamsburg Road.
Lingerfelt would develop the buildings, and the land would be owned through a joint venture with an LLC tied to D1/RCS principals Alec and Tom Vozenilek. Witthoefft said they have contracts to purchase the parcels, which are under different ownerships. The parcels are assessed by the county at $812,000 combined.
Attempts to reach the Vozenileks for comment were unsuccessful. Alec is the company’s president and CEO, while his father, Tom, handles business development. The company was founded in 2015.
Tom also is a shareholder and executive vice president at Colliers and helped broker the company’s purchase of 3215 Williamsburg Road, a 5-acre property it bought in 2020 for $2.2 million.
D1/RCS’s warehouse at 3215 Williamsburg Road. (Henrico property record photo)
According to a Colliers announcement at the time, D1/RCS uses the building for packing, long-term storage, junk hauls, auction pickups, package receiving and delivery. The property was previously owned by Mitchell’s Formal Wear.
Lingerfelt and the Vozenileks are seeking to rezone the properties for light industrial use. Andy Condlin with law firm Roth Jackson Gibbons Condlin is representing them in their requests, which are being made individually.
The Henrico Planning Commission supported four of the requests at its meeting in November. The Board of Supervisors was scheduled to consider those at its Dec. 12 meeting but deferred them to its first meeting in February at the request of the applicants, which have since added the parcel at 3707 Williamsburg Road to the mix. A fifth request for that parcel is scheduled to go before the commission at its Jan. 11 meeting.
The project adds to Lingerfelt’s push into industrial investment and development. In March, the local company and Partners Group, a global investment firm, closed on a $105 million purchase of Walthall Distribution Center near Chester and Northlake Distribution Center near Ashland.
A local moving and storage company’s need for more space has prompted a plan for new industrial buildings off Williamsburg and Charles City roads in Varina.
The owners of D1 Moving & Storage and its commercial division, RCS Moving & Storage, are working with real estate investment firm Lingerfelt to develop 47 acres along and between the roads west of their intersection in Henrico’s Montrose area.
The group is planning four buildings totaling more than 250,000 square feet of space for industrial office and warehouse uses. One of the buildings would be used by D1/RCS, which occupies a warehouse nearby at 3215 Williamsburg Road. The rest of the buildings would be built on spec.
Lingerfelt Managing Director Brian Witthoefft said the plan arose from D1’s need for more space, having maxed out the 52,500-square-foot warehouse it bought three years ago. The company is headquartered at 4817 Bethlehem Road.
Brian Witthoefft
“We started looking at, on the moving company’s behalf, opportunities to either expand them or help facilitate developing a second building for them” Witthoefft said. “We started to look at neighboring parcels.”
The additional space for the company would come by way of a 177,000-square-foot office and warehouse building that’s planned next door at 3601 and 3707 Williamsburg Road, two parcels owned by Trimmer Properties LLC that total 17 acres.
Witthoefft said D1/RCS would take a portion of that building, while the rest would be spec space. The building is planned to have 38 rear loading docks. A vacant retail building at 3707 Williamsburg Road would be razed to make way for the development.
The other buildings would rise on four other parcels that make up the acreage: a 70,500-square-foot warehouse with 30 loading docks on 8 acres at 2103 and 2129 Charles City Road; a warehouse on 5.5 acres at 2054 Charles City Road, the building’s size to be determined; and a 24,000-square-foot warehouse with a rear storage yard on a 16-acre parcel with no street address that stretches from Charles City to Williamsburg Road.
Lingerfelt would develop the buildings, and the land would be owned through a joint venture with an LLC tied to D1/RCS principals Alec and Tom Vozenilek. Witthoefft said they have contracts to purchase the parcels, which are under different ownerships. The parcels are assessed by the county at $812,000 combined.
Attempts to reach the Vozenileks for comment were unsuccessful. Alec is the company’s president and CEO, while his father, Tom, handles business development. The company was founded in 2015.
Tom also is a shareholder and executive vice president at Colliers and helped broker the company’s purchase of 3215 Williamsburg Road, a 5-acre property it bought in 2020 for $2.2 million.
D1/RCS’s warehouse at 3215 Williamsburg Road. (Henrico property record photo)
According to a Colliers announcement at the time, D1/RCS uses the building for packing, long-term storage, junk hauls, auction pickups, package receiving and delivery. The property was previously owned by Mitchell’s Formal Wear.
Lingerfelt and the Vozenileks are seeking to rezone the properties for light industrial use. Andy Condlin with law firm Roth Jackson Gibbons Condlin is representing them in their requests, which are being made individually.
The Henrico Planning Commission supported four of the requests at its meeting in November. The Board of Supervisors was scheduled to consider those at its Dec. 12 meeting but deferred them to its first meeting in February at the request of the applicants, which have since added the parcel at 3707 Williamsburg Road to the mix. A fifth request for that parcel is scheduled to go before the commission at its Jan. 11 meeting.
The project adds to Lingerfelt’s push into industrial investment and development. In March, the local company and Partners Group, a global investment firm, closed on a $105 million purchase of Walthall Distribution Center near Chester and Northlake Distribution Center near Ashland.
Congratulations! Very nice project.