Shamin Hotels plans to build a 12-story Hilton with more than 270 rooms at the Springline at District 60 mixed-use project in Chesterfield. (Images courtesy of Cooper Carry)
Shamin Hotels, the region’s largest privately owned hotelier, is moving forward with construction of the first of two new properties planned for the Springline at District 60 development in Chesterfield.
The firm plans to break ground in mid-2025 on a 12-story Hilton with more than 270 rooms at the large mixed-use development taking shape on Midlothian Turnpike, Shamin CEO Neil Amin said in an interview last week.
The hotel is anticipated to cost more than $100 million and is envisioned as a conference and events hub. It is currently planned to have 34,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 12,600-square-foot ballroom.
Amin said the hotel and conference center is intended to fill a gap in Chesterfield County and would seek to attract regional and national events. It would also try to cater to business travel generated by new economic development in Chesterfield, like the upcoming Lego factory near Chester and the budding Upper Magnolia Green technology park near Moseley.
Neil Amin
“A full-service conference hotel is lacking in Chesterfield, especially in that part of the county,” Amin said. “(Springline) is a perfect location for an upscale hotel.”
The Hilton is planned to have a ground-floor Italian restaurant, as well as a beer garden and terrace on the second floor. Amin said the hotel is being designed to take advantage of its proximity to a planned park at Springline, where concerts and events would be held, in a bid to help further create a distinctive experience compared to competitors.
“A lot of people don’t necessarily just want to have an event in a meeting space, they want to have an event in a unique space,” he said.
The hotel’s top floor would be devoted to amenities like a pool, fitness center and a rooftop Asian restaurant with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and views of Richmond’s skyline, which is about 6 miles to the northeast.
Shamin filed a building permit for the Hilton project earlier this month. Amin anticipated it would take 24 months to build the hotel once it breaks ground. He said it would be the first full-service hotel built in the region since Shamin opened its Short Pump Hilton in 2009.
Atlanta-based Cooper Carry was tapped to handle the hotel’s architectural design. Amin said a general contractor hasn’t been selected yet.
The Hilton would rise on a nearly 3-acre parcel at 7240 Midlothian Turnpike, which is adjacent to The James mixed-use building that’s underway at Springline.
Shamin is under contract to buy the project site from the Chesterfield Economic Development Authority. The land’s assessed value is $742,000, per online county records.
The Hilton would be the first of two Shamin properties at Springline. The other is an extended-stay hotel that would have more than 100 rooms and would be aimed at people who come to the area for youth tournaments held at Chesterfield’s River City Sportsplex and other sports tourism events.
Shamin’s hotel project is expected to break ground around the time first pieces of Springline are anticipated to finish construction.
The James project is bringing 300 apartments and 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail to Springline. Next to that is a 150,000-square-foot office that’s being built by local engineering firm Timmons Group to serve as its new headquarters. Both projects are slated to be completed in the first half of 2025.
The Hilton that Shamin Hotels is planning to build at Springline would be a conference hub and feature restaurants.
Springline is rising on the site of the former Spring Rock Green shopping center. The Chesterfield EDA acquired the 42-acre project site in 2021 and has since been selling off pieces of the site to developers to build out the project.
In addition to Shamin’s hotels, Springline is currently envisioned to consist of 120,000 square feet of retail, two 150,000-square-foot office buildings, more than 1,200 residential units, an entertainment venue and outdoor recreational spaces, per an October leasing flyer for the development. A police station is also planned.
Trey Blankinship, Ainslie Roland and Jamie Lanham of Segall Group are handling leasing at Springline.
Shamin’s Springline project is a successor to the company’s previous plans to build a hotel across the street at the Stonebridge development. That was to have been part of a hotel-anchored mixed-use project, Shamin still plans to develop a mixed-use project at the Stonebridge property but it won’t include a hotel.
The company had previously entered into a performance grant agreement with the county for a hotel at Stonebridge. That agreement was amended last year to allow Shamin to relocate the hotel component to Springline.
Shamin also is in the process of relocating its headquarters out of downtown’s Richmond Times-Dispatch building, which it owns, to a building that it recently acquired in the Boulders office complex in Chesterfield.