Collins Enterprises is preparing to build its second mixed-use building at the Springline development in Chesterfield, following The James building that’s nearing completion. (Images courtesy Chesterfield)
Next year is shaping up to be a notable one for the Springline at District 60 development in Chesterfield, with a second mixed-use building slated to break ground and some of the first phases at the site expected to finish construction.
Connecticut-based Collins Enterprises is finalizing plans for a 245-unit, six-story apartment building with 15,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and structured parking. It would be built in the northeast corner of the project site, which was formerly home to the Spring Rock Green shopping center.
The new building is expected to cost $80 million and is slated to start construction in the third quarter of 2025, company President Arthur Collins said last week. The project is envisioned to take 18 months to build.
The company also is nearing completion of The James, a six-story mixed-use building with 300 apartments and 30,000 square feet of commercial space. The $88 million project is expected to be finished by mid-2025, after breaking ground in the summer of 2023.
Collins said The James has seen strong interest from potential commercial tenants but had yet to sign any leases as of early last week. He said leasing of the apartments was to start next month, with residents anticipated to start moving in this spring. Commercial tenants could start to open at The James in mid-2025.
“It’s coming together very well and there have been no significant issues that would slow it down,” Collins said of the project overall. “We’re getting a lot of interest. In fact, there’s a restaurant group coming out this weekend.”
The first mixed-use building and office building at Springline is expected to be completed next year. A second mixed-use building and a Hilton hotel are anticipated to break ground in 2025.
The James’ general contractor is Clancy & Theys Construction Co. LaBella Associates, formerly Odell Associates locally, was tapped to handle the project’s design.
Collins said he anticipated that the same team would handle the second mixed-use building at the site but agreements hadn’t been finalized yet.
The second building is expected to rise next to Springline’s planned entertainment venue, which has long been envisioned as part of the project but has evolved since it was initially announced in late 2021.
The county’s initial plan for two NHL-sized rinks at Springline is no longer on the table. Chesterfield Economic Development Director Garrett Hart attributed that change to the recent introduction of an expanded hotel element at the project.
The plan now calls for two Springline hotels from locally based Shamin Hotels, which intends to break ground in mid-2025 on the first of those: a $100 million, 12-story Hilton with more than 270 rooms and 34,000 square feet of meeting space. Previously, county officials envisioned a single hotel at the project.
“Based on the master plan with the Hilton, there’s not enough room for hockey here,” Hart said.
Springline is expected to feature 120,000 square feet of retail, two 150,000-square-foot office buildings, two hotels and more than 1,200 residential units, among other development.
Still in early planning stages, the new entertainment venue would occupy a three-story building that also would feature corporate office space. While the venue is described in a marketing brochure as simply an “entertainment” venue, Hart said the facility could feature sports uses.
“We’re trying to identify a single user who will bring people to the facility,” Hart said. “We’re not sure whether that’s going to be entertainment related, or sports related, or both.”
Also in Springline’s northeast corner along with the entertainment venue and mixed-use building is a 1,340-space parking garage, which Hart said is now complete. The $20 million garage accounts for about half of a $44 million package of infrastructure, including roads and utilities, and parking improvements at Springline being paid for by Chesterfield County. Taxes collected from the property would cover the infrastructure and parking improvements under a tax increment financing program.
A rendering of the entertainment venue planned at the Springline development.
At Springline’s southeast corner, Timmons Group expects to finish construction next year on a 150,000-square-foot office building. The local engineering firm is the developer of the project, which will become its new headquarters and also home to Chesterfield’s economic development department and school division offices. People are expected to start moving into the building in the spring.
Hourigan was tapped to be the office building’s general contractor, and Baskervill is handling the design.
Springline’s central outdoor amenity, Celebration Park, is slated to open in the late summer or fall of next year. The green space between The James and the Hilton is intended to host a variety of events, such as concerts and art shows, to draw people to the development.
Now expected to cost $1 billion, Springline is envisioned as having 120,000 square feet of retail space, a pair of 150,000-square-foot office buildings, more than 1,300 structured parking spaces, two hotels, and more than 1,200 residential units.
The project is anticipated to feature a police station and a small-format grocery store, which isn’t currently tied to a specific location at the site.
Jamie Lanham, Trey Blankinship and Ainslie Roland of Segall Group are handling retail leasing for Springline.
Hart said the Springline project, with its mixed-use buildings and structured parking, is new ground for Chesterfield, which acquired the Spring Rock Green site in 2021 and has since been selling off parts of the overall site to developers. The goal is to cater to the live-work-play trend of mixed-use construction that Hart said is sought by newcomers to the growing county.
“I think it’s going to be a unique property in the region and especially a unique property in Chesterfield, being this urban,” he said. “We’re doing a good job of winning the talent-attraction war. … This will be a really nice place for them to live and provide the kind of lifestyle that they want.”
Collins Enterprises is preparing to build its second mixed-use building at the Springline development in Chesterfield, following The James building that’s nearing completion. (Images courtesy Chesterfield)
Next year is shaping up to be a notable one for the Springline at District 60 development in Chesterfield, with a second mixed-use building slated to break ground and some of the first phases at the site expected to finish construction.
Connecticut-based Collins Enterprises is finalizing plans for a 245-unit, six-story apartment building with 15,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and structured parking. It would be built in the northeast corner of the project site, which was formerly home to the Spring Rock Green shopping center.
The new building is expected to cost $80 million and is slated to start construction in the third quarter of 2025, company President Arthur Collins said last week. The project is envisioned to take 18 months to build.
The company also is nearing completion of The James, a six-story mixed-use building with 300 apartments and 30,000 square feet of commercial space. The $88 million project is expected to be finished by mid-2025, after breaking ground in the summer of 2023.
Collins said The James has seen strong interest from potential commercial tenants but had yet to sign any leases as of early last week. He said leasing of the apartments was to start next month, with residents anticipated to start moving in this spring. Commercial tenants could start to open at The James in mid-2025.
“It’s coming together very well and there have been no significant issues that would slow it down,” Collins said of the project overall. “We’re getting a lot of interest. In fact, there’s a restaurant group coming out this weekend.”
The first mixed-use building and office building at Springline is expected to be completed next year. A second mixed-use building and a Hilton hotel are anticipated to break ground in 2025.
The James’ general contractor is Clancy & Theys Construction Co. LaBella Associates, formerly Odell Associates locally, was tapped to handle the project’s design.
Collins said he anticipated that the same team would handle the second mixed-use building at the site but agreements hadn’t been finalized yet.
The second building is expected to rise next to Springline’s planned entertainment venue, which has long been envisioned as part of the project but has evolved since it was initially announced in late 2021.
The county’s initial plan for two NHL-sized rinks at Springline is no longer on the table. Chesterfield Economic Development Director Garrett Hart attributed that change to the recent introduction of an expanded hotel element at the project.
The plan now calls for two Springline hotels from locally based Shamin Hotels, which intends to break ground in mid-2025 on the first of those: a $100 million, 12-story Hilton with more than 270 rooms and 34,000 square feet of meeting space. Previously, county officials envisioned a single hotel at the project.
“Based on the master plan with the Hilton, there’s not enough room for hockey here,” Hart said.
Springline is expected to feature 120,000 square feet of retail, two 150,000-square-foot office buildings, two hotels and more than 1,200 residential units, among other development.
Still in early planning stages, the new entertainment venue would occupy a three-story building that also would feature corporate office space. While the venue is described in a marketing brochure as simply an “entertainment” venue, Hart said the facility could feature sports uses.
“We’re trying to identify a single user who will bring people to the facility,” Hart said. “We’re not sure whether that’s going to be entertainment related, or sports related, or both.”
Also in Springline’s northeast corner along with the entertainment venue and mixed-use building is a 1,340-space parking garage, which Hart said is now complete. The $20 million garage accounts for about half of a $44 million package of infrastructure, including roads and utilities, and parking improvements at Springline being paid for by Chesterfield County. Taxes collected from the property would cover the infrastructure and parking improvements under a tax increment financing program.
A rendering of the entertainment venue planned at the Springline development.
At Springline’s southeast corner, Timmons Group expects to finish construction next year on a 150,000-square-foot office building. The local engineering firm is the developer of the project, which will become its new headquarters and also home to Chesterfield’s economic development department and school division offices. People are expected to start moving into the building in the spring.
Hourigan was tapped to be the office building’s general contractor, and Baskervill is handling the design.
Springline’s central outdoor amenity, Celebration Park, is slated to open in the late summer or fall of next year. The green space between The James and the Hilton is intended to host a variety of events, such as concerts and art shows, to draw people to the development.
Now expected to cost $1 billion, Springline is envisioned as having 120,000 square feet of retail space, a pair of 150,000-square-foot office buildings, more than 1,300 structured parking spaces, two hotels, and more than 1,200 residential units.
The project is anticipated to feature a police station and a small-format grocery store, which isn’t currently tied to a specific location at the site.
Jamie Lanham, Trey Blankinship and Ainslie Roland of Segall Group are handling retail leasing for Springline.
Hart said the Springline project, with its mixed-use buildings and structured parking, is new ground for Chesterfield, which acquired the Spring Rock Green site in 2021 and has since been selling off parts of the overall site to developers. The goal is to cater to the live-work-play trend of mixed-use construction that Hart said is sought by newcomers to the growing county.
“I think it’s going to be a unique property in the region and especially a unique property in Chesterfield, being this urban,” he said. “We’re doing a good job of winning the talent-attraction war. … This will be a really nice place for them to live and provide the kind of lifestyle that they want.”
Developers from other parts of the country have long been fascinated by the location and access this interchange provided the region after Richmond’s money moved west from it. It required a surge of redevelopment money from Chesterfields credit lines and the faith of two of the regions mainstay developers, Timmons and Shamin to bring it about. Collins from Florida took the first step forward from the “outside” to build apartments after noting the success by Boyd from Virginia Beach across the highway. Sometimes it takes a viewpoint from afar to see opportunities that lie before our eyes.
So success is 1/2 built out site after what 15 years since Kroger opened??? What is 50% vacancy in the smaller storefronts at Stonebridge? Springline is NOT urban with its clearly visible paved parking lots going in and setbacks being way off the street/sidewalk areas. And well the hockey is gone because of the 2nd hotel??? Why can’t politicians and ED officials tell the truth….there is NO sustainable demand or support for a hockey rink or team (and yes I loved the Renegades). The retail development will be a 2-3 fast casual places, with maybe one sit down establishment, and… Read more »
The rinks wouldn’t be for a team but rather for travel hockey team tournaments. Apparently ice time is hard to find and there is a large need for these.
Couldn’t agree more, Bruce. Very well said, my friend. 🙂👍
The site plan looks pretty good. Glad to see not a lot of surface parking lots. Really hope to see Midlothian Turnpike uplifted – both in terms of land use and the road itself. It’s ugly and awful to drive on.
It’s a shame about the ice rinks. Richmond could really use more ice opportunities.
The traffic in that area is already terrible. The lights aren’t timed well. Can’t wait to see how much worse this is going to make it.