The Shire Walk development under construction at John Rolfe Parkway’s crossroads with Church and Pump roads. (Images courtesy Main Street Homes)
As it continues work on dozens of new townhomes at its Shire Walk development near Short Pump, Main Street Homes is setting the stage to build a few dozen more across the street.
The Midlothian-based firm secured zoning approval last week for 41 townhomes on 6.5 acres on Church Road west of its intersection with John Rolfe Parkway.
The site is beside the BP gas station and Waffle House at the intersection and across Church from Shire Walk, where Main Street is building 81 townhomes on 8-acres near John Rolfe and Pump Road.
The reoriented layout for the Proffitt’s Mill townhomes along Church Road.
The approval from Henrico supervisors followed several deferrals that led to some modifications to the plan, including a reorientation of the townhomes’ layout and inclusion of a stub road to accommodate a connection with potential future development west of the site.
The project adds to Main Street’s workload in Henrico, where company President Vernon McClure said it’s about halfway through construction of the 3- and 3½-story townhomes at Shire Walk. The 41 townhomes across the street will be two stories tall but similarly priced in the $500,000s. Unit sizes are expected to be around 2,000 square feet.
Conceptual renderings of the two-story townhomes.
McClure said the new project, to be called Proffitt’s Mill for a stairway and millwork shop that used to operate there, came to Main Street’s attention as it’s been working on Shire Walk. Site work there started in 2023, after Main Street picked up the project from Rebkee Co.
Vernon McClure
“Just being over there in Shire Walk, we were looking around because we liked the area,” McClure said. “We came across (the Proffitt site) and added a few parcels together. It’s kind of an infill project, in a way.”
Main Street is under contract to purchase the site, which consists of three parcels owned by the Proffitt family and two others under different ownership. The five parcels are assessed by the county at over $1 million.
Nadeem Khan with Samson Properties is representing the sellers in the deal.
McClure said work on the project would start in about a year, following development plan submittals and reviews. Sales are expected to start in late 2026.
As for Shire Walk, McClure said around 32 units have been built and construction is set to start on the development’s fifth building. Eighteen of the units have been sold so far, and a model unit was completed a week ago and is replacing a trailer that served as the sales office.
Completed units at Shire Walk.
Upcoming construction will include the taller, 3½-story townhomes, some of which will include top-floor terraces. The homes at Shire Walk range in size from 2,100 to 2,600 square feet, and the development will include a roughly 7,000-square-foot commercial space and a plaza-style amenity near the corner of Church and John Rolfe.
Main Street’s townhomes in Henrico add to a growing workload for the company on both sides of the river. In Chesterfield, it’s set to start this year on Swift Creek Station, an 800-home development near Brandermill it picked up from Realty Ventures Group with a $26 million land purchase late last year.
It’s also planning a 34-home subdivision on 17 acres at 500 Old Otterdale Road, across Route 288 from Watkins Centre Parkway.
Last month, Main Street announced its conversion to an employee stock ownership plan, a structure that provides shares in the 29-year-old company to its 90 employees.
The Shire Walk development under construction at John Rolfe Parkway’s crossroads with Church and Pump roads. (Images courtesy Main Street Homes)
As it continues work on dozens of new townhomes at its Shire Walk development near Short Pump, Main Street Homes is setting the stage to build a few dozen more across the street.
The Midlothian-based firm secured zoning approval last week for 41 townhomes on 6.5 acres on Church Road west of its intersection with John Rolfe Parkway.
The site is beside the BP gas station and Waffle House at the intersection and across Church from Shire Walk, where Main Street is building 81 townhomes on 8-acres near John Rolfe and Pump Road.
The reoriented layout for the Proffitt’s Mill townhomes along Church Road.
The approval from Henrico supervisors followed several deferrals that led to some modifications to the plan, including a reorientation of the townhomes’ layout and inclusion of a stub road to accommodate a connection with potential future development west of the site.
The project adds to Main Street’s workload in Henrico, where company President Vernon McClure said it’s about halfway through construction of the 3- and 3½-story townhomes at Shire Walk. The 41 townhomes across the street will be two stories tall but similarly priced in the $500,000s. Unit sizes are expected to be around 2,000 square feet.
Conceptual renderings of the two-story townhomes.
McClure said the new project, to be called Proffitt’s Mill for a stairway and millwork shop that used to operate there, came to Main Street’s attention as it’s been working on Shire Walk. Site work there started in 2023, after Main Street picked up the project from Rebkee Co.
Vernon McClure
“Just being over there in Shire Walk, we were looking around because we liked the area,” McClure said. “We came across (the Proffitt site) and added a few parcels together. It’s kind of an infill project, in a way.”
Main Street is under contract to purchase the site, which consists of three parcels owned by the Proffitt family and two others under different ownership. The five parcels are assessed by the county at over $1 million.
Nadeem Khan with Samson Properties is representing the sellers in the deal.
McClure said work on the project would start in about a year, following development plan submittals and reviews. Sales are expected to start in late 2026.
As for Shire Walk, McClure said around 32 units have been built and construction is set to start on the development’s fifth building. Eighteen of the units have been sold so far, and a model unit was completed a week ago and is replacing a trailer that served as the sales office.
Completed units at Shire Walk.
Upcoming construction will include the taller, 3½-story townhomes, some of which will include top-floor terraces. The homes at Shire Walk range in size from 2,100 to 2,600 square feet, and the development will include a roughly 7,000-square-foot commercial space and a plaza-style amenity near the corner of Church and John Rolfe.
Main Street’s townhomes in Henrico add to a growing workload for the company on both sides of the river. In Chesterfield, it’s set to start this year on Swift Creek Station, an 800-home development near Brandermill it picked up from Realty Ventures Group with a $26 million land purchase late last year.
It’s also planning a 34-home subdivision on 17 acres at 500 Old Otterdale Road, across Route 288 from Watkins Centre Parkway.
Last month, Main Street announced its conversion to an employee stock ownership plan, a structure that provides shares in the 29-year-old company to its 90 employees.
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