Homes are beginning to rise at Fairways, Godsey Properties’ redevelopment of the former Glenwood Golf Course along Creighton Road. (Jonathan Spiers photos)
Where golfers teed off for nearly 100 years, the first batch of what’s planned to be nearly 300 homes across two subdivisions is beginning to take shape.
Ryan Homes has started construction on Fairways, the 290-home redevelopment of the former Glenwood Golf Course by local development firm Godsey Properties.
The two-story houses are planned to range from 1,350 to 3,000 square feet. Five options listed on Ryan Homes’ webpage for Fairways are priced between $400,000 and $490,000 and range in size from 1,800 to 2,700 square feet, each with at least four bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms and a two-car garage. One option includes a first-floor owner’s suite.
Ryan Homes is building the two-story houses.
The initial homes are in the first of four sections that ultimately will form two subdivisions separated by a creek that bisects the 120-acre property. Planned amenities include lighted trails as well as a park along the creek.
Development for Fairways got underway after Godsey closed on the property two years ago. The Varina-based company led by Doug Godsey paid $3 million for the property, which for nearly a century was the oldest public golf course in metro Richmond before it closed in 2022.
A site plan shows how the 290 homes would be separated by a creek that bisects the property.
Godsey has estimated the project cost at $25 million. A development plan for the fourth section is under review by Henrico and could be approved by the county’s planning director later this month.
The project includes upgrades to Creighton Road, with a $4 million investment from Godsey to widen and improve the road along the length of the property’s southeastern border. Henrico recently completed other improvements to the road as part of a $16 million project that realigned and expanded the road between Sandy Lane and Laburnum Avenue.
The development is accessed off Creighton Road.
Fairways is one of several projects Godsey is doing with Ryan, a Reston-based firm that’s the biggest homebuilder in the Richmond market based on sales and unit volume.
Ryan also is building homes at Godsey’s Landmark development, where sales started last year. The 100-acre, 400-home development is along Williamsburg Road west of Interstate 295 and beside Gateway at Landmark, an extension project that Godsey also is developing on about 50 acres next to the interstate. Nearly 500 homes are on deck for Ryan there.
Godsey had filed plans for two apartment buildings for seniors at Landmark, but those plans were withdrawn in February after the Henrico Planning Commission had previously deferred the case. The 310 apartments for renters age 55 and up were a change from Landmark’s original plan, which called for townhomes on the site behind a commercial section planned at Williamsburg and Dry Bridge roads.
Meanwhile, Godsey is looking to further add to its workload with a 140-home subdivision off Creighton Road. The homes are planned for 52 acres at the northern terminus of Westover Avenue and the eastern terminus of Waving Meadow Road. A rezoning request for that project was scheduled to go before the Planning Commission this month but was deferred to its April 10 meeting.
Homes are beginning to rise at Fairways, Godsey Properties’ redevelopment of the former Glenwood Golf Course along Creighton Road. (Jonathan Spiers photos)
Where golfers teed off for nearly 100 years, the first batch of what’s planned to be nearly 300 homes across two subdivisions is beginning to take shape.
Ryan Homes has started construction on Fairways, the 290-home redevelopment of the former Glenwood Golf Course by local development firm Godsey Properties.
The two-story houses are planned to range from 1,350 to 3,000 square feet. Five options listed on Ryan Homes’ webpage for Fairways are priced between $400,000 and $490,000 and range in size from 1,800 to 2,700 square feet, each with at least four bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms and a two-car garage. One option includes a first-floor owner’s suite.
Ryan Homes is building the two-story houses.
The initial homes are in the first of four sections that ultimately will form two subdivisions separated by a creek that bisects the 120-acre property. Planned amenities include lighted trails as well as a park along the creek.
Development for Fairways got underway after Godsey closed on the property two years ago. The Varina-based company led by Doug Godsey paid $3 million for the property, which for nearly a century was the oldest public golf course in metro Richmond before it closed in 2022.
A site plan shows how the 290 homes would be separated by a creek that bisects the property.
Godsey has estimated the project cost at $25 million. A development plan for the fourth section is under review by Henrico and could be approved by the county’s planning director later this month.
The project includes upgrades to Creighton Road, with a $4 million investment from Godsey to widen and improve the road along the length of the property’s southeastern border. Henrico recently completed other improvements to the road as part of a $16 million project that realigned and expanded the road between Sandy Lane and Laburnum Avenue.
The development is accessed off Creighton Road.
Fairways is one of several projects Godsey is doing with Ryan, a Reston-based firm that’s the biggest homebuilder in the Richmond market based on sales and unit volume.
Ryan also is building homes at Godsey’s Landmark development, where sales started last year. The 100-acre, 400-home development is along Williamsburg Road west of Interstate 295 and beside Gateway at Landmark, an extension project that Godsey also is developing on about 50 acres next to the interstate. Nearly 500 homes are on deck for Ryan there.
Godsey had filed plans for two apartment buildings for seniors at Landmark, but those plans were withdrawn in February after the Henrico Planning Commission had previously deferred the case. The 310 apartments for renters age 55 and up were a change from Landmark’s original plan, which called for townhomes on the site behind a commercial section planned at Williamsburg and Dry Bridge roads.
Meanwhile, Godsey is looking to further add to its workload with a 140-home subdivision off Creighton Road. The homes are planned for 52 acres at the northern terminus of Westover Avenue and the eastern terminus of Waving Meadow Road. A rezoning request for that project was scheduled to go before the Planning Commission this month but was deferred to its April 10 meeting.
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Godsey is making a significant investment in eastern Henrico, joining several other developers who have plans for homes there. The new residents will put pressure on the county for school upgrades as families fill up the bedrooms. Attitudes to the east end are changing. But then, where else is there to go?
Good point, Bruce. East really is the only place for larger-scale developments anymore. North is filling up (there are a few spots left, no?) but west is probably more a situation of either infill developments – or – something like what’s been going on with Libbie Mill, Westwood or Laurel (Woodman & Hungary roads coming to mind) where legacy mid-century SFH subdivisions – or – old defunct shopping centers are bought up, cleared & redeveloped.
The preservation of the stream corridor, trails, and the connection to Hidden Creek Park are great amenities for this subdivision.