Dr. Neil Zemmel is planning to open a Chesterfield location of Richmond Aesthetic Surgery, a plastic surgery practice that has an existing location in Short Pump. (Images courtesy Richmond Aesthetic Surgery)
A Short Pump-based plastic surgeon is going south of the river for a second location.
Richmond Aesthetic Surgery hopes to break ground this spring on a 33,000-square-foot medical office building at Cosby Village Square in western Chesterfield, according to owner Dr. Neil Zemmel.
The three-story building is anticipated to be a $12 million project, a figure that includes the recent acquisition of the 1.8-acre project site at 15545 Cosby Drive.
Loughridge and Co. has been tapped to serve as the project’s general contractor. PSH+ is the project’s architecture firm, and Townes Site Engineering is also involved in the project.
The Chesterfield office is expected to open in the spring or summer of 2026. Zemmel said his plastic surgery practice and Dermlounge, a medical spa concept he also owns, would occupy 5,500 square feet of the building, and the rest would be leased to other medical users. Zemmel said he’s looking for tenants like general medicine practitioners, specialists and dental practices to fill out the building.
Ellen Long of Taylor Long Properties is handling the office’s leasing.
“We’ve designed the building to bring in a lot of beautiful, natural light. We’re going to have nice views, and we’re going to have a very warm, inviting patient experience. We want it to be clean, very spa-like,” Zemmel said.
A rendering of the 33,000-square-foot medical office that would be built at Cosby Village Square.
The upcoming Chesterfield office would be the second location for Zemmel’s practice, which has an existing office at 11934 W. Broad St. in Henrico.
Zemmel was inspired to expand to western Chesterfield because the area is similar to what Short Pump was like when he was preparing to establish his practice there a decade ago – on the edge of the region’s growth with an increasing population in need of nearby medical services.
“I sort of view this like where we put our building in 2014. GreenGate (shopping center) wasn’t there, all of that wasn’t there in Short Pump, and this really echoes what it looked like out there,” he said. “We felt like this is the frontier of development, and it seemed like a fantastic location to bring a Class-A medical building.”
Zemmel would be the sole owner of the building planned for Cosby Village Square. He is a co-owner of the Short Pump building where Richmond Aesthetic Surgery first opened in late 2016.
Zemmel acquired the Chesterfield site in December for $2 million from Main Street Homes, which is developing the overall Cosby Village Square project taking shape near the Hull Street and Otterdale Road intersection. Ice cream shop Kline’s Dairy Bar, Starbucks and Chipotle are among the businesses open at the center. Steakhouse chain Firebirds is planning to open a location in the development as well.
Dr. Neil Zemmel is planning to open a Chesterfield location of Richmond Aesthetic Surgery, a plastic surgery practice that has an existing location in Short Pump. (Images courtesy Richmond Aesthetic Surgery)
A Short Pump-based plastic surgeon is going south of the river for a second location.
Richmond Aesthetic Surgery hopes to break ground this spring on a 33,000-square-foot medical office building at Cosby Village Square in western Chesterfield, according to owner Dr. Neil Zemmel.
The three-story building is anticipated to be a $12 million project, a figure that includes the recent acquisition of the 1.8-acre project site at 15545 Cosby Drive.
Loughridge and Co. has been tapped to serve as the project’s general contractor. PSH+ is the project’s architecture firm, and Townes Site Engineering is also involved in the project.
The Chesterfield office is expected to open in the spring or summer of 2026. Zemmel said his plastic surgery practice and Dermlounge, a medical spa concept he also owns, would occupy 5,500 square feet of the building, and the rest would be leased to other medical users. Zemmel said he’s looking for tenants like general medicine practitioners, specialists and dental practices to fill out the building.
Ellen Long of Taylor Long Properties is handling the office’s leasing.
“We’ve designed the building to bring in a lot of beautiful, natural light. We’re going to have nice views, and we’re going to have a very warm, inviting patient experience. We want it to be clean, very spa-like,” Zemmel said.
A rendering of the 33,000-square-foot medical office that would be built at Cosby Village Square.
The upcoming Chesterfield office would be the second location for Zemmel’s practice, which has an existing office at 11934 W. Broad St. in Henrico.
Zemmel was inspired to expand to western Chesterfield because the area is similar to what Short Pump was like when he was preparing to establish his practice there a decade ago – on the edge of the region’s growth with an increasing population in need of nearby medical services.
“I sort of view this like where we put our building in 2014. GreenGate (shopping center) wasn’t there, all of that wasn’t there in Short Pump, and this really echoes what it looked like out there,” he said. “We felt like this is the frontier of development, and it seemed like a fantastic location to bring a Class-A medical building.”
Zemmel would be the sole owner of the building planned for Cosby Village Square. He is a co-owner of the Short Pump building where Richmond Aesthetic Surgery first opened in late 2016.
Zemmel acquired the Chesterfield site in December for $2 million from Main Street Homes, which is developing the overall Cosby Village Square project taking shape near the Hull Street and Otterdale Road intersection. Ice cream shop Kline’s Dairy Bar, Starbucks and Chipotle are among the businesses open at the center. Steakhouse chain Firebirds is planning to open a location in the development as well.
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