Marketed as “an indoor wonderland,” the 55,000-square-foot venue consists of an 18-lane duckpin bowling alley, an 18-hole mini golf course, three virtual golf bays, three bars, a food hall with six restaurants, a beer garden area with 30 self-pour taps, a 200-person banquet hall and a 200-seat auditorium.
“I don’t know that there’s anything like it in Richmond, honestly,” buyer Murry Pitts said of the building’s modern-design condo. “And the rooftop is something out of New York magazine.”
Behind the proposal is Louis Salomonsky, who redeveloped the former city school in the mid-1990s.
“I didn’t want to give up Martin. I wrestled with the choice, and then I decided: what if I ask for both, which I know is rare and perhaps unorthodox,” she said.
Following the lead of his father, whose former L.A.-based agency was the first minority-owned firm hired by Nike for its “Just Do It” campaign in the early 1990s, Muse has found his way into leadership roles at Martin.
The resolutions are the first procedural advances for the arena-anchored mixed-used development since county supervisors approved the project last fall.
The triangular-shaped, three-story building is planned to include 22 apartments and nine street-level “tourist home” units.
The reductions followed complaints from developers and other applicants about slow turnaround times in permitting and inspections and costs of outsourcing reviews to third parties.
The transactions followed Churchill Downs Inc.’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of Peninsula Pacific Entertainment, which reopened the New Kent County racetrack in 2019.
Red Orange Studio has moved into the building its owners bought with the couple behind 510 Architects, which plans to move in next year.
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