The Richmond company, which has grown to making 80,000 to 100,000 ice cream sandwiches a day, will soon be able to at least triple its production capacity with the opening of a new 29,000-square-foot facility.
The Henrico-based firm has entered into a joint venture to acquire and develop the roughly 95-acre site, which will house four buildings with 820,000 square feet of warehouse space.
“What those walls saw would scare your grandmother,” said Philip Crosby. “It’s a bit of a legendary building.
More than 1,300 acres in western Chesterfield are now teed up for development as data center campuses.
The roughly 30-year-old structure has drawn plenty of interest and headlines over the years. It was, perhaps most notably, where a food co-op was planned to open in the 2010s.
Despite receiving a $1.6 million bid at auction, a group of three mixed-use building is going back on the market. And just up the street, another trio has just changed hands.
The seller in the deal was Jim Farinholt, a former investment banker who developed the deck in the 1980s, around the time that Farinholt started a nine-year stint on VCU’s Board of Visitors.
Named for the former Weiman’s Bakery building that once stood on the site, the 12-story tower is the tallest new apartment building to rise in Shockoe Bottom in recent years.
The ’90s-era building sits on 17 acres at the northern end of Innsbrook, about 1.5 miles from Dominion’s recently renovated technical center.
The company wants to build three 1,500-square-foot storefronts, and a 2,500-square-foot restaurant space on part of a 1-acre grassy area on Old Brick Road.
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