The dispute centers on county supervisors’ rejection last November of a rezoning for Summerlyn, a $27 million project by Larry Shaia and Jesse Lennon that would have been Hanover’s first 55-and-up rental community.
Charlie Diradour’s Lion’s Paw Development is planning a three-story building with 14 apartments above ground-floor commercial space on a parking lot next to the Robinson Street Starbucks.
Some of the building’s 275 apartments will offer a view of the city’s new baseball stadium, as well as eclectic amenities such as a podcast recording studio and a speakeasy that’s hidden behind a moveable bookshelf.
The Capital City Physicians Building is at least the third distressed local office property Gagan Marwaha has snatched up in recent years.
Included in the deal was 398,000 square feet of retail space that’s occupied by tenants like Publix, Burlington and JCPenney. Not included were tenant-owned anchor buildings housing Target, Lowe’s and a T-Mobile call center, as well as outparcels on Laburnum.
The two five-story projects would add dozens of new apartments along a stretch of Broad that serves as a gateway between Shockoe Bottom and Church Hill.
The 266-unit project from Tennessee-based developer Elmington has the special-use permit it needs to proceed on a 7-acre site on McDonough Street.
“We’re in growth mode right now,” said local managing director Theresa DeBoer said. ”We want to have more of a presence in Richmond.”
The acquisition gives the company the land it needs to build a 280,000-square-foot facility that will manufacture electrolyzer cells for “clean hydrogen” fuel.
The final Hard Hat Happy Hour of 2024 offered a chance to see a two-for-one project in the making: the under-construction Sports Backers headquarters and a trailhead for the Fall Line Trail.
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