Richmond’s Economic Development Authority is preparing a joint solicitation that it plans to issue with the Greater Richmond Convention Center Authority to gauge development interest in a 9-acre assemblage that includes the shuttered arena and the site of a long-sought convention center hotel.
Plenty Unlimited has started site work on the first piece, a 100,000-square-foot vertical indoor farming facility for growing strawberries.
“The redevelopment of the Diamond District site is intended to be financially self-sustaining, meaning that the new development in the Diamond District will generate enough tax revenue to pay debt service for Community Development Authority bond financing,” new city documents state.
A conceptual plan shows a hotel, coffee shop, restaurant, gas station, bank and office space for the 20-acre site. But the county must first get approval from the FAA.
A grocery-anchored development is proposed in Midlothian, a private tennis facility is served up in Hanover, and the RRHA names a new chief executive.
The changes include shifting one of the apartment towers 81 feet to the east and 20 feet closer to the river, while adding height and decreasing length on the other, all to maintain more of the brewery’s riverfront view.
The 7-acre wooded tract had been owned by Gumenick Properties, which had previously secured approval for a 10-story condo project.
Markel | Eagle Partners withdrew its request for a rezoning for age-restricted homes between Pouncey Tract Road and Quarry Hill Road, while it continues with plans for an 80-home subdivision across the border in Henrico.
Sterilization Services of Virginia’s location at Eastport Industrial Park is one of 23 sites nationwide emitting ethylene oxide at rates found to be hazardous for the surrounding community.
“The prospect of being able to take a BRT from Chesterfield Towne Center into the city on Midlothian Turnpike is a gamechanger. That would be huge for my district, to be able to go out and work in the counties,” said Councilman Michael Jones.
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