The Danish toymaker plans to break ground on the project this year and wrap up construction in 2025, the same year production at the factory is expected to begin.
Lego under contract to buy 340 acres in Meadowville Tech Park for $1B plant
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The Agenda: Local government briefs for 6.13.22
A Church Hill-area infill project and apartments rehab, a Varina food and music venue, and a reworked multiuse development in Hanover up for votes.
‘Richmond Real’: City unveils new brand campaign
“This isn’t your grandfather’s or your grandmother’s Richmond,” Mayor Levar Stoney declared in a video introducing the new branding, which aims to promote tourism and economic development.
Work starts on $23M apartment conversion of former nursing home site
Richmond and Henrico County set the stage for the 86-unit project three years ago, when they approved up to 105 units.
The Agenda: Local government briefs for 6.6.22
Rural counties finalize their budgets, a Chesterfield supervisor steps down to take a job with the attorney general’s office, and planning commissions meet this week in Richmond and Henrico.
Chesterfield OKs plan to redevelop Rockwood Square shopping center
Supervisors gave Stanley Martin Homes the green light to build 322 condominiums and townhomes on a 25-acre site currently occupied by the main retail strip and Rockwood Golf Park.
Chesterfield supervisors OK zoning for Upper Magnolia Green tech park
In a five-hour meeting Thursday, the board also OK’d zoning for hundreds of homes to join the tech park on 2,400 acres in western Chesterfield County.
Free bus rides will continue under newly approved GRTC budget
The authority earmarked $5.5 million to sustain the pandemic-born policy and grant funding is expected to keep it going through June 2025.
Multiple planning efforts and projects aiming to reconnect Jackson Ward
Work on a community plan for the neighborhood is coinciding with a related study that’s weighing options for improving connections across Interstate 64-95.
The Agenda: Local government briefs for 5.23.22
Chesterfield supervisors to vote on the Upper Magnolia rezoning plan, plus the City Council considers transferring the Richmond Coliseum property and amending the city’s master plan.