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The bonds would provide a form of bridge financing for the projects, the costs of which are expected to exceed the roughly $10 million in forecasted revenues from so-called passenger facility charges.

The transit authority will redevelop a former church property for additional parking as eyes the rollout of new 60-foot articulated buses to operate on the rapid-transit Pulse line next year.

The county expects to have four more athletic fields operational at River City Sportsplex this fall. The expansion will bring the 115-acre youth tournament complex to a total of 16 fields.

The county EDA announced the launch of the Henrico Global Business Gateway, an initiative to attract foreign-based companies that will operate out of the planned Gather West End in Innsbrook.

The planned 96-unit development from local firm The Real McCoy Companies earned special-use permit approval, as did Space Mountain Hi-Fi, an audio-focused bar from the owners of Cobra Cabana and Hot For Pizza.

Tuesday’s hours-long meeting saw four of Henrico’s five supervisors address their Goochland counterparts alongside Westin Estates residents who spoke against the approval.

The transfer hub is planned to be built as part of a mixed-use development, which would feature apartments and retail space in addition to the GRTC facility.

Officials converged on Bryan Park to mark the start of construction of Richmond’s 13-mile portion of the 43-mile trail that’s planned to run between Ashland and Petersburg.

“All of my employees are worried about whether they’ll have a job in 17 months,” said Million Air Richmond’s Mark Cooke said. “I can’t get any new customers… my customers that I have are being courted by other airports.”

“From there, we can start to look at Pulse all the way to Short Pump,” a GRTC spokesman said of the new transfer station planned at Broad and Parham.