Commercial Real Estate

Among the buyer’s group is Queenswood Partners, a new local real estate firm launched by industry veteran Andy Little.

Developer Collins Enterprises is at the halfway point of construction for the 300-unit building that also will house 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail on the site of the old Spring Rock Green shopping center.

The Story family, which until last year owned James River Transportation, has now sold 8 acres in the Newtowne West neighborhood for a total of $16.4 million.

Plans unveiled Thursday show six-story apartment buildings at Brook and Overbrook roads, with part of the 1930s-era Richmond Community Hospital building worked into one of them.

Henrico-based JP Hospitality wants to build two 110-room hotels as well as a one-story, 6,000-square-foot commercial building on a nearly 10-acre site at 9500 Midlothian Turnpike.

“At this point, it’s the worst building on the block. When we’re done it’ll be one of the best,” Parks said. “It’ll be a great way to bring the feel of a neighborhood up.”

The new home of the Richmond Flying Squirrels is coming into fuller view via updated renderings recently submitted to the city.

Maritza Pechin, who left City Hall last year for a federal job, has joined TRP as director of development with a sole initial focus on the Diamond District project.

The 320-unit project would rise on the site of the former Dairy Bar and Tang & Biscuit buildings. About a third of the units are planned to be “hotel apartments,” which would be furnished and available for shorter stays.

A Maryland-based developer’s recent eight-figure land deal has teed up a project that would add up to 2 million square feet of new industrial space in western New Kent County.