Commercial Real Estate

A stretch of the city’s Northside is continuing to attract developer interest, as a mystery group is looking to bring 10 floors of new construction to the neighborhood. 

The Fortune 500 food distribution giant is up and running at its newly built 332,000-square-foot sales and distribution center at 10399 Washington Highway.

The dealership would rise on a site that was approved eight years ago for a memory care facility. It’s also across the street from a rival car dealership.

An LLC tied to Fairfax-based Sugar Mill Construction is behind the project along a stretch of Lombardy Street just west of Chamberlayne Avenue.

The nearly nine-figure project that’ll transform a large chunk of Arthur Ashe Boulevard is officially underway, and it may soon be joined by a long-planned cohousing concept up the street.

“The developer exploited our desire to partner with the city…to push a grossly one-sided project that offers limited value to VCU Health but saddles us with all of the project’s costs and risks,” then-VCU Health CEO Art Kellermann said days before signing off on the deal.

Mercer Street Partners, whose other local deals have been for apartments and a stake of Common House social club, now has a small downtown office building in its portfolio.

Developer David “Poppy” Levine and Ben Edlavitch, an architecture student at UVA, teamed up for the show 16 years after Levine gave his grandson his first Lego set.

The effort to redevelop the old Spring Rock Green shopping center now includes plans for a grocery store, one of the project’s developers said this week.

Thalhimer Realty Partners, which is already involved in bringing a sizable pickleball facility to western Henrico, is looking to bring another racquet sports venue to the downtown waterfront.