“I don’t know that there’s anything like it in Richmond, honestly,” buyer Murry Pitts said of the building’s modern-design condo. “And the rooftop is something out of New York magazine.”
Behind the proposal is Louis Salomonsky, who redeveloped the former city school in the mid-1990s.
The city’s Commission of Architectural Review greenlit Bank Street Advisors’ design. Virginia Credit Union’s plan for an ATM at a forthcoming branch up the street also got a thumbs up.
Joseph Lawson, Cabell Childress and Jess McLaughlin of Long & Foster want to redevelop the long-dormant Manor at Woodland Heights building.
An existing warehouse on the site would be razed to make way for the development, though a brick smokestack at the back of the property would be retained and incorporated into the new building.
The triangular-shaped, three-story building is planned to include 22 apartments and nine street-level “tourist home” units.
The reductions followed complaints from developers and other applicants about slow turnaround times in permitting and inspections and costs of outsourcing reviews to third parties.
A rezoning application with Chesterfield County shows five townhome-style buildings and four larger apartment buildings with 324 units on 31 acres.
TForce Freight is putting its Richmond headquarters at 1000 Semmes Ave. up for sale, a move that could free up eight acres of prime real estate south of the river.
“The two developments will form up a gateway into Church Hill through Glenwood Avenue,” said Daniil Kleyman, who also plans to build more than 100 apartments.
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