“We very much view the Diamond District as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Richmond to create this new and vibrant community,” said Natalie Mason of Capital Square, whose collaborators include the developer behind The Wharf mixed-use development in D.C.
A group of developers included D.C.-based Level 2 is planning 375 apartments for the 6-acre site, for which they paid $2.6 million per acre.
The Chesterfield Planning Commission gave the nod to a proposed technology park near Moseley on Tuesday, as well as advancing a request to rezone a shopping center and adjacent golf park for a residential redevelopment project pitched by Stanley Martin Homes. Both projects will need final approval from the Board of Supervisors, which will vote… Read more »
Folks in Charles City weren’t sure what to make of National Land Lease Capital, when the Richmond-based firm came knocking at the rural county three years ago with a plan for a multimillion-dollar RV resort along the Chickahominy River. The group, led by Yogi Singh, had an idea to rezone the old Blue Heron Marina… Read more »
Chesterfield County’s long-range plan to transform the aging Rockwood retail corridor is about to get a kick-off from a Reston-based builder with a busy Richmond-area pipeline.
“The only way to really know how to do it is to have done it,” said MAG’s MaryAnne Gilmartin, whose development credits include Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena and a surrounding mixed-use development.
“I worked a lot on that master plan, and I wanted to be able to see something come out of it,” said Pechin, who made the unusual move from the private sector to City Hall after similarly guiding the Richmond 300 master plan update.
The utility giant wouldn’t comment on what potential use might be in mind for the 2-acre plot at 701 E. Cary St., or how exactly the company would be involved in any potential project.
The county-initiated proposal would rezone a total of around 2,400 acres, teeing up a technology park on the bulk of the land as well as hundreds of homes and several public facilities on the so-called “Upper Magnolia Green” property.
The owners, two Midlothian natives, signed a lease to open a third location at 12120 W. Broad St. in West Broad Marketplace.
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