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Henrico industrial facility purchased for $7.8M
On April 7, Richmond-based commercial real estate investment firm Lingerfelt CommonWealth Partners LLC announced it had acquired an industrial facility in Henrico County for $7.8 million. Located at 4300 Carolina Ave., the 223,479-square-foot industrial facility is located in the Richmond Distribution Center complex near Richmond International Raceway. Lingerfelt CommonWealth announced that the pr[...]
Rustburg shopping center sells for $4.7M
Rustburg Marketplace, a 46,700-square-foot grocery-anchored shopping center at 1051 Village Highway in Rustburg, has sold for $4.7 million. Anchored by a Food Lion, the shopping center’s other major tenants include Family Dollar and Virginia ABC. The Kent Mall LLC purchased the strip mall, which sits on 8.55 acres, from Rustburg Ventures LLC. S. L. Nusbaum […]
Chesapeake industrial building sells for $2.4M
Memphis, Tennessee-based heavy lifting and hauling company Barnhart Crane and Rigging Co. has purchased a 34,312-square-foot industrial building on 4.79 acres in Chesapeake for $2.4 million. The property is located at 835 Wilson Road. S. L. Nusbaum Realty Co.’s Ben Leon and Sam Rapoport represented the seller, Chesapeake-based Burton Lumber Corp. Subscribe to Virginia Business. […]
Loudoun announces major mixed-use development along Silver Line
Loudoun Economic Development unveiled plans Wednesday for Rivana at Innovation Station, a 4.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development adjacent to Metro’s Silver Line extension on a site Loudoun once proposed for Amazon.com Inc.’s HQ2 East Coast headquarters. Rivana is the first phase of Innovation Station, a 103-acre development to be built on the border of Fairfax and […]
Aging office parks embrace multifamily
A weekday lunch hour is relatively quiet on the grounds of the Boulders office park, south of Richmond, except for a few people chatting during a walk around a lake and the honking of two geese skimming the water. Overlooking that lake are gray and white apartments recently built from scratch on vacant land — 250 […]
Eight over 80
What keeps a person working at an age when most of us are happy to let others take care of business? These overachieving Virginians, all over age 80, have remained hard at work mostly for one or more of three reasons. The first is being able to continue work with family. Retirement is rarely mandatory […]
Saving the day
Running from police, an unremarkable bad guy with sandy hair suddenly grabs a little girl and dangles the young hostage from the third floor of a mall atrium. As a gaggle of nonplused bad guys decked out in ’80s pastels and John Oates mustaches look on, the skylight above shatters. It’s Wonder Woman, swooping into […]
Military Circle redevelopment could include arena
Four groups — including mid-Atlantic developers, entertainment and sports figures, concert promoters and arena operators — are competing for a chance to redevelop Norfolk’s aging Military Circle Mall into a mixed-use community. Overhauling the struggling mall has long been on the city’s to-do list, but the project was jump-started last year when the Norfolk Economic […]
Developments perk up Danville
Danville City Council members faced a dilemma three years ago. Council members could pay up to $185,000 to demolish a crumbling stucco apartment building on Jefferson Avenue, or they could spend $75,000 in matching funds to augment a $125,000 grant from the Virginia Housing Development Authority to stabilize the property, which was declared unfit for […]
Commercial real estate leasing roundup
Central Virginia Environmental Quality Resources LLC renewed its lease of 32,670 square feet of industrial space at 11131 Progress Road in Ashland. Gregg W. Beck of Thalhimer handled the lease negotiations on behalf of the landlord. Surplus Freight has leased 16,361 square feet of retail space at Park South Shopping Center, 798 Southpark Blvd. in […]
$68M Mosaic apartment tower coming to Chesapeake’s Summit Pointe
Construction will begin April 1 on Mosaic, a $68 million, six-floor mixed-use tower coming to Chesapeake’s Summit Pointe development, according to a March 25 announcement from Summit Pointe Realty LLC. Mosaic is a continuation of the second phase of the Summit Pointe mixed-use development, which is located on 69 acres in Chesapeake’s Central Business District. […]
Construction begins on residential towers in National Landing
Developer JBG Smith announced Friday that it has begun construction on two residential towers at 1900 Crystal Drive in National Landing. The development will include 808 apartments and approximately 40,000 square feet of street-level retail across from two new mixed-use buildings. The 27-story southern tower will include 471 apartments; the 26-story northern tower will include […]
