Hanover County business center sells for $41M
Baltimore-based Merritt Properties announced Tuesday it has purchased Crescent Business Center in Ashland from Crescent Business Center LC, a Thalhimer Realty Partners Inc. development, for $41.3 million. The Hanover County business center includes five industrial buildings with 262,256 square feet of space on 20 acres and are 1[...]
Lease signed for Fairwinds Landing in Norfolk
The ball has started rolling on the $100 million project turning the Lambert’s Point Docks property in Norfolk into Fairwinds Landing, a maritime operations and logistics center to support the local offshore wind, defense and transportation industries. The Miller Group signed a lease for the 122-acre site owned by Norfol[...]
BMK Ventures to move, expand in Va. Beach
Virginia Beach-based BMK Ventures Inc. plans to invest about $6.9 million in a new headquarters elsewhere in the city and add 20 jobs. The company, which provides medical supplies to government customers including the military, first responders and others, will move from its location at 1112 Jensen Drive to Corporate Landing Business Park, between General […]
Chesapeake warehouse sells for $13.59M
A 70,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution building in Chesapeake sold for $13.59 million in late July, Colliers announced Wednesday. Located at 3512 Business Center Drive in the Cavalier Industrial Park, the property is 100% leased to the U.S. Postal Service and serves as a seasonal processing and distribution center. It t[...]
July NoVa home sales drop 29% from 2021
As price growth slowed and inventory increased slightly, Northern Virginia housing sales dropped 28.8% in July compared with last year, according to a Northern Virginia Association of Realtors report published Friday. “More options are available to homebuyers now that the market is calming. It remains a seller’s market, [...]
Hampton Roads’ July active house listings down
Hampton Roads’ active residential listings in July continued to lag behind monthly totals for the past four years, according to Real Estate Information Network Inc. data published in August. Active listings have dropped steadily every July since 2014. At the end of July, there were 4,129 homes actively listed in the region[...]
Va. Beach honors Ramon W. Breeden Jr.
Virginia Beach Mayor Bobby Dyer proclaimed Aug. 9, 2022, as Ramon W. Breeden Jr. Day, in honor of the real estate mogul. Since starting The Breeden Co. in 1961 out of the trunk of his Pontiac convertible and the back room of a grocery store, Breeden has led his company to be a vertically integrated […]
Chesapeake industrial building sells for $10.2M
A 152,180-square-foot industrial property in Chesapeake has sold for $10.275 million, S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. announced in July. Chesapeake Dexter St West LLC purchased the property, located at 101 Dexter St. West in Chesapeake, from On Trading Corp. The building is on 13.89 acres and was fully leased at the time of the sale. It[...]
Newport News apartments sell for $9.75M
A Newport News apartment complex has sold for $9.75 million, S.L. Nusbaum Realty announced Aug. 2. 53 Colony Square Court LLC has purchased Colony Square Apartments, which has 92 units, from Lyn Van Turette Trust LLC. The buyer is planning extensive renovations to the property, which is on 4.82 acres. Bill Overman and John Wessl[...]
Amazon opens new Chesapeake facility
Last week Amazon.com Inc. opened its new, 640,000-square-foot processing facility in Chesapeake, the global e-tailer’s first cross-dock fulfillment center in Virginia. About 900 of the 1,000 workers that Amazon announced it would be hiring for the facility are already on the job, an Amazon spokeswoman told Virginia Busines[...]
The Breeden Co. restructures property management division
The Breeden Co., a Virginia Beach-based real estate development firm, is restructuring its property management division. Barry Tomlin, vice president of property management at The Breeden Co. in Virginia Beach, will leave the company Aug. 5, Breeden announced last week. Tomlin has been with Breeden since 2007. “Over the last 10 years, we have created […]
Albemarle retail building sells for $2.3M
Woodhaven Development Group LLC purchased a 3,204-square-foot retail building in Albemarle County from First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. for $2.3 million. The property is located at 1815 Fortune Park Road in Albemarle and will be redeveloped. The building is on 1.35 acres of land off U.S. Route 29 near the Charlottesville-Albe[...]