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Ministry buys Chesterfield building for $1.2M
Chesterfield County-based Mountain Movers Ministry has purchased a building near the intersection of Hull Street and Courthouse roads for $1.175 million. The ministry will relocate to 3300 Old Courthouse Road and occupy the entirety of the 8,942-square-foot building. The property is situated on 7 acres. Gray Bryant, an associate[...]
Norfolk’s MacArthur Center may meet the wrecking ball
Downtown Norfolk’s MacArthur Center, a 140-store mall that opened in 1999, may have a future date with a wrecking ball. According to a newsletter released March 2 by Norfolk’s economic development department, a complete teardown of the 1.1 million-square-foot structure is one of three possibilities envisioned for MacArthur C[...]
Capital Square names chief technology officer
Henrico County-based real estate investment company Capital Square announced Tuesday that Jeffrey Blount has been named the company’s chief technology officer. Prior to joining Capital Square, Blount served as virtual chief information officer at Glen Allen-based office IT services and equipment supplier Cobb Technologies. “[...]
Roanoke Valley office occupancy increases by 1%
The Roanoke Valley office market saw a 1% increase in office occupancy in 2020, ending the year with an 88% occupancy rate, according to Poe & Cronk Real Estate Group’s 34th Annual Office Market Survey. These figures are a promising sign “in one of the most challenging years in recent memory,” Poe & Cronk states, […]
Petersburg apartments sell for $2.9M
Landmark Apartments, a 53-unit affordable housing property in Petersburg, has been purchased by Mercer Street Partners for $2.867 million. Landmark, located at 450 Van Buren Drive, was originally developed in 1983 using the U.S. Department of Housing Development’s (HUD) Project-Based Section 8 program for subsidized housing. The buyer, Mercer Street Partners, acquired the property subject […][...]
Richmond office building sells for $29.5M
An office building in downtown Richmond has sold for $29.5 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Capital Markets Group announced Friday. The 140,573-square-foot Edgeworth Building is located at 2100 East Cary Street and was once a tobacco factory. It is 95% leased to Hirschler, RK&K, Ernst & Young and HKS Arch[...]
Brick by brick
The continuing progress on Amazon.com Inc.’s massive East Coast headquarters in Arlington, along with the promise of four new casinos across the state, kept spirits buoyed in Virginia’s construction sector in 2020. Across the country, construction employment decreased in December 2020 compared with December 2019, but not in [...]
Seeing green
You can almost see the dollar signs flashing as John Vithoulkas talks about the revenue that he hopes will flow to Henrico County from the $2.3 billion GreenCity development, anchored by a 17,000-seat, $250 million arena. “Once it’s running and out of the ground, fully built, it will be producing revenues greater than our to[...]
KTGY Architecture + Planning names director of production in Tysons
KTGY Architecture + Planning announced Thursday it has promoted Adam Hale as director of production in its Tysons office. Hale will oversee all phases of the construction process at the full-service design firm, which focuses on residential and mixed-use developments. He has more than 15 years of experience in multifamily design[...]
$8.5M parcel in Spotsylvania to be used for Veterans Affairs clinic
Nearly 50 acres of land along Route 1 and Interstate 95 in Spotsylvania County has sold for $8.5 million, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer announced Wednesday. The 48.75-acre parcel will be used to develop one of the nation’s largest Veterans Affairs facilities, according to Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer. Carneg[...]
S.L. Nusbaum names land, investments VP
Norfolk-based S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. announced Monday it has hired Douglas Tice III as vice president of land and investments at the firm’s Richmond office. With 30 years of experience as a real estate broker and developer, Tice most recently worked with General Land Commercial Real Estate Co. He has also previously been a pr[...]
Commercial real estate lease roundup
Central Virginia National Delivery Systems Inc. renewed its 78,232-square-foot lease at 4840 Eubank Road in Richmond. Rob Dirom and John Carpin of Colliers International represented the landlord. Belvac Production Machinery Inc. renewed its lease of 71,576 square feet of industrial space at 25 Millrace Drive in Lynchburg. Norman Moon of Thalhimer, along with Cushman & […]
