Richmond Developments

[wrldcoupe4]

The site they are looking at would be visible at a much lower height, so this will definitely be visible.

[Icetera]

4 hours ago, eandslee said:

Is this a joke?  Looks like some easy photoshopping.  If this is real, do you think the height is so that it can be seen from I-195?

With the height, I think they are aiming for I-95/64 but the closest available land to the interchange just happen to be along I-195.

[Ward Wood]

Where is this design from? I couldn’t find it after some quick searching online 

12 hours ago, Hike said:

This is the design for Carvana at Westwood - 12 stories, pretty shocked at how tall this is.

 

 

 

[Henrico Weather]

Woah! That thing is nearly twice the size of the one I saw near Greensboro. Sure won't be able to miss that at night.

[eandslee]

On 11/20/2019 at 9:39 AM, Hike said:

This is the design for Carvana at Westwood - 12 stories, pretty shocked at how tall this is.

 

 

Put a spire on that sucker!!  Otherwise, it looks too much like a glass version of the Monroe tower!  LOL!

Edited November 21, 2019 by eandslee

[Icetera]

3 hours ago, eandslee said:

a glass version of the Monroe tower!  LOL!

Yes, please!  City Hall renovation 2.0.

[eandslee]

I just learned that Singapore has the tallest car vending machine at 15 stories. To have a 12 story vending machine in Richmond is quite impressive!

[georgeglass]

I have often wondered why this building was still vacant considering it's location. Thankfully, it won't stand empty much longer and I believe is the last big vacant building on Main downtown.

https://richmondbizsense.com/2019/11/25/douglas-development-begins-apartment-conversion-of-former-downtown-hotel-building/

[wrldcoupe4]

A block away, Douglas Dev still has the vacant former DEQ building at 7th and Main and the VEC is moving out of a building also at 7th and Main.

[RiverYuppy]

More than a big new building, I'd really like to see more headway made on vacant buildings. Seeing that the old hotel building is to be renovated was great news this morning!

With the CarMax office and Whole foods going up, the corridor near the fan is starting to look like it will be alive soon.  

The majority of the Broad Street corridor downtown still seems abandoned though.

Shiny new buildings might make the skyline look a bit nicer, but until we make more headway on renovations of long-abandoned buildings I think the city is going to be held back. People come visit our city and stay someplace nice like Quirk only to walk outside and be hit with a wall of dilapidated buildings that have been abandoned for decades. 

[Shakman]

10 hours ago, georgeglass said:

I have often wondered why this building was still vacant considering it's location. Thankfully, it won't stand empty much longer and I believe is the last big vacant building on Main downtown.

https://richmondbizsense.com/2019/11/25/douglas-development-begins-apartment-conversion-of-former-downtown-hotel-building/

I always envisioned this corner having a grand tower with ground level retail. 

[RVA-Is-The-Best]

Biggest news of the day is obviously the twin towers proposed for Manchester, but also big news on Broad Street: the UMFS campus redevelopment is underway.

https://richmondbizsense.com/2019/12/02/mixed-use-development-underway-at-umfs-campus/

With a Courtyard Marriott hotel and a 250 unit apartment building + two new additions to the UMFS medical campus.

 

Absolutely loving the fact that the buildings are brought up directly to the street with no setbacks. Will improve the urban streetscape in that area tenfold.

[wrldcoupe4]

Big improvement for that intersection.

[rjp212]

The massing is off on the apartment buildings.  I've seen similar sized building built in Charlotte, and they come off looking like a GIANT wall.   I know the economics of it probably wouldn't work, but splitting the apartments into 4 buildings would be a great improvement to the street-scape.

[wrldcoupe4]

16 hours ago, rjp212 said:

The massing is off on the apartment buildings.  I've seen similar sized building built in Charlotte, and they come off looking like a GIANT wall.   I know the economics of it probably wouldn't work, but splitting the apartments into 4 buildings would be a great improvement to the street-scape.

Yep, extra elevators, staircases, building systems, etc. Looks like they have tried to break up the facade but agree if often looks too 2D of a difference.

[RiverYuppy]

Another abandoned building is getting renovated and filled!

The Sauer Center is getting another tenant to fill a building it is renovating.  

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The company has a staff of about 100 in 8,000 square feet in Innsbrook. Dunning said they’re “bursting at the seams” in their current office and wanted to move closer to where many of their employees live.

“A lot of our employees don’t live near Innsbrook or the West End where it used to be a more popular office space,” Dunning said. “What we’re excited about with Sauer Center is we’ll have room to breathe a little bit more. … We just wanted to be in Richmond and feel like a part of the city.”

It's great to see more businesses taking interest in being in the city rather than the suburbs.

[RiverYuppy]

The new apartments on Oliver Hill Way are coming along and look pretty good!

[RiverYuppy]

1 minute ago, Hike said:

can't tell, do these extend under the bridge,from this angle, it looks like they do, which would be very unusual.  

I don't think they extend under the bridge.  There is a gap between them and an old warehouse that is under renovation to be part of the apartment complex.

I wonder what they're going to do with the space below the bridge. 

[Icetera]

17 hours ago, RiverYuppy said:

I don't think they extend under the bridge.  There is a gap between them and an old warehouse that is under renovation to be part of the apartment complex.

I wonder what they're going to do with the space below the bridge. 

I will bet on "covered" parking.

[Shakman]

Perhaps the columns of bridge can be lit and turned into a park.  The columns should be lit for the entire length of the bridge.

Edited December 10, 2019 by Shakman

[wrldcoupe4]

Wegmans building a $175M, 1.1M sf distribution center and regional HQ in Hanover

https://www.richmond.com/business/wegmans-planning-million-warehouse-complex-off-sliding-hill-road-in/article_a9b2f706-796b-5812-87c9-f6f20018046b.html

https://richmondbizsense.com/2019/12/11/breaking-news-hanover-lands-175m-wegmans-distribution-facility-regional-hq/

Edited December 11, 2019 by wrldcoupe4

[RiverYuppy]

This article about the Sauer properties makes the future of Broad Street a bit more bright.

[rjp212]

VUU has closed on the purchase of the Budget Inn making it the first time in 40 years that they have grown outside of their gates.   The hotel will be demolished and replaced with a multi purpose building focusing on learning and community development.  The ultimate goal is to turn Lombardy from Brook to Chamberlayne into a mixed use stroll district leading into campus. 

https://www.nbc12.com/2019/12/17/virginia-union-university-acquires-budget-inn-property/

Edited December 17, 2019 by rjp212

[RiverYuppy]

There was also an article about it in Richmond Bizsense.

I'm really hoping the Chaymberlayne corridor takes off a bit with new apartments that have been planned.

 

Now if only we could get rid of the rest of those motels along the corridor.  

[RiverYuppy]

D.C. firm to relocate HQ to Richmond; taking entire building in Sauer Center

Another abandoned building bites the dust.