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February 13

Chesterfield's "The Lake" development renderings:

February 10

https://richmond.com/news/local/business/health-care/hca-planning-to-relocate-emergency-room-in-chesterfield/article_25de76c8-24a8-11ee-84fa-2b92fba48877.html

I'm guessing this is due to further growth in the outer parts of the county.

February 10

New red "crawler" crane at the construction site next to lowes.

February 10

Costar's tower is coming along pretty well, as it looks like the third elevator shaft is rising oit of the ground from the main tower. The second tower is also progressing as big concrete blocks are starting to show.

February 7

Maymont 2025 Plan:

Maymont 2025 | Maymont Foundation

February 7

@eandslee Well at least they do have the "lake portion" properly dug out, and some water and sewer lines have been put in.

Water and Sewer lines have been put into the blue area.

Old County transportation plan.

26 minutes ago, plain said:

That expressway is dead, and in my opinion rightfully so. It would've basically paralleled VA 288 a few miles to the south and wouldn't have accomplished much of anything. It would've just been redundant.

I think a much better plan is to route an expressway from the southern terminus of I-295 (south of Petersburg) and loop up west of Petersburg to VA 288 between Hull St Rd & Pocahontas State Park, creating a beltway around both Richmond and Petersburg.

Beach, Genito, and Winter pock roads needs to be upgraded as it's kind of dangerous how narrow those roads are with such large amounts of houses near them.

February 6

Map of what's being developed in the Moseley area of Chesterfield (note this doesn't include everything).

Pink = Oasis Park.

Large blue area = Carter's Farm 600 homes (I think).

Brown = Richmond FC soccer park.

Gray = Tuckmer Farm home 215 homes with a proposed expansion.

Purple = proposed RounTrey expansion.

Orange = West Area Middle (larges middle school in central va with 1800 student capacity, already projected to overcrowded when it opens).

Green = The Lake surf park development.

Huge solar development proposed by Winter pock.

Also, Hallsley is seeking to expand it's master area to the north of the current one.

FC Richmond Complex

FC Richmond soccer complex.

February 6

It's from Chesterfield Drone Services off of Facebook.

February 6

Oasis Park townhome development in Chesterfield:

HSR or Hull St Rd. in the background.

February 6

I rode pass so fast, and forgot to get one.

1 hour ago, I miss RVA said:

SWEEET!!! Wow!

Any chance for some ??

I wonder if the developer will have a construction cam available?

Also, Perry's Steakhouse opened today.

The Lake development in Chesterfield:

West Area middle school.

February 5

Construction has started for the 9 - 10 story hotel planned next to Short Pump mall.

February 5

Chippenham & Route 60 development:

Office space for the first tower is fully leased.

February 4

Construction of the Plenty hydro warehouse is going strong!

February 2

Information to unpack:

VCU has yet to recover to it's record enrollment of 31,242 of Fall 2015.

VSU has potentially surpassed it's enrollment of 5,025 of Fall 2024.

Reynolds continues to grow back into positive territory with 8,191 students for the fall, but it's still short of 13,367 of Fall of 2011.

Brightpoint continues to grow by 5% , but even that's still short.

According to the report, the peak number of students graduating from grade is expected to happen in year 2025, and after expected to drop off slowly. I think will see VCU recover it's numbers, since it's profile in relative to other Virginia colleges is "better" (outside of the elite ones). Community colleges will likely continue to grow as more developments such as advanced manufacturing continues to locate within the region, and also the Nursing program.

More on campus housing could also help VCU recover a bit quicker.

Here's the report: Overview of Proposed Budgets (virginia.gov)

February 2

SCHEV has released College enrollment estimates for fall 2023, and future projections.

In-state undergrad numbers:

Community College enrollment numbers:

First in time in College projections for fall 2029:

February 1

Sliding Hill & Historic Route 1

January 30

Peterburg needs this, and I'm glad the article has pointed that out though it should have went further in depth. Ever since Brown & Williamson tobacco plant closed in 1985 (came to Petersburg in 1785), coupled of course the 1996 tornado the are has been in freefall in both economical and population terms. This plant will restore a key "base" needed to get Petersburg back to where it once was. Reminder that Brown and Williamson only had about 4,000 workers at it's peak, and it helped blossomed it's population to almost 50,000 people.

1730 – 1985 Petersburg’s Tobacco Industry (historicpetersburg.org)

January 30

I really hope the City Center area developed before 2030, I think the plans currently presented would be wonderful for that (other than VCU health taking it all over). We could be getting a new court house, federal building, city hall, and hotel.

But I got to admit that I will miss the current city hall, as it's been around for decades.

January 30

If Hanover were to theoretically loosen sprawl control around the Ashland area, I could see it becoming a bit larger than it is (already happening on the western side of it). I feel like it would be one of fastest growing areas in the region, since the train station is there, the homes would be cheaper, and the schools are much better compared to other areas.

January 30

And just like that...this happens..

Gov, Dems vie for control of Department of General Services (richmond.com)

But McDermid acknowledged to legislators earlier this month that the administration had mistakenly not proposed to amend the state budget to eliminate the requirement that it begin planning for a new building. The requirement remains in the budget that Youngkin introduced in December.

January 28

Henrico hoping to woo developers for Glenwood Farms makeover (12onyourside.com)

January 28

It's wild that that dominion tower will outshined by the new costar tower, makes you think if they would build a new one higher in the old james plaza site.

January 26

On 1/10/2024 at 9:22 PM, rjp212 said:

Construction fencing is already up. Hopefully that means demo isn’t too far behind!

Demolition has begun.

January 26

Spring rock green....continued:

I am starting to think that the county may have switch some of the initial placement of things, including even the buildings. The apartments that are being built in the big square section of the building are being constructed in the area where the parking deck is being showed in the bottom graphic, and the parking deck adjacent to the ice facility is being constructed (near powerline easement) where the ice facility was supposed to go. I'm thinking that this will be in flux for a great amount of time. Also, Dollar tree has closed for good.