A 2025 conceptual plan of the Nunnally Village project. (County documents)
200-acre Nunnally Village mixed-use project up for review in Chesterfield
More than a year after its rezoning request was filed, the Nunnally Village project is heading to the Chesterfield Planning Commission on Tuesday.
The 200-acre project would rise at the intersection of Hull Street and Otterdale roads in western Chesterfield. The project is a joint venture between local developer Ed Nunnally and Henrico-based private equity and real estate firm Markel | Eagle Partners.
The mixed-use project is expected to be anchored by an HCA hospital. There would be a maximum of 1,000 residential units, more than 340,000 square feet of retail and office space and a grocery store, according to project documents. The project would also involve transportation improvements.
The project team is seeking to rezone the site to Corridor Commercial (CC) and Transitional Residential (TR).
Commissioners are anticipated to vote Tuesday on whether to recommend approval of the rezoning request. The board of supervisors would make a final decision at a future meeting.
Plans for Nunnally Village were filed in 2025, following the project’s announcement the previous year. Jeff Geiger of Hirschler is representing the applicant in the request.
The full agenda for this week’s meeting can be found here.
Jackson Ward Community Plan, VUU apartments on city planning agenda
A rendering of the hospital site apartments as they would appear along Overbrook shows part of the two-story hospital building that would be preserved and worked into the VUU development.
The Richmond Planning Commission meets Tuesday at 6 p.m.
As part of the consent agenda, the commission will consider adoption of the Jackson Ward Community Plan as an amendment to the Richmond 300 plan. The nearly 480-page document has been in the works for four years and is intended to guide development in the neighborhood.
Also on the consent agenda is a proposal by the public works department to install removable bollards on a weekly basis along the blocks around East Franklin Street between North 17th Street and North 18th Street in Shockoe Bottom. The bollards would be installed and removed Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights with the goal of pedestrianizing those blocks, limiting vehicular traffic and deterring crime.
On the regular agenda is a special-use request from Virginia Union University for a six-story, 100-unit apartment building it’s planning at 1209 Overbrook Road.
The full meeting agenda can be viewed here.
RRHA closes on ground lease for $37M rehab of Grace Street apartment building
The Grace Place Apartments building at Grace and Fourth streets. (BizSense file photo)
The Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority announced it has closed on a ground lease for 400 E. Grace St., the 11-story building at Grace and Fourth Street that it’s working to redevelop into subsidized housing for low-income seniors.
The $37 million project involves historic preservation tax credits and will create 68 units for seniors with project-based housing vouchers. The ground lease with New York-based developer People Restoring Communities allows RRHA to retain ownership of the property and maintain a role in its future redevelopment, the authority said in its announcement.
RRHA said it expects to close on bond financing for the project by March 31, 2027. Construction is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2027, following completion of remaining funding commitments, the authority said.
RRHA has secured $1.5 million in Community Development Block Grant funding from the City of Richmond and a 4% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit allocation through Virginia Housing, according to the announcement.
Public hearing Tuesday on pedestrian, transit projects on Broad St. in Henrico
A map of the improvement area along West Broad Street between Forest Avenue and Willow Lawn Drive. (Image courtesy Henrico County)
Henrico’s public works department will hold a public hearing Tuesday on proposed improvements to enhance transit access and pedestrian safety and accessibility on West Broad Street, specifically between Forest Avenue and Willow Lawn Drive and between Glenside Drive and Parham Road.
The hearing is scheduled from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the ACE Center at Hermitage High School. The public is encouraged to provide feedback on the proposed improvements, which would extend sidewalks, provide ADA-compliant curb ramps and crosswalks, and accommodate proposed GRTC transit stop improvements in those two areas.
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