Economic Development

Trucking terminal going up on Station Road

By Caleb M Soptelean on May 14, 2019 Business, Economic Development

New Bell Trucking will have a truck terminal on Station Road with an adjacent pathway leading to Falling Creek. (Caleb M. Soptelean photo) Evans Construction of Richmond is currently building a truck terminal at 2227 Station Road for New Bell Trucking. The site plan lists a 9,800-square-foot, 35-feet-tall, one-story building and loading dock on 9.16 acres, including 4.36 acres in a “disturbed area.” The site plan was approved Aug. 15 last year. An employee of Evans Construction said the target completion date is the first week of July. The land was previously vacant, according to county Planning Department records. An…

Oil change?

By Caleb M Soptelean on May 7, 2019 Business, Economic Development

Workers were busy last week at 10850 Iron Bridge Road, where a Valvoline Instant Oil Change is being built between Kroger Marketplace and Murry & Kuhn Dentistry. (Caleb M. Soptelean photo)

New building on the way at Village Green

By Caleb M Soptelean on April 30, 2019 Business, Economic Development

The last commercial lot in the Village Green mixed-use development is the site of a building under construction. Property manager Sean Eichert said the 12,000-square-foot, two-story building on the northeast corner of Chester Village Drive and Route 10 will house two existing businesses that plan to relocate within the Village Green: Deux Amis Med Spa and She Chester, a jewelry and gift shop. The building will also have six apartments, two 1-bedroom units and four 2-bedroom units. The building – which is located across Celebration Drive from Don Papa Grande Mexican restaurant – has a target opening date of July…

Project Utopia? Residents concerned about potential ‘megasite No. 2′

By Caleb M Soptelean on April 16, 2019 Economic Development

Woods Edge RoadMarguerite Christian Elementary School The red-lined area is available for sale by the Cushman & Wakefield/Thalhimer realty group. Some folks living in the Southeast Chesterfield area are not too hip about a potential large-scale industrial development that could be coming their way. Concerned citizens who live near Marguerite Christian Elementary School recently informed the Village News about plans they say were revealed to them for a potential development on some 175 acres across from the school. The citizens say they recently got wind of the development due to a sewer line installation along Woods Edge Road. An employee…

Moore’s Lake transformed: Emerson, Roper open The Jane apartments

By Caleb M Soptelean on April 16, 2019 Business, Economic Development, Housing

Jasmine Harris of Matrix Residential is pictured in front of the pool at The Jane apartments. The Moore’s Lake area has been transformed into some luxury apartments: The Jane at Moore’s Lake. The iconic vacation spot of Jefferson Davis Highway from years gone by can be viewed in photographs that line the walls of the first floor of The Jane’s first 100-unit apartment building at 12300 Moore’s Lake Road. During an April 10 open house, locals got a chance to view what county supervisor Dorothy Jaeckle last week called a $60 million investment in the Jefferson Davis Highway corridor. The…

Chesapeake Bank donates $10K to BizWorks

By Press release on March 5, 2019 Business, Economic Development

Chesapeake Bank presented a check for $10,000 to BizWorks Enterprise Center on Feb. 26. Funds will be used to renovate the center’s multi-purpose room. From left, David Neale, Fable Marketing; Richard Swed, Risk Management Group; LaTisha Jenkins, Chesterfield Economic Development; Tommy Adams, Chesapeake Bank; Kiva Duff, BizWorks; Shane Young, Workspace 101; Frank Bell, Chesapeake Bank; Doug Carleton, board chairman, BizWorks; David Younce, Chesapeake Bank; Tanner Collins, BizWorks; and Sam Poole, Chesapeake Bank.

Second phase of The Cove at Magnolia Lakes underway

By Press release on February 26, 2019 Business, Community, Economic Development

Cornerstone Homes broke ground Feb. 7 on the second phase at The Cove at Magnolia Lakes, an age 55-plus community located at 5800 Magnolia Cove Circle at Iron Bridge and Chalkley roads in Chester. The company purchased the property from BB&T Corp. when the previous owner, Tascon Group, went bankrupt. New plans include single-family detached and paired single-level homes. From left, Danielle Fitz-Hugh, president, Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce; Mitchell Bode, VP of Crescent Group; county supervisor Dorothy Jaeckle; Roger Glover III, owner, Cornerstone Homes; Joan Allen, original landowner; Josh McMahon, production manager; Craig Logue, sales manager; Danna Markland, Home Building…

Community land trust expands footprint into Chesterfield: Unoccupied homes will be renovated and sold

By Press release on January 22, 2019 Housing

CHESTERFIELD — The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust recently closed on its first home in Chesterfield County. The land trust will repair and rehabilitate a vacant home at 5616 S. Melbeck Road and sell it to a new homeowner later this year. Funding will come from a federal Community Development Block Grant. The funding will also allow the land trust to purchase, repair and sell additional unoccupied homes this year. Melbeck Road is located west of Route 10 and south of Route 150. Under the community land trust model, each home remains permanently affordable through the program’s long-term ground lease…

Dutch machinery business to open sales office at Chesterfield Airpark

By Press release on December 11, 2018 Business, Economic Development

A food machinery automation company plans to open a sales office in the Chesterfield County Airpark on Whitepine Road. JASA Packaging Solutions, Inc. chose the site over Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Raleigh, N.C. “Currently, there is a big growth in the U.S. going on in the healthy convenience market,” said Sandra Somford-Pannekeet, owner/president of JASA. She explained that “ready to eat” meals are JASA’s “sweet spot.” The Netherlands-based company has done business in the U.S. for the last 20 years and has existing dealers for their vertical packaging machines used by supermarkets and wholesalers. The company’s facility will include a…

Devon, Honeywell, Fiorucci Foods have projects planned

By Caleb M Soptelean on December 11, 2018 Business, Economic Development

A number of commercial developments are in the works in Chesterfield County besides a new Bissell plant that is going up. These developments include:•Project Lightning II, a 303,393-square-foot warehouse and 17,567-square-foot office building planned for 38.7 acres at 1401, 1501 and 1601 Bellwood Road east of Jefferson Davis Highway in the James River Logistics Center. The proposed use is a warehouse distribution center. There are 96.9 acres at the site. The developer, Devon USA, has had two buildings in the center since 2002. According to reports, Devon plans to develop the third site as a speculative project in the hopes…

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