Markham Planning News Today

The new 5-story development would replace a trio of vacant one-story buildings on a quarter-acre lot directly across from the Hull Street Public Library.

“I don’t know that there’s anything like it in Richmond, honestly,” buyer Murry Pitts said of the building’s modern-design condo. “And the rooftop is something out of New York magazine.”

The City Council gets an update on the Diamond District redevelopment project, a 1,400-acre solar facility is up for a vote in Chesterfield, and Henrico details projects in its $511 million bond referendum this fall.

“I’ve got too much going on, I don’t need to be put on that blacklist,” said a builder, one of many BizSense sources who asked not to be named in articles.

SNP plans to keep the 69,000-square-foot former school building’s footprint intact and renovate its interior into 38 apartments.

The Art Deco-style structure now houses 10 apartments and storefront offices for Markham Planning and Sadler & Whitehead, the latter of which has changed ownership.

The multi-phased project is planned to kick off this summer with a rehab of the Y building, followed by a new six-story building and then a new 11-story building.

An S-shaped building containing 271 units above 10,000 square feet of commercial space is proposed at 423 Hull St., a 2-acre site currently used as a surface parking lot.

The project would cap off the nearly decade-long redevelopment of the old Reynolds North complex along downtown’s canal front.

Salomonsky plans 12-story tower on Weiman’s Bakery site in Shockoe Jonathan Spiers photo) Once eyed as part of the baseball stadium proposal in Shockoe Bottom, the former Weiman’s Bakery property at 127 N. 17th St. is being pitched for a 12-story tower. Developer Louis Salomonsky filed plans with the city Friday for a redevelopment of the roughly half-acre site. Plans call for an approximately 124-foot tower with 145 apartments at the corner of 17th and East Grace Street. The building would...