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The 114-room Home2Suites and 111-room Residence Inn and Suites will add to two restaurant buildings that the hotelier has previously announced for the transforming former mall site.
The new phase, called Rise II, is slated to take shape on a roughly 2-acre portion of a parking lot between the first phase of apartments and Starling Drive on the western side of the mall.
The $50 million, 4,500-seat arena is scheduled to open in about a year and host indoor sports events and concerts.
500 apartments approved for Virginia Center Commons’ JCPenney site Courtesy of Poole & Poole Architecture) Another piece in the puzzle of the planned redevelopment of Virginia Center Commons has been put into place, with hundreds of apartments replacing one of the former shopping mall’s anchor department stores. Henrico supervisors have approved plans for as many as 500 apartments to be built on the site of the recently closed JCPenney store, which developers Rebkee Co. and Shamin Hotels added to their assemblage of properties there earlier this year. The apartments would fill four buildi...
Demolition signals start of Virginia Center Commons redevelopment Images courtesy of Rebkee Co.) With demolition underway and more property in hand, a public-private effort to transform Virginia Center Commons from a suburban indoor mall to an urban-style mixed-use village is beginning to come into view. Developer Rebkee Co. started work in recent weeks to raze the former Macy’s store at the mall’s eastern end, where collaborator Shamin Hotels is planning a hotel that would anchor the new development — a mix of residential and retail –—alongside an indoor sports and convocation cent...