Richmond, VA (August 13, 2024) – A former shopping center parking lot in Chesterfield County is well underway on its transformation into a six-story mixed-use building.
Connecticut-based developer Collins Enterprises is in the midst of construction on The James, which is bringing 300 apartments and ground-floor retail to the Springline at District 60 project taking shape near the Midlothian Turnpike and Chippenham Parkway interchange.
The $85 million James building comes as an early piece of the Springline project, a Chesterfield County-led effort to redevelop the old Spring Rock Green shopping center. The James itself is rising on what were parking spaces at the now-demolished retail center.
With The James about halfway through its construction, the search is on for tenants to fill out the building’s roughly 30,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, developer Art Collins said in an interview last month.
Construction on The James is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2025. Collins said that while feelers are being put out now, the official push to find tenants kicks off in the next couple months.
“We’re expecting that this fall we’ll get a lot of activity because people can now see that there’s something standing here,” Collins said.
Collins said the project is pursuing a roughly even split between restaurants and retailers, and expects to start to see leases getting signed in January.
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