Jonathan Spiers

Currently a deputy county manager and Henrico’s chief of staff, Tretina will succeed current EDA director Anthony Romanello, who submitted his resignation in August and will step down from the post in mid-January.

The 40-year-old firm is currently working on VCU’s Athletic Village and previously worked on the university's sports performance center near the Siegel Center and Rice Rivers Center in Charles City.

Complete with a golf simulator and practice green, the former homestead of a family of RV dealers led the pack of the month's priciest sales that included a $3 million deal on Riverside Drive.

While Poe is most famous for his poem “The Raven,” the Fulton Hill house has been known by another birdy name – The Crow’s Nest – for the Crow family that has owned it for the past six decades.

The 60-bed “surge shelter” will provide overflow capacity for Richmond’s cold-weather shelter at 1900 Chamberlayne Ave. this winter, on days when temperatures reach below 40 degrees.

Ryan Homes parent planning 950-home project in Chesterfield’s Rockwood area

“It has taken several years, and every year that goes by we’re losing business, so we’re all ready to get this ball rolling,” GRCCA chair Nancy Thomas said.

East West, which developed nearby Hallsley, is teaming up with Catalyst Development on the 400-acre project that includes the site of Swift Creek Berry Farm, which plans to close in two years.

The purchase by Lake Washington Partners, led by the brother of tenant SanMar Corp.'s CEO, includes the 1.1 million-square-foot building and 190-acre property known as Graymont Industrial Park.

Awards were presented in categories including restoration, new construction and adaptive reuse. Developer Cory Weiner and the owners of Yellow Umbrella Provisions were double-award winners.

The request was submitted Oct. 1, three weeks after the planning commission voted to recommend that Henrico supervisors deny the proposal under the county's new rules for data centers.

The local group is still going forward with a plan to fill two Union Hill parking lot sites with 19 townhomes. The adjacent church building was listed earlier this month with an asking price of $1.25 million.

“It can go from being a ballpark that serves 10,000 people ... to being a concert and major cultural event facility that can host as many as 14,000 people,” managing partner Lou DiBella said.

HCPS plans to submit the project for the Living Building Challenge to potentially be certified as the first public school K-12 project in the world to be 100% self-sustainable.

“It is not an easy decision … because you’ve got a real old building that, no matter what you do, is going to take a fair amount of assets to get it to a current stage,” said Bill Goodwin, whose hotel group is leading the multimillion-dollar rehab.

“I believe this can be a good project. But at this time, it does have a couple of issues that I’m not comfortable with,” Commissioner William Mackey said of the plan, which was to be supported by Henrico's Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

The county is acquiring the the canal – and four bridges that cross it – generally between Chippenham Parkway and Powhite Parkway in Richmond from CSX, which owns the manmade waterway along the railroad.

Joe Alexander, who is suing the ad giant over his ouster nearly a decade, has come up short in his appeal of an initial court ruling but is continuing his legal battle that’s now entering its sixth year.

The first data center proposal to go through Henrico’s new approval process was recommended for denial by the county’s planning commission earlier this month.

Planned infrastructure improvements to support the development have broadened in scope, resulting in the funding gap that the city will need to fill in coming months.