The move would ramp up enforcement of real estate tax collections that were paused quietly three years ago, while also working with property owners with unpaid taxes to become compliant through payment plans.
The house in Windsor Farms sold for over $800,000 over list the same month that the seller retired from CarMax and was elected to the board of directors for Publix.
While the larger VCC redevelopment includes standalone commercial buildings, the three-story building would be the only new construction planned to consist of both commercial and residential uses.
Mungo Homes and Eastwood Homes have bought into Arcadia West, the initial phase of the 800-lot, 261-acre development that’s starting to take shape off Willson Road north of New Market Road.
If approved by voters in November, the additional sales tax revenue from the 1% hike is expected to generate as much as $850 million for new school buildings and other RPS capital projects by 2034.
“I wanted to see if we could replicate that feeling, that vibe, that whole experience of Rockefeller Center in New York, in Richmond,” said Flying Squirrels owner Lou DiBella, who donned a Santa suit.
“There’s so many people out there that simply just want to play, and where do you find that resource?” said Shannon Loy, who is opening Sound Hall with fellow music industry vet Chris Davis.
Straddling the Goochland-Henrico line along the James River, the roughly 300-year-old house and 560-acre estate where the country's third president spent part of his childhood hit the market Sunday.
The national homebuilder is under contract to purchase the 265-acre site of the planned Rural Hill on the James, a 195-home subdivision that Goochland supervisors approved five years ago.
The new plan comes nine months after a reworked proposal that significantly reduced the original plan's density was withdrawn before going before the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors.
