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 buildings that would rise on the 7-acre parcel that currently houses the store building and parking lot. Sample elevations included with the plans show the new buildings would rise four stories.