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.
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500 apartments approved for Virginia Center Commons’ JCPenney site
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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.