The wooded parcel is part of the Park Central office park and across Scott Road from the Saint Gertrude High School Outdoor Athletic Center, which the EDA bought last year for $4.5 million.
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Henrico County positions Best Products site for GreenCity deal
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With a pair of procedural approvals, Henrico County has taken its first step down the proverbial yellow brick road to GreenCity.
As they said they would do when they announced the $2.3 billion arena-anchored development in December, Henrico supervisors last week approved a transfer of the county-owned Best Products site to Henrico’s economic development authority, which will negotiate a sale of the 92-acre site to developer GreenCity LLC.
The EDA board voted two days later to accept the transfer, directing Executive Director Anthony Romanello to proceed with a memorandum of agreement for disposition of the property. The EDA would then begin negotiations, though the county has already said its preferred sale price: $6.2 million, the amount it paid for the property in 2011.