Chesterfield County
“Virginia State University has formally unveiled its first project
aimed at transforming a long-depressed commercial corridor at the county’s
southeast corner, and the Planning Commission has given the plan its immediate
support. A company owned by the university’s real estate foundation, VSU Trojan
Development, is proposing to build a four-story building almost a full block
long on the east side of Chesterfield Avenue in Ettrick.
The project would be totally unlike anything that the quiet former mill
village has previously seen on its main commercial street, which currently is
lined by old houses and a scattering of storefronts, many of which are vacant. Robert
Turner, the university’s top economic development official, said the plan
presented to the commission last week was the result of a year-and-a-half of
work between university and county officials.”
~Writes Michael Buettner of the Chesterfield Observer
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