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In this week’s edition of Short Pump Shorts, our roundup of smaller happenings in the Far West End, we have information on a new church planning to build at Nuckols and Pouncey Tract and a playground in the works for the West Broad Village development.
The Virginia Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting tomorrow to gather the community’s input regarding a two mile stretch of Springfield Road that’s seen its share of serious, and sometimes fatal, accidents over the years.
Henrico Police are getting some new digs in the Far West End. The county has signed two leases for field offices in the West End. One of them is in the West Broad Village development. The burden on taxpayers? A mere dollar per year, according to officials.
The North Gayton Road Extension Project, Henrico County’s $48 million plan to alleviate congestion throughout Short Pump, is making progress. Crews have placed steel across Interstate 64 for a new bridge, much of the roadway has been paved and a new intersection has been constructed where the new road meets Bacova Drive. Photos of the progress can be seen below.
Construction is now underway on a new elementary school scheduled to open for the 2013-2014 school year. Development on the project, located across from the northwest entrance of Wyndham and the Goochland County line on Pouncey Tract Road, was scheduled to be started back in the spring, but was delayed several months.
Henrico County’s Department of Public Works is offering a free pickup service to assist in residents’ cleanup efforts following Hurricane Irene. The county is currently working to remove debris from public roadways as quickly as possible to ensure roads are safe for the public and emergency response vehicles, which is their first priority.
Henrico County general obligation bonds, totaling $73.5 million, have been reaffirmed as AAA by Standard and Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s, the nation’s leading debt-rating agencies, making it the first locality in the nation to have its debt reaffirmed as AAA by the three agencies since the historic Standard and Poor’s downgrade of US government debt on [...]
A rural Short Pump road will be closed beginning next week for construction. The Henrico County Department of Public Works has announced that Kain Road will close beginning Monday, August 15 for drainage improvements related to the North Gayton Road Extension Project.
Traffic. That was the chief concern of a group of about 80 concerned residents who came out to a meeting about the future of Innsbrook last night at The Place at Innsbrook. The plan, which calls for the redevelopment of Innsbrook from an office park to a mixed use urban center to live, work and play, is currently being hammered out.
Yesterday we ran a story on the future of Innsbrook, and developer Highwoods Properties’ plan to rezone much of the office park’s land to be redeveloped as a mixed use center, with multiple uses under one roof. But what would it actually look like? The first photo below is a recent aerial shot of the [...]
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