Developer wins approval to remake Laurel Shopping center property
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A developer’s plans to breathe new life into the site of a nearly 60-year-old shopping center in Glen Allen earned approval from Henrico’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday night.
The board voted unanimously to approve rezoning plans that will allow Millspring Commons Apartments, LLC to raze the Laurel Park shopping center at Woodman and Hungary Roads and build as many as 278 apartments and 72 townhomes in several three-story residential buildings, as well as some commercial space along Hungary Road.
“Not only does this county deserve to have some improvement in this corridor, those [nearby] residents deserve it,” Brookland District Supervisor Dan Schmitt said. “They came out to the community meeting, they expressed their opinion and quite frankly they supported it. . . They came out and supported the idea of mixed use, of residential with some retail.”
The townhomes would be built closer to Woodman Road and adjacent to a nearby neighborhood, while the apartment buildings largely would take the place of the existing shopping center.
A traffic analysis conducted by county planners estimated that the new development would produce just more than 2,700 daily weekday round trips. It’s also estimated to produce 86 elementary school students, 35 middle-schoolers and 37 high-schoolers, according to planners. The former would put Trevvett Elementary School over capacity, even though some relief for the region is expected with the opening of a new twice-as-large version of Holladay Elementary next fall.
