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Mixed-use project planned in Spotsy: Developers make pitch for green mixed-use development for the Jackson Gateway off U.S. 1
(Free Lance-Star, The (Fredericksburg, VA) (KRT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Apr. 26--A group associated with the Luck Stone quarry wants to build a mixed-use development on the banks of the Ni River in Spotsylvania County.
Luck Development Partners plans to file a rezoning application later this year for the development proposed for U.S. 1, near Massaponax High School.
It would be the first mixed-use development for an area supervisors have dubbed the Jackson Gateway, targeted in the updated comprehensive land-use plan for industrial and office complexes in campus-like settings.
"River Run" will be the second major mixed-use rezoning proposed this year, an indication that developers believe the housing market and economy will rebound in the next two years. The project is on two tracts, on both sides of U.S. 1.
The developers want about 605,000 square feet of high-end office space, about 85,000 square feet of retail and a mix of 655 housing units. The project would build out in four phases.
The first rezoning proposal, filed earlier this year, is Tricord's 20-year, 5,925-home Summit Crossing, east of Interstate 95 and south of U.S. 17 near the Massaponax area.
Luck Development Partners representatives said they will use green technology that is sensitive to the bucolic landscape and use natural plantings. They promised to preserve the ecology while providing a place where people can live, work, shop and play. The housing will be a mix of rental "lofts," condos and attached single-family units.
The developers also talked about their vision of a "greenway system" of trails connecting their sites to battlefields, public parks and the Spotsylvania Courthouse area, "a green necklace to serve this area for many generations to come," said John Pullen, vice president of Luck Development Partners.
During a stakeholders meeting at the Spotsylvania Career and Technical Center last week, they unveiled a basic design that showed this development "immersed in nature."
"We, as a company, are dedicated to bringing stakeholders to the table very early," Pullen said.
Luck Development Partners did not provide visitors with any handouts or color brochures. Renditions of the development were pinned to the walls, and about a dozen representatives stood by to answer questions. About 20 people showed up, mostly county employees.
Although they were invited, no county supervisors were present.
Economic Development Director Russell Seymour, who did attend, said there is interest for high-end office space in Spotsylvania.
"We are getting more requests now for that type of office space and we just don't have places to put them," he said. "I am looking at the job center and the conference center because those are two things we need and the demand is there."
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