Six-unit townhome infill planned to replace Shockoe Bottom parking lot

The three-story townhomes proposed off North 20th Street by Center Creek Homes. (City documents)

A half dozen townhomes are being planned in Shockoe Bottom beside the site of another residential infill that’s already underway.

Center Creek Homes is planning six three-story townhomes at 212-218 N. 20th St. The quarter-acre lot is beside where Keel Custom Homes has started building five townhomes of its own.

Currently a gravel parking lot, the Center Creek site abuts the Terrace 202 apartments and is currently owned by an LLC tied to local developer Monument Cos.

Viewed from the mid-block alley with 20th Street behind it, the parking lot is beside where Keel Custom Homes has started foundations for its townhomes. (Jonathan Spiers photo)

Center Creek has the site under contract. An application to the city for conceptual review lists an LLC tied to the company as the property owner. The city has assessed the four parcels that make up the site at $727,000 combined.

Greg Shron

The property was marketed for sale with an undisclosed asking price by One South Commercial’s Chris Corrada, Lory Markham and Ann Schweitzer Riley. Center Creek COO Greg Shron said the brokers alerted the company to the site, which One South’s listing said could accommodate as many as 10 townhomes.

“It’s a neighborhood that’s obviously not foreign to or afraid of density, so the proposal to put six townhouses in there I don’t think was raising any eyebrows,” Shron said.

The townhomes would include rooftop terraces, fenced rear yards and one- or two-car garages accessed via a driveway between 20th and a mid-block alley. The homes would drop in height 16 feet per unit along the sloped site and would back up to the five homes Keel is planning at 220 N. 20th St.

The units would face southward and back up to five townhomes in the works by Keel Custom Homes.

Five of the six units would face southward toward the driveway, while a larger end unit beside 20th would be oriented toward the street. The end unit would total 2,200 square feet with four bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms, while the rest of the units would be 1,800 square feet with three bedrooms and 3½ baths.

Shron said prices for those units would be in the $600,000s, while the larger unit would be priced higher, potentially in the low $700,000s. If approved according to schedule, Shron said the homes would start being delivered early next year.

A conceptual review by Richmond’s Commission of Architectural Review is required for the project because the site is in the city’s Shockoe Valley Old and Historic District. CAR has scheduled its review for its regular meeting later this month.

The townhome heights would drop 16 feet per unit along the sloped site.

The townhomes would add to a slew of infill projects that Center Creek is actively working on in Richmond.

It’s building two three-story townhomes with accessory dwelling units on what used to be a parking lot along Arthur Ashe Boulevard across the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The firm also is planning a 15-home infill beside a centuries-old house on Grove Avenue beside the Malvern Manor apartments.

The 20th Street townhomes also would add to other infill developments in the works in Shockoe Bottom. Around the block, plans have been progressing for two infill apartment buildings that would each rise five stories: a 36-unit building at 1906-1910 E. Broad St.; and a 31-unit building beside the Branch Public Baths building at Broad and 18th streets.

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