The Virginia Home to sell Byrd Park facility and relocate to Hanover

The Virginia Home at 1101 Hampton St. in Richmond. The nonprofit is planning to sell the 130-bed facility and build a replacement residential facility for disabled adults in Hanover County. (Jack Jacobs photos)

After nearly a century overlooking Byrd Park, a Richmond home for adults with disabilities is preparing for a move to the suburbs.

The Virginia Home is in the early stages of a relocation to Hanover County, a process that will include selling its 130-bed facility at 1101 Hampton St. in Richmond, the nonprofit’s CEO Doug Vaughan said Thursday.

Proceeds from the sale of the Richmond property would go toward a new, larger facility to be built near the intersection of Pole Green and Bell Creek roads in eastern Hanover.

The Hampton Street facility, where The Virginia Home provides nursing and therapy services to residents, dates to the 1930s. While the facility has been expanded twice over the decades, there is no longer enough space on the property for the nonprofit to grow, Vaughan said.

The Richmond facility sits on a nearly 2-acre site occupied by a five- and six-story building fronting Hampton Street, as well as an attached annex on South Meadow Street. The facility, which hadn’t yet been listed for sale, overlooks Swan Lake and Shields Lake at Byrd Park.

The property was most recently assessed at $18.2 million, according to online city land records. The site is zoned single-family residential (R-5).

The Virginia Home has operated at 1101 Hampton St., which overlooks Byrd Park, since the 1930s.

In Hanover, The Virginia Home is planning a new 160-bed facility. The nonprofit will need both state regulatory approval for the increased resident capacity as well as a rezoning from the Hanover Board of Supervisors to build the new facility, Vaughan said.

He declined to comment further on the anticipated size or cost of the Hanover project, saying that planning was still underway.

Vaughan also declined to share the exact location of the planned Hanover project, other than to say it would rise on a 71-acre undeveloped site near Pole Green and Bell Creek roads. The nonprofit has the site under contract, and is planning to relocate there around late 2027, he said.

The Virginia Home plans to file an application to the state’s certificate of public need (COPN) program later this month to allow more residents at its planned Hanover facility. In Virginia, certain medical and healthcare facilities and equipment require approval from the state’s health commissioner before they can be established.

The organization, formerly known as The Virginia Home for Incurables, opened its first eight-resident home on the former Ross Street (now Governor Street) in 1894. The organization moved to Hampton Street by 1931, and rebranded to its current name in the 1960s, according to a history on the organization’s website.

In 2022, The Virginia Home reported $30.9 million in revenue and a net income of $8.5 million, according to tax filings. The organization has 240 employees.

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