A conceptual plan for the Nunnally Village project, with residential areas shown in yellow and multi-use in orange. (County documents)
A massive mixed-use development in western Chesterfield is working its way through the county’s zoning approval process.
The Planning Commission on Tuesday voted to recommend approval of Nunnally Village, a 204-acre project at the intersection of Hull Street and Otterdale roads that would feature several hundred thousand square feet of commercial space, including a grocery store as well as a hospital and up to 1,000 residential units.
Henrico-based real estate firm Markel | Eagle Partners and local developer Ed Nunnally are behind the project.
Nunnally Village’s residential piece would comprise 100 single-family homes, 500 townhomes and 400 apartments. On the commercial side, there would be more than 280,000 square feet of additional retail and medical office uses, according to project filings.
A 135,000-square-foot Kroger grocery store would also be part of the project, according to Jeff Geiger of Hirschler, who is representing the applicant in its zoning request.
EAT Restaurant Partners is expected to operate multiple restaurants at the development, Geiger said. The local restaurant group runs eateries like Wong’s Tacos, Fat Dragon and Osaka among others.
The project is proposed in a growing area of Chesterfield, and Geiger pitched the proposal as a means to bring stores and medical facilities to nearby neighborhoods.
“Their objective, Both Mr. Nunnally and Markel | Eagle, was to bring more grocery, restaurant and shopping opportunities to those who live nearby,” Geiger told commissioners. “These communities currently drive north or south to get on Hull Street and drive east. You get a lot of traffic flow going to the east. With this new development, that shorter drive coming in will have a positive impact on the Hull Street network.”
An HCA hospital would also anchor the project on 24 acres of the overall site. HCA secured state regulatory approval earlier this year to open a 60-bed, $260 million hospital on the property, and the health system plans to expand the facility to a total of 200 beds over time.
The first phase of the project, where most of the development’s mixed-use portions are planned along Hull Street and Otterdale, is expected to take more than five years to build. The largely residential second phase, north of a planned linear park, is expected to begin in 2030 to 2032 and take more than five years to build out.
The project team has previously said Nunnally Village would be similar to the GreenGate development in Short Pump, which is also a Markel | Eagle project.
Among the developers’ proposed proffered conditions is a requirement that no building permits for dwellings planned north of the project’s linear park would be issued until Route 360 is widened from Otterdale Road to Woodlake Village Parkway or Jan. 1, 2032, whichever comes first. A staff report states that preliminary engineering on the widening project, which would be handled by the county, is underway and construction is slated to start in 2029.
Also, Nunnally Village couldn’t have more than 400 total dwelling units until the approval of a site plan and building permits associated with at least 50,000 square feet of non-residential uses, and the start of land disturbance on the site.
Nunnally Village is expected to be similar to Markel | Eagle’s GreenGate development in the Short Pump area of Henrico. (BizSense file)
The project would include multiple proffered road improvements, including an agreement by the developers to build a 1,300-foot, westbound travel lane on Hull Street along the project’s frontage. The developer is anticipated to pay the county $3.9 million in road cash proffers, and make $2.3 million in off-site road improvements. There would be up to three direct vehicle access points on Hull Street Road, and a maximum of four direct vehicle entrances on Otterdale Road.
The project would rise on a multi-parcel assemblage that includes 16100 and 16500 Hull Street and other addresses. The land is owned by an LLC tied to Markel | Eagle and the Nunnally family, which plan to develop the project in a joint venture. The undeveloped site is in a growing area of Chesterfield and surrounded by the Magnolia Green subdivision to the west, Harpers Mill to the south and Cosby Village to the east.
The planning commission voted unanimously to recommend the project’s zoning approval to the board of supervisors, which is expected to provide a final verdict on the project at a future meeting. Staff recommends approval of the project. Nunnally Village’s zoning request was filed around this time last year, following the project announcement in 2024.
Cite Design is also involved in the project.
One person spoke in opposition to the project during the public hearing that preceded the commission’s vote. While the critic thought the new hospital was needed, he also felt the project included too many proposed dwellings.
The applicant is seeking to rezone the site to Corridor Commercial (CC) and Transitional Residential (TR), as well as conditional use approval and adjustments to ordinance requirements.
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