Developer proposing $1B data center, office park in Eastern Henrico; Reviving Virginia’s historic Black cemeteries after decades of neglect

Henrico Newsflash – Dec. 6, 2023

Dec 06, 2023

Developer proposing $1B data center, office park in Eastern Henrico

A Richmond developer is proposing a data center and advanced manufacturing light industrial complex on one of Henrico’s most appealing undeveloped sites, a 622-acre tract of land where it believes the concept will attract more than $1 billion in private investments.

Hourigan, a construction and development firm, filed initial rezoning plans with Henrico County last month, seeking to build the VAH Data Center Campus on prime real estate in Sandston, at the southeastern intersection of I-295 and I-64, along East Williamsburg Road at Technology Boulevard. Click here to read more

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Reviving Virginia’s historic Black cemeteries after decades of neglect

Hidden beneath the foliage at East End Cemetery are gravestones split in half, sunken into the earth and grave markers divorced from the bodies they honor. The Richmond cemetery is littered with fallen trees and debris.

East End is not the only cemetery to find this fate. Historically Black and African American cemeteries across Virginia have been neglected for years. The tide is just now starting to turn. Click here to read more