A rendering of the apartment building planned at the corner of Leigh and Second streets. (Images courtesy of the City of Richmond)
Developer David Gammino’s plans for a new five-story apartment building in Jackson Ward are coming into fuller view.
The owner of Richmond-based construction firm City & Guilds has filed development plans and renderings with the city that provide a clearer picture of the 63-unit structure he plans to build at 208-212 E. Leigh St.
David Gammino
The nearly 66,000-square-foot building would replace a parking lot on the property at the corner of Leigh and Second streets. The roughly 1-acre property, which Gammino purchased last year for $3 million, includes two existing century-old buildings that would remain in place.
Those mixed-use buildings house 22 apartments and offices for City & Guilds and Gammino’s Urban Dwell Property Management firm. Gammino was the general contractor on those buildings when they were adapted a decade ago.
Forming an L-shape at the corner of Leigh and Second, the new building would consist of four floors of apartments above structured parking on the ground floor with 39 spaces, contributing to a total of 52 spaces on the property. The ground level also would include 2,600 square feet of commercial space, with storefronts oriented toward the corner.
The market-rate apartments would consist of 44 one-bedroom units and 19 two-bedrooms, ranging in size from 670 to 1,270 square feet. Units would include washers and dryers and feature open floor plans with bathrooms and walk-in closets off the bedrooms.
The top floor would include a clubroom and rooftop deck overlooking the intersection. Other amenities would include covered bike racks and a mail room.
Gammino has estimated the cost at $13 million and said the project would be developed using Opportunity Zone tax benefits. He could not be reached Wednesday afternoon.
An aerial image shows the project site outlined in green.
The building was designed by Todd Dykshorn’s Architecture Design Office, and Mark Baker of Baker Development Resources is handling Gammino’s application for a special-use permit to allow the building height. The property’s existing zoning limits building heights to about three stories.
The SUP is set to go before the Planning Commission at its Jan. 3 meeting. A final decision on the request would come from the City Council.
The property is adjacent to Third Street Bethel AME Church and across Second Street from the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site. Across Leigh, the mixed-use Eggleston Plaza was built in recent years, and just to the north is the mixed-use development that includes The Rosa and Van de Vyver apartments.
A couple blocks south, a similar-shaped but taller infill apartment project is in the works at 200 E. Marshall St., where Parkway Corp. and SNP Properties plan to build a 12-story mixed-use building with over 250 apartments.
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