RICHMOND BIZSENSE- March 10, 2025
“Nearly 80 years after it first opened and five decades since its last expansion, the Hermitage Richmond retirement community in the city’s Northside is slated for a multimillion-dollar transformation.
Pinnacle Living, which owns and operates the community at Hermitage Road and Westwood Avenue, is planning a complete overhaul that would replace the existing complex with larger and taller buildings and increase its capacity to 233 apartments. The community currently serves 145 residents with a mix of independent and assisted living facilities.
The redevelopment would also reorient the 7-acre campus layout with three- and five-story buildings positioned closer to Hermitage and Westwood and parking behind them with access off Palmyra and Chatham roads.
Plans call for two five-story buildings that would front Hermitage and Westwood at their intersection with Brookland Parkway and Arthur Ashe Boulevard. Those buildings would house 161 independent living units, a two-level “town center” that would anchor the campus, and underground structured parking with 161 spaces.
A three-story building with 48 assisted living units and 24 memory care units would fill the corner of Westwood and Chatham. Plans also show two 3½-story, 20-unit buildings along Palmyra as future construction.
The new construction would be phased so that current residents can remain on-site through the duration of the project, which Henderson said would likely last 30 months due to the phasing. Pending permitting from the city, he said construction could start a year from now, with completion targeted for 2028.
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