Esther I. Brown
dynamic, detail-oriented creativeC-VILLE Issue #18.09
Issue #18.09 :: 02/28/2006 – 03/06/2006
Phone home
LOVE ME, BUILD ME, CHAPTER 6
Another empty building finds fulfillment
Address: 1180 Seminole Trail
Area: 454,900 square feet
Owner: Seminole Trail Properties, LLC c/o Richard Hewitt
2001 Sale Price: $11.4 million
The old Comdial building is once again being put to use after a few empty years, this time by tenants including Mailing Services of Virginia, which relocated to the property in November.
The super-sized building may have some unique issues. On March 1, 2005, when the County Planning Commission approved a special permit for a possible indoor gym facility to be located there, Planning Commissioner Calvin Morris recalled that the last time the Commission had looked at the building, they found an area that had “some real problems with contamination.”
Seminole Trail Properties representative Tim Slagle responded by saying that the contamination in question was located behind the building where Comdial had had storage tanks that had leaked contaminants into the ground water. As of March 2005, Seminole Trail Properties was “in the fourth year of a six-year remediation plan with the State Department of Environmental Quality.”
—Esther Brown
