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Centra Logistics data center campus (Darbytown Road)

Centra Logistics

Status
Vested-rights appeal denied (Feb 26, 2026); applicant pursuing by-right warehouses
Developer / parties
Centra Logistics
Location
Varina, Henrico County
Size
About 200 acres beside the Fareva plant on Darbytown Road; site plan showed eight data center buildings; 1 million sq ft campus described in Jun 2025 (Richmond BizSense)
Concerns / impacts
Applicant argued the county changed the rules mid-process; county said landowners have no vested right in expected uses (Richmond BizSense)
Last verified
2026-11-02

Milestones

Figures are attributed in parentheses to the outlet or company that reported them. Where sources disagree, we show both.

  1. Jun 10 2025 Henrico adopted rules requiring provisional-use permits for all new data centers
  2. Dec 2025 county denied Centra's vested-rights claim
  3. Feb 26 2026 Board of Zoning Appeals upheld the denial unanimously
  4. Jan 2026 the county administratively approved an alternate plan for up to seven warehouses (Richmond BizSense)

Related records

2026-02-26
Zoning appeals Official record Henrico County · Centra Logistics data center campus (Darbytown Road)

BZA minutes (Feb 26, 2026) record that, on a motion by Mr. Johnson seconded by Mr. Green, the Board upheld the decision of the Director of Planning and denied appeal APP-2026-100056 (Darbytown Road LLC, 2300 Darbytown Road, Varina, zoning M-1); the hearing transcript in the minutes records the motion as unanimous. Richmond BizSense reported the Board unanimously upheld the county's denial of Centra Logistics' vested-rights claim for a data center campus on about 200 acres off Darbytown Road in Varina; Centra said it might pursue by-right warehouses instead (Richmond BizSense, Feb 27, 2026).

Source: henrico.gov ↗

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