Where Greater Richmond's growth actually went — master-planned communities, mixed-use districts, and the established eastern side that predates all of it.
Henrico is Virginia's fifth-largest county at around 334,000 people, and the growth has been concentrated almost entirely in the West End. Short Pump went from under 5,000 residents in 1990 to just over 30,000 by 2020. Wyndham roughly doubled between 2000 and 2020; Innsbrook did much the same. Glen Allen kept pace. That is a generation of master-planned and mixed-use development laid down in a single stretch of the county.
The eastern and inner side is a different proposition entirely. Tuckahoe is the county's largest census place and has been settled for decades. Highland Springs, East Highland Park and the Varina side are older, smaller and in many cases predate the association model as it is now practiced. A management approach built for a 2005 master-planned community does not transfer cleanly to a 1960s subdivision with a short declaration and no amenities — and the reverse is just as true.
The West End also produced something most counties do not have in volume: associations that are not purely residential. Mixed-use districts and office-and-retail environments generate commercial and mixed-use owners' associations, where the budget, the insurance and the voting structure all behave differently from a townhome HOA. That is work we already do, and it is part of why Henrico sits alongside our Richmond market rather than inside it.
See the community types we manageMatched to what your community actually is, rather than one approach applied to all of them.
Tell us where in the county you are and what kind of community you run — the West End and the East End need different things, and we'll propose accordingly.
