4
Workstreams
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Counties
$8–14/sq ft
Rural VA Flex Benchmark
Ready Day 1
Sheet Status

Three county EDAs, three letters, in parallel

Report #1769303 names the Fluvanna, Buckingham, and Cumberland county EDAs as the holders of the strongest facility leads in the 30–45 minute ring — the off-market shell buildings and EDA-held parcels that CoStar and LoopNet cannot see. Letter copy for all three counties is already drafted at /eda-outreach-fluvanna-buckingham-cumberland.html; this tracker tracks the conversation side — sent, follow-up date, response, next step.

County & Contact Status Notes
Fluvanna — Palmyra industrial park / shell buildings Jennifer Schmack, Director of Economic Development, Fluvanna County EDA, P.O. Box 540, Palmyra, VA 22963 Not Started
Buckingham — 160-acre Industrial Park on West James Anderson Hwy Karl Carter, County Administrator (EDA POC), P.O. Box 252, Buckingham, VA 23921 Not Started
Cumberland — 1 Courthouse Circle / Cartersville / US-60 corridor Summer Medina, Interim County Administrator, Cumberland County EDA, P.O. Box 110, Cumberland, VA 23040 Not Started
Spec pulled from Report #1769303: 2,000–10,000 sq ft flex / light-industrial, dock or dock-compatible grade-level door, three-phase power, ceiling clearance for a small refrigerated room, 4,000–8,000 sq ft ideal footprint. Build-to-suit acceptable.

Five saved searches that find what CoStar shows

LoopNet will surface the publicly-listed subset of the inventory; it won't see the off-market EDA-held stock, but it captures turn-key flex and buildable pads we can negotiate on first contact. Save each search as a named alert in the IronRoost LoopNet account so owner alerts fire when new inventory hits the filters.

Saved Search Status Notes
Light-industrial 2,000–10,000 sq ft — FBC + Cville 30 mi Fluvanna, Buckingham, Cumberland + Charlottesville radius 30 mi, light-industrial zoning Not Started
Flex / warehouse with dock + 3-phase power Dock or grade-level door, three-phase power service, ceiling clearance 16'+ Not Started
Build-to-suit parcels 1–5 acres, industrial zoning 1–5 acre parcels, industrial / M-1 zoning, utilities at curb Not Started
Refrigerated / cold-storage flex space Cold storage or refrigerated flex space, 500–8,000 sq ft, dock-high Not Started
Sub-$1.4M acquisition, light-industrial Listed for-sale inventory under $1.4M, light-industrial / flex, FBC corridor Not Started
Tighter than CoStar: LoopNet's free-text filters catch flex / shell-building inventory CoStar buries behind a paywall. Set alert cadence to daily; refresh saved searches monthly so new inventory lands.

Five brokerages, five 15-minute calls

Commercial brokers representing Central Virginia tenants will already know which off-market flex pads have sat vacant for a quarter and which landlords will entertain a build-to-suit MOT. Cold-call each of the five below with the same one-page space-program brief and the same back-of-envelope rent numbers; the first brokerage to surface a viable building earns the listing call.

Brokerage & Contact Status Notes
Thalhimer (CBRE-Richmond affiliate) Richmond-based, known VA flex-industrial coverage. Main line 804-643-2000. Ask for industrial tenant rep. Not Started
CBRE Richmond — Charlottesville industrial team Richmond HQ; Cville office handles central VA industrial. Ask for industrial leasing associate on FBC corridor. Not Started
Cushman & Wakefield — Virginia Industrial Mid-Atlantic industrial practice. Ask for the associate who covers central VA / I-64 corridor. Not Started
NAI EMR (Charlottesville / Lynchburg office) Regional brokerage with central VA presence. Ask for associate on the Fluvanna / Buckingham county line. Not Started
Sperity Real Estate (formerly SperryVanNess) Mid-Atlantic investor / tenant-rep shop. Look for the associate handling small-tenant flex representation under 10K sq ft. Not Started
Rent benchmarks from Report #1769303 to negotiate against: $8–14/sq ft NNN for rural VA flex · $10–18/sq ft NNN for Charlottesville-adjacent flex · build-to-suit land $35,000–$80,000/acre in target counties (Fluvanna / Buckingham / Cumberland).

Five public portals to bookmark and check weekly

County GIS portals and state-level site-readiness inventories give a public-record signal on which parcels the counties themselves believe are build-ready. Check each once at outset to seed the workstream; recheck monthly for new inventory.

Portal Status Notes
Fluvanna County GIS / property viewer Public parcel viewer for Fluvanna County — cross-check Palmyra industrial-park parcels for owner-of-record signals Not Started fluvannacounty.org → Real Estate Assessor
Buckingham County real estate / land records Public land records for Buckingham County — cross-check 160-acre Industrial Park parcel ownership and adjacent tracts Not Started buckinghamcountyva.org → Real Estate Assessor
Cumberland County real estate / land records Public land records for Cumberland County — cross-check 1 Courthouse Circle and US-60 corridor parcels Not Started cumberlandcounty.virginia.gov → Real Estate Assessor
VA Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) — underused-properties list Statewide underused-properties inventory; filter to TJPDC counties for FBC-corridor candidates Not Started cit.org → VA Center for Innovative Technology
VBRSP (Virginia Business Ready Sites Program) tier-site inventory State tier-site inventory — filter to PDCC / TJPDC counties for shovel-ready industrial pads Not Started dhcd.virginia.gov → VBRSP inventory