HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) – Henrico County officials are looking to determine the future of Glenwood Farms Apartments in the county’s east end after residents say countless maintenance repairs were ignored.
Glenwood Farms Apartments was built in 1948 and has 294 apartments on a 22-acre property. In 2018, Apex Glenwood VA, LLC acquired the property and since then, the county says it has conducted over a thousand inspections and issued hundreds of violations. 8News previously spoke with residents, who called their living conditions “terrible” and “unacceptable.”
In 2022, the county launched a rental inspection program with a specific focus on making repairs at Glenwood Farms. According to county officials, in November 2023, A judge appointed a receiver of the property and an interim property manager to make repairs and prepare the property for sale.
“Our desire would be for a local, reputable and responsible development team to purchase Glenwood Farms and redevelop it into a mixed-income development. We would hope that the purchaser would create a range of rental and for-sale housing options (affordable, workforce and market-rate units) to meet the housing needs of the broader community. Any redevelopment of the community would likely be phased in over time, and we will ask the development team to mitigate, to the extent possible, the impact on existing tenants by creating affordable housing options as redevelopment occurs,” said a Henrico County spokesperson.
The spokesperson told 8News that a contractor has been hired to assess the buildings and repairs are underway. The property will be sold after the repairs are completed, which could take place in the coming months. The goal is for the new buyer to be a local and reputable company that will redevelop the land to affordable housing.
“The county has started productive conversations with the receiver and the interim property manager to make sure that immediate and the most pressing needs are addressed as quickly as possible. We are also willing to assist with identifying the right team to take on this important development project. Our shared goal is to improve conditions for the residents and the adjacent area,” said the spokesperson.
