Bank & Gas Station to be Demolished for New Drug Store at Broad & Pouncey Tract

The west corner of West Broad Street and Pouncey Tract Road, vacant for the past several years, is about to get new life breathed into it. A new 12,000-square-foot Walgreen’s drug store has been approved on a 1.62 acre parcel where a former Wachovia Bank and Miller’s Neighborhood Market currently stand. Both will soon be demolished.

February 10, 2012; 4:37 PM • by Trevor Dickerson

The west corner of West Broad Street and Pouncey Tract Road, vacant for the past several years, is about to get new life breathed into it. A new 12,000-square-foot Walgreen’s drug store has been approved on a 1.62 acre parcel where a former Wachovia Bank and Miller’s Neighborhood Market currently stand. Both will soon be demolished.

The two-story, 8,000-square-foot bank building was built in 1987, pre-dating almost all other commercial structures in the immediate Short Pump area besides the former S&K Menswear headquarters and the Midas car care center. A commercial real estate site listed the building at $2.2 million.

We reported last month that the adjacent Miller’s Neighborhood Market closed. The gas station and convenience store was added to the bank parcel for redevelopment.

The parcel sits on one corner of the most highly-trafficked intersection in Henrico County by recent VDOT estimates.

The new drug store will be one story and include a drive-thru window. To help with traffic flow, a right turn lane will be added to the southbound side of Pouncey Tract Road to allow motorists to turn west onto West Broad Street.

A layout of the site is included below:

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