Jurisdiction: US — Virginia (PJM/Dominion)
5209 Wilkinson Road, Henrico County, VA — 65,000 sq ft on ~5 acres of a 30-acre former Azalea Flea Market parcel ($8M, transferred 2025-01-16), behind the CubeSmart self-storage facility. DC BLOX's first Virginia site; single-tenant, telecom-centric. By-right (existing B-3 zoning permits data centers); mobilization permitted Mar 2026, main building permit BLD-2025-111018 issued 2026-04-06 (65,752 sq ft, $29.1M total project value), retaining wall Apr 2026, fire-protection permit Jun 2026 (county records). Coords from the street address.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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Dimension
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | DC BLOX Henrico (Wilkinson Road) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Capital | baseline | 40 | DC BLOX Henrico (Wilkinson Road) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | DC BLOX Henrico (Wilkinson Road) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Regulatory | permit granted | +6 | Construction Permit | Permitting milestone "Construction Permit" achieved on 2026-03-10. |
| Regulatory | permit granted | +6 | Construction Permit | Permitting milestone "Construction Permit" achieved on 2026-04-06. |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | DC BLOX Henrico (Wilkinson Road) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Construction Permit | Milestone "Construction Permit" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-03-10). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Construction Permit | Milestone "Construction Permit" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-04-06). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Land Acquired | Milestone "Land Acquired" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-01-16). |
Land acquired · Actual:
Construction permit · Actual:
Construction permit · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Entity
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Role
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Ownership
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Committed capital
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| DC BLOX | — | — | |
| Burr Computer Environments (BCEI) | — | — |
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
Henrico County Build Henrico permit portal · Mar 10, 2026 · backs: actual date, status
https://build.henrico.gov/henprod/pub/lms/Default.aspx?PossePresentation=Public&PosseObjectId=101032339
Henrico County · backs: actual date
https://henrico.gov/assets/APR2026_BuildingPermits.xlsx
Data Center Frontier · Mar 5, 2025 · backs: actual date
https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/55269118/amid-shifting-regional-data-center-policies-iron-mountain-and-dc-blox-both-expand-in-virginias-henrico-county
Richmond BizSense · Feb 18, 2025 · backs: capacity mw
https://richmondbizsense.com/2025/02/18/developer-moving-forward-with-data-center-project-after-buying-azalea-flea-market-site-for-8m/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Henrico County Build Henrico permit portal · relevance 0.70
· Richmond BizSense · relevance 0.70
Henrico County · relevance 0.15