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DC BLOX Henrico (Wilkinson Road)

DC BLOX Henrico (Wilkinson Road)

Construction
Confirmed

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.

Capacity
10 MW basis: it load
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

72.5 /100
72.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

95 /100
95/100

Regulatory

82 /100
82/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

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.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
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).

Milestones

  1. Land Acquired

    Achieved

    Land acquired · Actual:

  2. Construction Permit

    Achieved

    Construction permit · Actual:

  3. Construction Permit

    Achieved

    Construction permit · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
DC BLOX
Developer
Burr Computer Environments (BCEI)
General Contractor

Sources & citations

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.

  1. 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

  2. Henrico County · backs: actual date

    https://henrico.gov/assets/APR2026_BuildingPermits.xlsx

  3. 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

  4. 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/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Henrico County Build Henrico permit portal · relevance 0.70

  2. · Richmond BizSense · relevance 0.70

  3. Henrico County · relevance 0.15