Walthall Motor Center

Colonial Honda in Petersburg and Priority Toyota in Colonial Heights have bought land at the Walthall exit off I-95. Colonial Honda’s owner also bought an additional site to potentially put another dealership there.

Colonial Honda of Petersburg will be moving to southern Chesterfield next year. The company purchased two parcels off Interstate 95 at the Walthall exit. The new location means that the dealership will be closer to a growing part of southern Chesterfield and to state Route 288. The company will begin construction this fall on seven acres. In addition, the Richmond Times-Dispatch has reported that Priority Toyota out of Colonial Heights has also purchased property at the same location and should begin construction on its 9-acre site early next year. It should be completed by late 2005.

The two dealerships from Petersburg and Colonial Heights will move to a planned auto mall facing Interstate 95 in southern Chesterfield County next year. The 50-acre Walthall Center development could possibly accommodate as many as two more car lots at the location.

General Land is developing the site with Richmonder P.C. Amin, who owns Shamin Hotels. Amin’s hotel properties include the Holiday Inn Express near Brandermill and in Ashland. Plans for the development call for a fourth dealership, a 120-room hotel and a couple of restaurants.