// mls zone 10 // Jackson Ward
The Marshall Street Bakery is another project redefining the landscape of Jackson Ward
The MSBC is a mixed use project formed from the facade of what used to be the Mother Herbert’s Bakery building near the triangle at Broad and Adams in the west-central Jackson Ward Neighborhood. It is located almost equidistant between VCU Monroe Park Campus and the Medical School and more or less shares a corner with Gallery 5, The Emrick Flats and The Richmond Dairy Apartments. It comprises 23 residential units (1 and 2 bedroom units from about 700-1300 SF), 23 garage parking spaces and about 3000 SF of commercial/creative office space at street level.
The project is unique in that it has one of the nicer amenity packages for a project on its scale. It has a secluded courtyard, exercise room and roof deck whose access can be reached with the elevator (which is rare.) It also has a nice level of finish with bamboo floors, private decks and patios, granite counters, maple cabinets and other upgraded finishes in the kitchens and baths.
The building was just a facade when acquired by the developers
The truly interesting thing about the project is that since the building was so dilapidated (it was really just a facade with no roof and no floor structure) that the large majority of the project is brand new. In so many of the historic rehab/renovations endeavors, a large part of the building’s structure is reused (flooring, exterior walls, windows, support beams.) At the MSBC, no real structure remained so the project became a new building tucked in neatly behind the original facade. This has a dramatic (positive!) effect on the tax abatement and also speaks to the buyer that wants new stuff in an old environment.
