20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to the Richmond region and central Virginia, including Glen Allen, Short Pump, Midlothian, Mechanicsville and Chester.
Richmond is Virginia's capital, an independent city on the fall line of the James River, and the center of its metro area. Deliveries reach Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan, New Kent, Charles City, Dinwiddie, Prince George, Amelia, King William, Caroline and Louisa counties. Delivery areas include the Fan District, Church Hill, Jackson Ward, Scott's Addition, Shockoe Bottom, Shockoe Slip, Carytown, the Museum District, Manchester, Oregon Hill, Randolph, Byrd Park, Woodland Heights, Forest Hill, Westover Hills, Stratford Hills, Ginter Park, Bellevue, Barton Heights, Highland Park, Union Hill, Fulton Hill and Swansboro.
Richmond is an independent city that writes and administers its own zoning under Chapter 30 of the City Code, with the Zoning Administrator issuing certificates of zoning compliance and a separate Permits and Inspections office handling building permits. The ordinance largely dates to the mid-1970s and does not name shipping containers, so a container is reviewed under the accessory structure and certificate of zoning compliance provisions rather than under a container-specific rule, and the city is currently in the middle of a full rewrite called Code Refresh.
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Houses in the Fan, Church Hill, Jackson Ward and Oregon Hill sit on narrow lots with no garage and often no driveway. When a house is opened up, a container in the rear yard or the alley can hold cabinetry, salvaged millwork, heart pine flooring and furniture on site, so the crew is not loading a truck twice a day.
Homebuilding and remodeling crews in Short Pump, Moseley, Chester, Mechanicsville and the Route 288 corridor move between sites. One container on the lot can keep tools, copper, fixtures and finish material locked down, in place of a daily tool-trailer haul.
Richmond sits where Interstate 95 crosses Interstate 64, near the distribution operations in Hanover, Chesterfield and along Route 288. A container, or a row of them at the dock, can give an operation seasonal overflow without signing for square footage it will not need in March.
Richmond Marine Terminal on the James River moves containerized cargo by barge to and from the Hampton Roads terminals. The drayage, transload and warehousing businesses that feed it work on tight ground. An owned container is storage a company controls outright, with no per diem clock running on a steamship line's box.
Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan, New Kent and Amelia are working farm country. A container can hold seed, feed, irrigation parts, chainsaws and implements dry and locked out at the field, rather than back at the barn or under a tarp.
Scott's Addition has breweries, cideries and distilleries in old industrial blocks with little back-of-house space, as do Carytown and the Fan. A container can hold kegs, glassware, seasonal patio furniture, event staging and paper goods in the lot behind the building.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact the City of Richmond Department of Planning and Development Review, Zoning Administration Office, 900 E. Broad St., Room 108, Richmond VA 23219. Phone (804) 646-6340, email [email protected], walk-in Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and phones until 5:00 p.m. Building permits and inspections go to the Permits and Inspections Office at the same address, phone (804) 646-4169, email [email protected].
Containers are available in several grades, from used wind and water tight to one-trip.
Call or text (330) 510-5817, or use the quote form above.