Goochland County

This is the Henrico News Minute with publisher Tom Lappas.

Hundreds pack a Western Henrico meeting about proposed data centers in Goochland County.

We'll tell you about that story and more in today's Henrico News Minute.

It's Wednesday, October 21st, 2026.

And now for the news.

A community meeting in western Henrico organized by five mothers on Monday night drew a crowd of several hundred people.

The topic was the potential approval of data centers just across the Henrico line in Goochland County near Route 288.

Attendees overflowed past the entrance doors of the sanctuary and packed the adjoining lobby room at the church at Christ Church Episcopal.

This is the Henrico News Minute with publisher Tom Lappas.

Henrico residents continuing their fight against planned data centers across the county line in Goochland.

We'll tell you about that story and more in today's Henrico News Minute.

It's Monday, October 19, 2026.

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And now for the news.

With the Henrico Bordo supervisors meeting last week, a number of shore pump residents are urged supervisors to take a formal stance against several data centers that are proposed just across the border in eastern Goochland.

Developer Tract has already filed for a conditional use permit from Goochland County to build a 900-megawatt data center campus just west of 288 in Henrico's Tuckahoe.

Where can people actually visit them?

They have a pilot brewery and pizza kitchen in Scott's Addition and a state-of-the-art destination brewery campus in West Creek on the Goochland County border, with a sixty-barrel brewhouse.

Their original Richmond taproom is at twenty four ten Ownby Lane, and they are also working on opening a taproom at Richmond International Airport.

Their beer is distributed throughout Virginia, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina.

So where do people go to learn more?

Start at hardywood.com for everything from taproom hours to the events calendar.

Hardywood Richmond is at twenty four ten Ownby Lane in Richmond, and the West Creek campus sits right on the Goochland County border.

And that is the Spotlight.

Had a chance to say hello to my sheriff, Greg Six, who's a great, great, great guy doing a great job as the Hanover County sheriff.

And then I had to motor on out to Goochland and had a chance to just say a couple of words to the great sheriff out there in Goochland County, Steve Creasey.

So it's been a busy day.

And then Heidi and I are getting ready, I think, I hope, I'm pretty sure, maybe, maybe not, for the trip we have coming up.

It was a balance between public safety and the fact that people feel like their rights are being infringed upon as they drove through these cameras.

In neighboring Goochland County, the cameras went dark in August.

I've decided to suspend the Goochland County Sheriff's Office use of Flock ALPR cameras.

I think it's automated li- license plate readers.

I think that's what the A is.

It should be up to the county, city, or town if they want it.

Because I think there's lots of places for them, but I don't want to see one in Goochland County.

I know they're going to do one, but I called the Board of Supervisors and said I don't want it.

Why didn't you want it?

I think that's fantastic.

One of the first HeartSaver Awards I gave out back in my days in Richmond was actually to a Goochland County Sheriff's Deputy because they all had the ADs in the back of the vehicles and was able to arrive on scene.

So I'm with you, man, and actually that's something that we should talk about maybe in a future podcast as well, I think.

So we're almost on time here.