Chesterfield County in the Richmond MSA may be home to a new $100 million Olympic training facility.  Steve Burton, Chairman and CEO of SportsQuest, could begin construction of the facility as early as February 2009.  The project will be located in the Waterford Business Center located near the intersection of Route 288 and Powhite Parkway.

The 50 acre campus is designed in three phases.  At full build out, the training facility will have an ice skating rink, aquatics center, sports medicine clinic, fitness center, family entertainment center, 200-room hotel and retail plaza.

The project is awaiting approval from the Chesterfield Planning Commission.  Although the site is sufficiently zoned, the Commission still must approve the site plan.  Additionally, Burton is still working through some of the financing negotiations and it is unclear whether Chesterfield will contribute taxpayer dollars to the project.