The ABC recently signed a lease for a new retail location slated to open in the coming months at the Shops at Stratford Hills. Pictured is the ABC store on Forest Avenue that would be moved to the shopping center across the street. (Jack Jacobs photos)
A shuttered South Richmond home goods store has been partially taken over by the state’s booze purveyor.
The Virginia ABC recently signed a lease to open a liquor store in a portion of the space formerly occupied by retailer Popshelf at the Shops at Stratford Hills center.
The upcoming ABC store is anticipated to open by March and will occupy 5,800 square feet carved out of the 10,400-square-foot space at 7101-F Forest Hill Ave., according to Thalhimer’s Reilly Marchant, who handles leasing at the center.
The project involves the relocation of the existing 5,000-square-foot ABC store at 7036 Forest Hill Ave. across the street from the newly leased space at the Shops at Stratford Hills
The center’s Popshelf closed in 2025 after opening there in 2023. Popshelf (stylized as pOpshelf), which sells home goods, kitchen items and other products, is owned by Dollar General and continues to operate stores in Chesterfield and Colonial Heights.
The new ABC store would operate out of a portion of the closed Popshelf, which operated for a couple years.
The project involves the relocation of the existing 5,000-square-foot ABC store at 7036 Forest Hill Ave. across the street from the newly leased space at the Shops at Stratford Hills, according to an ABC spokeswoman.
The ABC would follow other recent additions into the Target- and Publix-anchored Shops at Stratford Hills.
Dance studio Bella Ballerina is now open in the center, and Chipotle also opened this year in a new-construction outparcel at Forest Hill Avenue and Cherokee Road. A dental office recently opened in a former restaurant outparcel at the center.
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