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Hotels, restaurants coming to Henrico Sports and Events Center site

The new Henrico Sports and Events Center, which opened late last year, is surrounded mostly by asphalt and dirt at the former site of Virginia Center Commons mall in Glen Allen. Not for long. Shamin Hotels will build two hotels and two restaurants adjacent to the arena, in keeping with initial concept plans for the site, company and county officials announced during a press conference there April 25. The company, which owns nearly 80 hotels on the East Coast, already has 19 in Henrico and is building its 20th in the Varina District. The two hotels at the arena site...

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