Dairy Bar Demolition Begins in Scott’s Addition: 321 Apartments Planned at Roseneath and Moore

Published October 18, 2026 | Written by the Mission Realty Team.

Demolition of the former Dairy Bar complex in Scott’s Addition is under way, and the developer says the cleared site will be ready for vertical construction in spring 2027. Richmond BizSense reporter Mike Platania covered it in an October 13, 2026 Project Snapshot. This post is our summary of that reporting, with context from earlier coverage and from the neighborhood around the site. For the full story, read the original.

What Richmond BizSense reported

The site sits at 1600 Roseneath Road and includes the neighboring 3406 W. Moore St., the former Tang & Biscuit space, about two acres in all. Capital Square, which bought the property in 2024 for $11.5 million according to BizSense, is building a mixed-use project with 321 apartments and more than 8,000 square feet of commercial space. More than 100 of the apartments will be furnished apartment-hotel rooms with shorter lease terms.

Demolition began in early October, with S.B. Cox handling the work. Natalie Mason, Capital Square’s co-head of development, told BizSense the target is a site ready for vertical construction in spring 2027. The design is wood-frame construction over about two levels of concrete podium parking, with Baskervill as architect and VHB as civil engineer. No general contractor has been chosen, and Capital Square declined to disclose the project cost.

One detail to flag: the story calls the building seven stories but describes the wood-frame portion as five stories. Those can both be true if the podium counts toward the total, but the article does not spell that out.

How this compares with the 2024 approval

BizSense reported on the City Council vote that Richmond City Council approved a special-use permit for the project at its July 22, 2024 meeting, on the consent agenda. That story described 320 apartments, about a third of them hotel apartments, in a building of up to eight stories, which is why a special-use permit was needed. The plan in 2026 is close to what the city approved.

What it means for the blocks around it

This corner currently holds low-rise buildings: a diner and a bar. In a few years it is on track to hold a seven-story building with a corner food and beverage space. That is a change in scale for the Roseneath and Moore streetscape, and anyone living or working nearby should expect demolition and then construction activity for a while. We do not have a construction schedule beyond the spring 2027 site-ready target.

The project also lands next to other Capital Square work. BizSense’s February 2026 coverage of Chasen describes a 352-apartment, three-building complex at West Marshall and West Clay streets that opened this year, with ground-floor commercial space still being marketed for lease. The October story adds that Chasen is about 60% leased and has roughly 5,400 square feet of commercial space available. It also mentions The Otis across the street from the Dairy Bar site and a 600-plus-unit redevelopment of the former Greyhound station site on Arthur Ashe Boulevard. What that adds up to is a lot of new apartment supply and ground-floor retail space arriving in one part of the neighborhood. Whether the retail fills quickly is an open question that the reporting does not answer.

If you want more on how the neighborhood reads day to day, see our Scott’s Addition neighborhood guide and our piece on dinner-only restaurants near Clay and Altamont.

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