Category: Developers & Builders

  • ASC is not for we…

    Acoustical Sheetmetal Company (ASC) is the gateway for data centers. While first started in Virginia Beach as STECA, and subsequently ASI (2007).  In  2019, it was acquired by RTK Family Capital LLC and Young Capital Partners LLC private investment firms.

    2025 September – City Council cosigns on the illegal carve-out at Hudome Way, total of 44 acres and 550,000 sq. ft.

    2022 October – Recipient of the illegal carveout of agricultural land to industrial, additional 135,000 sq. ft.

    2021 May – Hudome Way campus opens.

    2020 July – $15.8M from VEDP for new campus off Hudome Way below the Green Line, 100,000 sq. ft.

    2019 February 1 – New ASC (no former owners involved) RTK announces a Richmond-based Margaret Shaia as CEO, board member, and CEO.

    2019 January 2 – “Acoustical Sheetmetal Company LLC” registered with Virginia SCC, ID S7959051.

    2018-2019 – ASI is acquired by RTK Family Capital LLC and Young Capital Partners LLC, both Richmond investment firms who, “avoided a formal sale process, networking quietly through a trusted advisor for a buyer with ‘no intention of reselling.’”

    The lie – ASI was acquired by a private equity firm in 2019 to become ASC.  Not the same company, it is owned by a Richmond firm.

    Late 2018 – original owners retire after 25 years.

    2007 – located at Corporate Landing Parkway, 2600 Production Road, as Acoustical Sheetmetal Incorporated (ASI), 5 acres 100,000 sq. ft. facility.

    1990s – STECA owner Dieter Steinhoff

  • Cheryl McLeskey

    Destroyer of wetlands, stealer of nature, and the ‘by-right’ granted by the City of Virginia Beach to harm anyone, at any time, anywhere even when it is a public park protected under the Open Space Land Act.

    June 10, 2026 Planning Commission Meeting

    April 8, 2026
    City Council pays $2.5 million to purchase five parcels at Pleasure House Point. The problem – it is wetlands. More than likely it had been tax-exempt prior to this purchase.

    If the City enforced the laws you cannot develop wetlands – there is no right to build wetlands parcels that were once tax-exempt prior to 2018 when the City Treasurer unlawfully removed tax-exempt parcels citywide, presented fraudulent tax liens to owners of record prior to becoming exempt under the Virginia Constitution, and handed these parcels to developers.

    This is how every single piece of land throughout the City is being overdeveloped. It’s illegal. It’s negligent. It’s corruption.

    January 2025
    City of Virginia Beach spends $12 million to clear at least twelve acres of palustrine wetlands so McLeskey’s development (also in wetlands) has a water view. And yes, this is all in the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area but the City exempts their pet-builders.

    March 2024
    City pays McLeskey millions for parcels at Washington Square. The problem – the parcels were set aside for a public park in 1972 where the City already had title.

    City of Virginia Beach using taxpayer money to pay for land they already own.

  • Collier & Associates LP

    Registered Address:
    2306 Bayberry Street
    Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451

    Registered Agent:
    William H. O’Brien
    1397 Laskin Road
    Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451

    Directors/Officers:
    Josie L. Collier
    Robert Collier
    William H. O’Brien


    PROJECT:
    2352, 2348 & 4701
    Windway Lane; 4753 Birdsong Lane; 2324
    & 2336 Pleasure House Road
    General Partners:
    BWF Windsong LLC
    Dwight D. Dunton III, Manager
    Limited Partners:
    Windsong GP LLC
    G. Gregory Leitz, Manager
    Eunice N. Collier, Trustee of the Eunice N. Collier Revocable Living Trust
    G. Gregory Leitz
    Bonaventure Wealth Fund, LLC
    Dwight D. Dunton, III, Manager

    GPINS:  1479498223; 1479592736; 1479590821; 1479499651; 1479592334; 1479582958; 1479498478

    January 19, 2021 — VBCC Meeting

    January 19, 2021 VBCC vote

    No
    Henley
    Jones
    Moss
    Wood

    Lorax Design Group
    J Price Architecture
    Timmons Group
    Troutman Pepper LP (Nutter)

    December 9, 2020
    Planning Commission approved

    December 9, 2020 Planning Commission vote

    Aye:                                                     
    George Alcaraz
    Jack Wall
    David Weiner
    Whitney Graham                                                                      
    Michael Inman
    Dee Oliver
    David Redmond                                                                          
    Nay:
    Robyn Klein
    Absent:
    Steve Barnes
    Donald Horsely
    John Coston

    January 15, 2021

    January 10, 2021 ad VP Beacon

    January 4, 2021
    Notified adjacent property owners.

    January 3, 2021 ad VP Beacon

    December 3, 2020

    November 29, 2020 ad VP Beacon

    November 23, 2020
    ??? Were they notified on the 23rd or is the PC public hearing on the 23rd ???

    November 22, 2020 ad VP Beacon

    November 9, 2020 public notice sign posted

    November 4, 2020 – PC deferred

    August 18, 2020
    Thoroughgood Colony meeting

    July 1, 2020 Collier and First National Bank of PA to Independent Trustees Inc. as substituted trustee.
    GPIN 1479 49 822 3 0000 (and some)

    December 2, 2019
    Morning Star Baptist Church meeting

    September 19, 2019
    Bayfront Advisory Commission meeting

    April 29, 2019
    Shore Drive Community Coalition meeting

    March 18, 2019
    Chesapeake Beach Civic League meeting

    February 21, 2019
    Bayfront Advisory Commission meeting


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  • 1964 Fisher Arch – Gee’s Group LLC  August 14, 2019 – Planning Commission Meeting

    1964 Fisher Arch – Gee’s Group LLC August 14, 2019 – Planning Commission Meeting

    November 14, 2018


    Gee’s Group LLC requested a deferral back on November 14, 2018 in order to, “address stormwater management.”

    Their request is to build a, “mini-warehouse.”

    About the Developer

    Gee’s Group Real Estate Development has an office at 600 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200 in Virginia Beach.

    There is an extensive portfolio at Gee’s Group which consists of concrete and rooftops.

    So, what can we expect this “mini-warehouse” to be? I will opine before receiving the planning documents that will be along the lines of the Squirrel Away Storage Gee’s built on Baxter Road.

    Squirrel Away Storage
    4720 Baxter Road in Virginia Beach

    Company’s Campaign Contributions

    Gee’s Group LLC
    Rosemary Wilson at $250

    Owner contributions

    David M. Gianascoli
    Louis Jones at $250
    John Moss at $250
    Jim Wood at $250
    (*also Oliver and Kane)

    Joseph Michael Gianascoli
    (*$3,500 to Sessoms)

    Michael Robert Gianascoli
    Lois Jones at $250
    John Moss at $250
    Jim Wood at $250
    (*also Oliver)