A state agency is trading its downtown Richmond digs for a new headquarters across the city line.
The Virginia Employment Commission is moving its headquarters to a 79,254-square-foot office space at 6606 W. Broad St. in a building dubbed Brookfield Place in Henrico County. The state agency will be on five floors in the eight-floor building.
The agency’s 300 employees currently are based out of an office at 703 E. Main St. in downtown Richmond.
Plans call for the state agency to begin moving to Brookfield Place in September, says Joyce Fogg, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Employment Commission. She says the state has a ten-year lease for its new space.
Fogg says the state has been looking for a new headquarters for the Virginia Employment Commission for about eight or nine months. She says the current downtown location is an older building in need of repairs.
