256 E Cawson St
Hopewell, VA 23860

$5,694 USD/MO

Office For Lease • 8,541 SF

Property Details

Property Type Office
Year Built 1947
Total Building Size 10,424 SF
Tenancy Multiple
Building Class C
Zoning B-1

30 Transit Score

50 Walk Score

1 Space Available

Name

Space Use

Size

Rent

Details

1st Floor Ste

Medical Office

8,541 SF

$8.00 USD/SF/YR

Entire building, offered as a shell. The main floor is ±8,541 SF of usable area organized by the existing masonry structure into three bays of 2,545, 3,147 and 2,849 SF — so the space divides into two or three tenancies without new structure, or runs as one 8,541 SF room. Interior columns are 18? x 18? on a roughly 21–24 ft grid with double steel lintel headers overhead, which is what lets the non-bearing walls come out cleanly.

A lower level adds ±1,833 SF of usable area at 10'-0? clear, reached by its own exterior access well as well as from inside. Because it has an independent entrance it can carry a second business, a production or prep function, or back-of-house for the main floor without routing through the tenant above. The remainder of the sub-floor is crawl space.

Delivery is as-is shell: no partitions, no workstations, no reception, no kitchen, and no usable fixtures — environmental remediation removes every non-structural surface down to the masonry, concrete deck and slab. A tenant is buying the envelope, the structure and the zoning, and designing everything inside it. Build-out is negotiated and priced separately.

Architect as-built drawings of both levels are available, as is a 2018 Glavé & Holmes Architecture rehabilitation study prepared for the Hopewell Downtown Partnership showing two worked-out business-and-kitchen-incubator layouts, including a service lift and a kitchen exhaust location.

Date available: Jan 2027
Lease term: Negotiable
Service type: Modified Gross
Space Type: Relet

Description

256 E. Cawson Street holds a full corner of downtown Hopewell — a single-story brick commercial building at E. Cawson and Hopewell Street, with two street frontages and a public alley at the rear.

The building measures 91'-8? by 100': approximately 9,167 SF gross on the main floor, of which ±8,541 SF is usable and already reads as three natural bays of 2,545, 3,147 and 2,849 SF. A lower level adds ±1,833 SF of usable area at 10'-0? clear with its own exterior entrance, so a second use or a production and service function can run beneath the main tenant without crossing it. Total usable area is approximately 11,000 SF. Construction is load-bearing masonry with 18? x 18? interior columns, double steel lintel headers and a concrete deck — a frame that carries its load and leaves a designer room to open walls.

The building last served as the City of Hopewell’s Department of Social Services. It is offered as-is; build-out is negotiated and priced separately. Architect as-built drawings of both levels, and a 2018 Glavé & Holmes Architecture rehabilitation study prepared for the Hopewell Downtown Partnership with two business-and-kitchen-incubator concepts, are available to a qualified prospect.

Ardent Properties and its principal hold an ownership interest in this property. The principal is a real estate licensee in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

                
                    Highlights
                
                                Main floor divides naturally into three bays of 2,545 / 3,147 / 2,849 SF
                            
                                 Corner building with two street frontages plus rear alley access
                            
                                B-1 Downtown Central Business District — the broadest by-right use list in Hopewell