What Is White Oak Technology Park in Henrico? History, Occupants, Power, and What’s Left

White Oak Technology Park Henrico is a publicly developed, master-planned industrial park at the I-64 / I-295 interchange in the Sandston area of eastern Henrico County. It opened in 1996 to attract advanced manufacturing, landed a semiconductor plant, and has since become one of Virginia’s major data center hubs, with QTS and Meta as its largest landowners.

For most warehouse and manufacturing users, the practical takeaway is that very little open land is left inside the park, and what remains is being priced and planned with data centers in mind. The better industrial options are often in the parks around it. This post is part of our Henrico industrial and warehouse space guide, which covers the wider market.

How did White Oak Technology Park get started?

Henrico County built the park in the mid-1990s, investing $44 million in infrastructure, according to a history written by Henrico County Economic Development staff and republished by InterGlobix Magazine. The anchor came in 1998: White Oak Semiconductor, a memory-chip plant that through corporate transactions became Qimonda. Per the Greater Richmond Partnership, the plant employed 1,500 people.

Qimonda closed the plant in February 2009, leaving a vacant 1.3 million-square-foot facility on 212 acres. In 2010, Quality Technology Services (QTS) bought the buildings and land and converted them to data center use. That purchase set the park’s direction for the next fifteen years.

How big is White Oak Technology Park?

You will see several different acreage figures, and they are not all measuring the same thing:

I could not find a current official acreage published by the Henrico EDA, so treat 2,270 acres as the best-documented figure for the original park. Don’t add the park and the 622-acre White Oak Technology Park II together: the second is a separate, privately owned site nearby, not part of the original park.

Who are the major occupants?

• QTS: now the park’s largest landowner. Beyond the former Qimonda campus, QTS bought the 622-acre White Oak Technology Park II for about $137 million in 2024, per Virginia Business, and a separate entity signed by its CEO bought LL Flooring’s 995,792-square-foot distribution center on 97.55 acres at 6115 Technology Creek Drive for $104.75 million the same year. Richmond BizSense reported in May 2026 that QTS has more than 3 million square feet built at White Oak and is pursuing up to 17 more data center buildings across two expansion campuses totaling about 1,100 acres.
• Meta: by late 2022 it owned just over 800 acres in the park, including a 2.4 million-square-foot data center campus at 6200 and 7301 Technology Boulevard, per Richmond BizSense.
• Bank of America: operates a data center adjacent to the Iron Mountain parcel.
• Iron Mountain: bought 66 acres at 6110 Technology Creek Drive from the Henrico EDA for just over $8 million in November 2024. BizSense noted the parcel had been marketed since the park opened.

Manufacturing is now a small part of the story. The park was planned around chip fabrication, and LL Flooring’s building was its big distribution user, but that building has since passed to a data center owner.

What utilities and power does White Oak have?

Infrastructure is the park’s main selling point. As described by Henrico economic development staff:

• Power: a networked, dual-feed 230kV transmission system from Dominion Energy with multiple distribution substations and a 34.5kV circuit.
• Water: 10 MGD (million gallons per day) firm capacity, with an additional 6 MGD stored on site, drawing on the James River.
• Sewer: a pumping station with 13 MGD capacity and redundant feeds from two separate lines.
• Access: direct access to I-64 and I-295, with Richmond International Airport nearby.

Those figures date to 2019. Data center growth since then means spare capacity on a specific parcel is a question for Dominion Energy and Henrico Public Utilities, not something to assume from a brochure.

Are there sites left in White Oak Technology Park?

Very few. In May 2025, Richmond BizSense reported that QTS and Meta owned about 90% of the undeveloped land in the proposed 3,000-acre overlay area. The Henrico EDA’s featured industrial properties list shows the 13.66-acre Elko Tract inside the park (zoned M-2, with heavy electrical capacity) and a 51-acre White Oak Industrial site adjacent to it (zoned M-1).

Zoning also changed. In June 2025, Henrico’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to end by-right approval for data centers countywide, including in White Oak, per Richmond BizSense. New data centers now need a provisional-use permit and a public hearing, and the required buffer from residential property lines went from 200 feet to 500 feet. Confirm current rules with Henrico County Planning before you rely on them.

What does White Oak mean for industrial users and nearby property?

A few practical effects for eastern Henrico:

1. 1Land competition. Data center buyers can pay more for powered land than a warehouse developer can justify, which pushes industrial development to the parks around White Oak.
2. 2New warehouse supply is nearby, not inside. Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer’s Q2 2026 pipeline lists Lingerfelt’s speculative White Oak Distribution Center (373,360 SF, expected Q4 2026) in the Airport submarket, where vacancy was 1.2% in the Southeast quadrant.
3. 3Power is contested. Heavy manufacturing or cold storage users should confirm service timelines with Dominion early, since the park’s data centers are among the largest power users in the region.
4. 4Neighbors are pushing back. At a May 2026 community meeting, Varina residents raised concerns about QTS’s expansion plans, from generator emissions to noise and water use, per WTVR. Owners of residential-adjacent land should expect data center proposals to be contested at hearings.
5. 5The tax base is large. Henrico funds an Affordable Housing Trust Fund partly with data center tax revenue, per VPM, which helps explain why the county still courts the industry while tightening its rules.

For a comparable publicly driven park south of the river, see our post on Meadowville Technology Park industrial sites. For the broader eastern Henrico warehouse picture, go back to the Henrico industrial guide.

Need help sorting out eastern Henrico sites?

If you are weighing a site in or near White Oak, I can help you compare parcels, zoning, and utility questions before you commit to due diligence. See how I work with occupiers and owners on the services page, or get in touch.