Midlothian mixed-use project drags on

(RECAP: A decision on a much-scrutinized Midlothian mixed-use development won’t be made for at least another two months – nearly a year and a half since the project was first proposed. Blackwood Development’s proposed Winterfield Crossing project – a mix of 250 age-restricted apartments and 100,000 square feet of commercial space that would fill 25 acres along Midlothian Turnpike – was deferred Tuesday night by the Chesterfield County Planning Commission, which will take the case up at its Oct. 18 meeting. The deferral is the latest of many for the $40 million project, which was first submitted to the county in May 2015. An earlier version of the project received the commission’s endorsement last November, but county supervisors sent the case back to the commission in January, citing “a significant amount of opposition and misinformation about the case in the community.”)