At 12646 Stone Village Way, in the Wegmans-anchored Stonehenge Village, the sign over the door has changed twice since 2019. What happens inside has stayed the same. The space opened as a Growler USA pub, became 101 Crafthouse, closed in 2025 after about five years, and is now being built out as Barrel House, another pub built around beer. Richmond BizSense opened its report on the lease with this line: "One beer-focused pub is picking up where another left off."
The rest of the corridor is changing the same way this fall. For anyone in Roxshire, the news at the east end of Robious Road, where it meets Midlothian Turnpike and Huguenot Road, is not new buildings. It is new tenants in familiar storefronts. A video game shop that spent years as pop-ups has a permanent counter in Robious Hall. A former biscuit restaurant on Huguenot Road is turning into a hot chicken spot. Meanwhile the one stretch of riverside trail many people think of as part of their routine at Robious Landing Park is still closed.
A Business That Outgrew Its Pop-Ups Lands in Robious Hall
Retro Room is the first of the three to reach opening day. Owners Luke and Nicole Baab set October 17 as the official opening of their 1,050-square-foot shop in the Robious Hall Shopping Center at 10060 Robious Road, close to where Robious Road meets Midlothian Turnpike.
The shop is new, but the business behind it has been around for years. Luke started Retro Room in 2018 as a subscription service that mailed boxes of hand-picked video games. Around 2022 it moved to pop-ups and swap meets, many of them at local breweries, according to Richmond BizSense. That makes Robious Hall the business's third form and its first permanent one.
The shelves run from the 1980s to now. The store buys, sells and trades pre-owned and vintage games, from NES and Nintendo 64 titles through Xbox One and PlayStation 5, and also carries consoles, merchandise and Pokémon cards. The couple picked this part of the county on purpose. Nicole Baab explained the choice to BizSense:
"We both felt that the Midlothian and North Chesterfield area was a little bit underserved as it pertained to video games."
Some details for a first visit:
- Days open: Wednesday through Sunday. The shop lists current clock hours at retroroomrva.com/hours.
- For families: Macaroni KID Richmond reports that the stock includes starter consoles for families buying a first system, laid out for easy browsing.
- Shopping online: Online inventory is planned for the website but isn't there yet. For now, the shop itself is where to see what's in stock.
- Trade-ins: Since it's a buy-sell-trade shop, the old consoles in a Roxshire basement have somewhere local to go.
The Baabs also told Macaroni KID they plan to support local schools and youth programs.
The Stonehenge Village Pub Gets Its Third Name
Back at Stone Village Way, the new tenant is a chain new to Virginia. Barrel House was founded in Iowa in 2011. The Midlothian restaurant will be its eighth location and its first in the Richmond area. Most of the others are in Iowa, with more in Illinois and in Frisco, Texas.
The local owners are franchisees Rajbans Joshi, Satish Mishra, Pooja Malu and Vakul Goel. They are leasing the roughly 2,900-square-foot former 101 Crafthouse space, and BizSense reported that Joshi expects a staff of about 20. The menu is pub food: burgers, sandwiches, tacos, pizzas and salads, plus Midwestern cheese curds. The draft list is the headline, with more than 100 beers on tap, and Joshi said that leaves room to feature local Virginia brewers.
Joshi described the atmosphere to Richmond BizSense in practical terms. He said the group liked that "the music wasn't very loud," compared with sports bars that are "either it's very loud or it's very dull."
Timing is the open question. In the August report, the franchisees said they hoped to open in November or December. That is still a target, not a date. The chain's own locations page still says "Coming Soon — Summer 2026" for this restaurant, so the BizSense window is the more recent estimate. The franchise agreement lets the group open more Barrel House locations around Richmond, and Joshi told BizSense they hope to.
On Huguenot Road, a Chicken Restaurant Takes Over a Biscuit Restaurant's Space
The third change is a short drive away at 2061 Huguenot Road, Suite A, the former Maple Street Biscuit Company space. In late August, Nash & Smashed signed a lease for about 2,600 square feet there for its Nashville-style hot chicken and hand-smashed burgers. Its neighbors in the center will be The Hot Yoga Barre and Fusion Bowl. Richmond BizSense's October 6 restaurant roundup also covered the signing.
No opening date has been announced. For a taste before then, the brand's locations page lists an open restaurant in Glen Allen at 10174 W. Broad St.
Where Things Stand on Opening Week
Each of the three is at a different stage, which is the most useful way to keep them straight:
- Retro Room, Robious Hall, 10060 Robious Road. Opening set for October 17, Wednesday through Sunday.
- Barrel House, Stonehenge Village, 12646 Stone Village Way. Franchisees hoping for November or December.
- Nash & Smashed, 2061 Huguenot Road, Suite A. Lease signed August 31, no opening date yet.
The One Change at Robious Landing That Isn't a Reopening
The corridor's storefronts are filling up again. Its best-known riverfront path is not. Chesterfield County's Robious Landing Park page says erosion from heavy rain and a high river level washed out a section of the trail along the James River. That section is "closed indefinitely until it can be re-vegetated."
The closure has lasted a while. 12 On Your Side reported it in July 2025, and the county page still carries the same notice this fall. Anyone planning a fall walk along the river from Robious Landing should expect that section to be closed for more than a season.
The rest of the 102-acre park is open as usual. It has 3.4 miles of trails, a canoe and kayak slide, a floating dock, fishing, a playground, picnic shelters and sand volleyball. The park is also on the Virginia DWR Bird and Wildlife Trail, which makes the open inland loops a good place to watch birds after the leaves drop.
A Late-November Errand Nearby
For a Saturday that pairs a stop at Retro Room with something seasonal, Bon Air Library's November calendar lists Victorian Holiday Ornament Decorating on November 28, with sessions at 11 a.m. and noon. Details are on the Chesterfield County Public Library events calendar. By then Barrel House may be in its hoped-for opening window, and the Huguenot Road space may have a date of its own.
At Team Hensley, we follow the Robious Road corridor the way our Roxshire neighbors do, one storefront at a time. If you want to talk about how new openings like these fit into life along the corridor, our team is happy to help. Contact Us.
