For the second time this year, a stalled subdivision in Carrollton has changed hands.

Isle of Wight County Circuit Court records show the September sale of just under 23 acres, formerly owned by attorney Archer Jones, to Kirbor at Archers Meade LLC for $2.8 million.

The buyer is a subsidiary of Virginia Beach-based Kirbor Homes, which is developing subdivisions in Chesapeake, Suffolk, Williamsburg, Virginia Beach and in Elizabeth City and Moyock, North Carolina.

County supervisors rezoned the land in 2014 to allow for the construction of Archer’s Meade, which was then proposed as 70 single-family homes and up to 20,000 square feet of commercial space. The supervisors had, in 2011, rejected a previous plan by Jones for 76 condominium units, according to past reporting by the Smithfield Times. In 2019, the supervisors granted zoning and comprehensive plan amendments to Jones and co-applicant W.C. Sawyer reducing the number of proposed homes to the current 63 to reduce wetland impacts.

But the development has yet to break ground. It’s located at Carrollton Boulevard and Channell Way, adjacent to the under-construction Crossings at Bartlett Station development, which is approved for up to 240 condominium units, 52 single-family homes and a commercial phase anchored by a Publix grocery store that’s on track to open by the end of this year.

Jones, asked when Archer’s Meade would break ground, deferred to Kirbor, which did not immediately respond to the Times’ inquiry.

According to the Times’ past reporting, Archer’s Meade was projected as of 2014 to generate 27 school-age children and bring 175 new residents in total to the county, as well as 1,168 new vehicular trips at the intersection of Channell Way and Carrollton Boulevard. A 2023 study by Ohio-based Cooperative Strategies for Isle of Wight County Schools estimated the 2019 reduction in density would equate to 22 additional students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

The projected increase in traffic, which a 2019 community impact statement for Archer’s Meade estimated would be largely unaffected by the minor reduction in the number of houses, would equate to a 7.7% increase over the 15,000 vehicular trips Carrollton Boulevard saw in 2022 at its intersection with Channell Way, according to Virginia Department of Transportation data.

Archer’s Meade isn’t the only stalled development to change ownership this year. In May, Charlottesville-based Greenwood Homes spent $3.5 million to purchase the 179-home St. Luke’s Village subdivision from its former developer, Lewis McMurran of Newport News. St. Luke’s Village, located less than a quarter-mile from its namesake 17th century Historic St. Luke’s Church & Museum, has been dormant since the 2005 rezoning of the former Smithfield Downs golf course on Brewers Neck Boulevard in Carrollton that shuttered in 2006. Greenwood has proposed expanding the development to 315 units, though supervisors have yet to approve the expansion.