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GRTC Transit, in search of a permanent transfer plaza and hub in and around the central business district for two decades, has made an unsolicited offer of $1.4 million for nine city-owned parcels at West Grace and North Adams streets that together encompass about two-thirds of an acre.

David Green, GRTC’s chief executive officer, made the offer in a letter to the city dated Oct. 21, according to a memo sent last week to Mayor Dwight C. Jones and City Council members by Selena Cuffee-Glenn, the city’s chief administrative officer.

“The intent of the letter is to start the process of assembling the following properties for the expressed use of an estimated five-story transit hub that will provide up to 12 bus bays for GRTC’s fixed-route bus system and a parking structure of no more than 350 parking spaces,” Cuffee-Glenn wrote.

The nine properties, currently used as parking lots, are near Richmond police headquarters, Quirk Hotel and the 100 block of West Broad Street and are assessed at $1,026,000. They are 120, 118, 114 and 100 W. Grace St., as well as 210, 212, 214, 216 and 218 N. Adams St.

The Department of Economic and Community Development will provide a recommendation on the offer to Cuffee-Glenn’s office “at a future date,” she wrote.