Bon Secours will need to clear one hurdle to build its new ambulatory-care campus as planned at the Watkins Centre in Chesterfield County. The nonprofit health system has applied for a zoning amendment to reduce the required roadway setbacks on the 16-acre site at the southwest corner of state Route 288 and Midlothian Turnpike. The $30 million development would create 100 local jobs, making it the county’s biggest economic-development project of the year.

Bon Secours is investing $30 million and bringing 100 new jobs to Chesterfield County, making for the largest economic-development announcement in the county this year. The nonprofit Catholic health system said yesterday that it is building an ambulatory-care campus at the southwest corner of state Route 288 and Midlothian Turnpike at the Watkins Centre, about 4.5 miles from Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center.

When John Watkins looks out across the wide open landscape that used to be his playground, he doesn’t see Westchester Commons, one of the largest retail developments in the Richmond area. The Republican state senator from Powhatan County points over a half-built row of retail stores.