Editing Bon Air, Virginia (section)

=== 1970s - present: Additional Suburbanization and Historic Preservation of Bon Air===
When [[Chippenham Parkway]] was built, construction severed the old Warwick Road route in the mid-1960s when it was built between present-day Jahnke Road and [[Midlothian Turnpike]].

As Bon Air became increasingly [[suburbanization|suburbanized]], Mary Anne Claflin published a 144-page book documenting Bon Air called ''Bon Air: A History'' in 1977,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Bon-Air-Mary-Anne-Claflin/dp/B0006WOP0S|title = Bon Air: A History|date = January 1977|publisher = Hale Publications}}</ref> the Bon Air Historical Society was founded in 1978, and in 1988 the society assisted in generating an application for the Bon Air Historic District submitted to the National Register of Historic Places.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/VLR_to_transfer/PDFNoms/020-5084_Bon_Air_Historic_District_1988_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=United States Department of Interior - National Park Service}}</ref>

In 1987, the traffic patterns changed when the Powhite Parkway Extension cut across southern Bon Air from Chippenham Parkway to Jahnke Road on Midlothian Turnpike. Further, when the [[Willey Bridge]] opened in 1988 near Bon Air, [[Southside, Richmond Virginia|Southsiders]] had significantly improved ability to access the West End of Richmond. In 1985, the [[Stony Point Shopping Center]] opened, anchored by a [[Ukrops]] store.  The 1990s, ''' Arboretum ''' and ''' The Boulders ''' [[office park]] developments popped up south of Bon Air, and the '''Shoppes at Bellgrade''' (northwest of Bon Air) opened in 1990. The [[Stony Point Fashion Park]] opened in 2004, which competed with other retail centers and malls (Chesterfield Town Center and Cloverleaf Mall) nearby to Bon Air.