The Virginia Department of Transportation still plans to sell its nearly 87-acre North Main Street facility, but the state agency doesn’t expect that to happen until at least 2022.

About a year ago, VDOT moved its Hampton Roads District headquarters from downtown to an 85,000-square-foot, three-story building in North Suffolk, with about 250 of its employees making the move to the Lakeview Technology Center 2 site at 7511 Burbage Drive in Harbour View.

And though VDOT called its North Main Street site “a hodgepodge of scattered buildings and trailers that can no longer accommodate district needs,” it still has people working there. Those people will continue to do so, even though it announced at the time that the location would be sold.

Holly Christopher, VDOT communications manager for the Hampton Roads District, said about 150 of its employees currently work at the North Main Street site. Those employees include those working in materials, installation and maintenance, inventory, bridge inspections and district crew, traffic operations, survey and the shop.

“We are working with the city of Suffolk to identify alternate locations for these operations,” Christopher said, “and expect to relocate in the next three to four years.”

Shop facilities were not able to relocate to the Burbage Drive location due to city zoning regulations.

The VDOT property on North Main Street is valued at $16.4 million, according to online property records. Surrounding the property are the Nansemond River, Barton Ford and Obici Place, where the Suffolk Economic Development Authority entered into a sales agreement with Cinema Café earlier this year for the company to build a movie theater, restaurant and bar on the former Obici Hospital site at 1900 N. Main St.

Construction on the movie theater is not expected to begin before summer 2021. Already at Obici Place are an Aldi grocery store, Chartway Federal Credit Union, Dunkin Donuts, the soon-to-open Jersey Mike’s Subs and the Meridian Obici apartments.