If you searched for meal prep in Richmond and landed on a Project LeanNation page that lists the address as Short Pump, you have not been sent to the wrong place. Short Pump is not a different town from Richmond — it is the part of Richmond most people mean when they picture the west side of town, and it happens to sit in a different county line than the city itself.
Here is the actual geography, so the map makes sense before you decide whether to drive there or have it delivered.
Is Short Pump part of Richmond?
Short Pump is a census-designated place inside Henrico County, Virginia — not inside the city limits of Richmond, and not a separate town with its own identity apart from Richmond. Wikipedia and Henrico County's own government site both describe it as an unincorporated community that has become part of Richmond's Far West End, sometimes called an edge city of Richmond because of how much retail and business has grown up around it.
In plain terms: Richmond the city and Henrico the county are two different local governments sharing one metro area, the way a lot of American cities work. Short Pump grew up on the Henrico side of that line, about 11 miles from downtown Richmond, but nobody who lives there thinks of themselves as living somewhere other than Richmond. Google Maps just isn't being colloquial about it — it is being accurate about which county your address sits in.
Where exactly is Project LeanNation's Richmond-area store?
Project LeanNation's store for the Richmond metro is at 3442 Lauderdale Dr, Henrico, VA 23233, in the Short Pump commercial district along the West Broad Street corridor. It is open Monday through Friday 9am–6pm and Saturday and Sunday 8am–2pm.
That is the one Project LeanNation location serving the whole Richmond area right now — not a Richmond store and a separate Short Pump store. If you searched for either name, you found the same place.
Why do Richmond searches point to an address in Henrico?
Because that is genuinely where the nearest Project LeanNation kitchen and pickup counter are. Short Pump Town Center and the retail corridor around it opened in 2003 and pulled a lot of west-side Richmond commerce out to that stretch of Broad Street, which is exactly why a business serving the Richmond area would locate there rather than downtown — it is closer to where the western half of the metro actually shops.
The practical effect for you is that "Richmond" and "Short Pump" are the same errand. If your normal frame of reference is downtown, the Fan, or Southside, the store is a real drive across town rather than around the corner. If you already shop or work anywhere along West Broad Street toward Glen Allen, it is close.
Does "Short Pump" mean the store is far from the rest of Richmond?
It depends which part of Richmond you mean, and this is the honest answer rather than a reassuring one. Straight-line, Short Pump sits about 11 miles from downtown Richmond. For pickup, that is a real drive if you work downtown and a short one if you are anywhere in the West End, Glen Allen, or western Henrico already.
For local delivery, distance from the store is exactly what determines whether an address qualifies, which is why the honest way to answer "does this reach me" is to check the actual address rather than guess from the name on the map.
What is Project LeanNation, specifically?
Project LeanNation is a nutrition retail business built around a membership rather than one-off orders: chef-prepared, macro-tracked meals, paired with one-on-one coaching and an InBody body-composition scan, sold through a local store rather than shipped from a national warehouse. The Short Pump location is that store for the Richmond metro — the meals are the visible part, and the coaching and scans are what make the plan fit an individual rather than an average.
Knowing the geography doesn't change any of that. It just means you now know where you're actually going.
See Project LeanNation's Richmond-area store and delivery coverage, or book a no-commitment consultation at the Short Pump store.
