Summit Pointe (Under Construction)

[HRVA]

Dollar Tree has moved into the new building & is using the parking garage.  They are supposed to do a renovation of the 'old' space and have begun tearing up the parking lot along Volvo to finish the site work for that block.  I've heard they will break ground on the apartments & retail surrounding the garage by the end of the year but haven't seen any activity yet.

[HRVA]

Dollar Tree moves into headquarters as sales numbers continue upward - Inside Business

The article states 210 employees will be moving from the Family Dollar HQ & 700 new positions will be filled locally. 

Edited December 12, 2018 by 23320

[Virginia City]

Too bad they didn't wait to build this since there will be a large green empty building in Downtown soon they could have filled.

[vdogg]

On 12/14/2018 at 3:27 AM, Virginia City said:

Too bad they didn't wait to build this since there will be a large green empty building in Downtown soon they could have filled.

Nah, I’d much rather have them build new and create a new urban center for Chesapeake. NS Tower will be filled soon enough.

[Virginia City]

Chesapeake doesn't need an urban center. Not every city does. Chesapeake is perfectly fine as a suburb. I would like Dollar Tree, Smithfield Foods, Maersk, Stihl all to have a Downtown presence. It is not just Downtown Norfolk, it's Downtown Hampton Roads.

[HRVA]

Chesapeake didn’t need and wasn’t really asking for this. This is all DT wanting to cash in on their excess land IMO. The city went along because they didn’t want to risk losing DT.  I agree that it would be better to cluster our large office employers Downtown. 

[urbanlife]

On 12/26/2018 at 12:48 PM, 23320 said:

Chesapeake didn’t need and wasn’t really asking for this. This is all DT wanting to cash in on their excess land IMO. The city went along because they didn’t want to risk losing DT.  I agree that it would be better to cluster our large office employers Downtown. 

The size of the Hampton Roads metro, clustering all large office employers to just downtown Norfolk is a horrible idea. Hampton Roads is a lot like the LA metro, it takes up a lot of land, consists of several cities, and each have their own urban center and employment hubs. It makes plenty of sense for Chesapeake to have an urban center downtown and what DT is doing makes a lot of sense for the city.

[HRVA]

PHASE TWO DEVELOPMENT IS UNDERWAY AT SUMMIT POINTE

Phase 2 is shown here between Pinnacle & Summit Pointe Drive. 

[BFG]

That looks stunning. Any chance we could get something like this in downtown Norfolk? 

Edited January 24, 2019 by BFG

[Cjnfkvb]

Looks good. The aria has great potential. 

[urbanvb]

Looks great! It’s good to see Chesapeake finally going vertical.

[vdogg]

Wow. That’s stunning. Looks like something you’d see in Arlington or Tyson’s Corner. This will look great from the freeway.

[HRVA]

Pile driving has taken place around the two sides of the parking garage where the apartments/retail are going to be built and is now ongoing at the office building site. 

[urbanlife]

Thanks for the updates about this. Hopefully surrounding sites will latch onto this and expand from it giving Chesapeake an actual urban district.

[HRVA]

The apartments/retail on the east side of the parking garage have started going vertical. Foundation work is ongoing on the other side of the garage and for the office building along Volvo. It has been a very active site over the past couple of weeks. 

[HRVA]

This plan provides a timeline for the next phases of the development. The next two blocks (in red) are planned to be built back to back following the current phase.

[Virginia City]

So is this a defacto Downtown for Chesapeake?

[vdogg]

6 hours ago, Virginia City said:

So is this a defacto Downtown for Chesapeake?

 Meh, Greenbrier is still the center of activity. It won’t really be at downtown until they can tie this area in Greenbrier together. 

[urbanlife]

9 hours ago, vdogg said:

 Meh, Greenbrier is still the center of activity. It won’t really be at downtown until they can tie this area in Greenbrier together. 

If this development eventually includes Liberty Executive Park and Towne Place at Greenbrier, I think it would be safe to call it a downtown for Chesapeake.

[vdogg]

Saw the tower for the first time at night yesterday and it looks spectacular. They really did a great job with the lighting.

[carolinaboy]

Construction photos from the webcam. August 15.

 

[Up2313]

This area is going be really cool. However, that long white wall which I think is the backside of the Dollar tree warehouse looks ugly and out of place. I hope they can build store fronts or break it up with some trees or something. 

[urbanlife]

3 hours ago, Up2313 said:

This area is going be really cool. However, that long white wall which I think is the backside of the Dollar tree warehouse looks ugly and out of place. I hope they can build store fronts or break it up with some trees or something. 

It is a shame the road wasn't shifted a little bit further away from the building to make it easier to build a storefronts building along it. 

[HRVA]

4 hours ago, Up2313 said:

This area is going be really cool. However, that long white wall which I think is the backside of the Dollar tree warehouse looks ugly and out of place. I hope they can build store fronts or break it up with some trees or something. 

The long term plan is to relocate the distribution center and develop the whole 69 acre site but that will be the last portion developed. They’ve said the entire project is expected to take 35 years. 

[urbanlife]

On 8/15/2019 at 4:34 PM, 23320 said:

The long term plan is to relocate the distribution center and develop the whole 69 acre site but that will be the last portion developed. They’ve said the entire project is expected to take 35 years. 

Wow, this really is going to become downtown Chesapeake