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Something big brewing from the Franklin Johnston group for the military highway light rail station. 236 apartment 302,000 square foot mixed use within walking distance of the station. They’re applying for a TOD certificate. This is on the December agenda.

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Yuck. Very suburban design, disappointed.

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tacky!

so who needs affordable housing? i thought millennials were so verrry coveted because they purportedly  have all this disposable income coming out there rears to spend everywhere? like at micro-breweries.

baby-boomers  & generation   X'ers who?  they who have  truly got the money, that's who!

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Norfolk Southern’s headquarters building in midtown Atlanta will be 750,000 sq ft! I’m furious, that should be our tower. This hurts, this is such a loss for our area it just makes me sick to my stomach. For scale, Dominion Tower is approximately 340,000 sq ft. You do the math...

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2018/12/04/in-bid-to-lure-norfolk-southern-hq-atlanta.html

The idea is that the railroad would build a 750,000-square foot office building on West Peachtree Street between Ponce De Leon Avenue and 3rd Street. That’s on the block just west of the Fox Theater and AT&T. It would be an investment of about $575 million.”

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12 minutes ago, EJ_LEWIS said:

Once NS leaves what happens to their headquarters building.  I pray it is not torn down and will be bought by some developer. 

They already have one small tenant on one floor. I expect they will either try to lease it themselves and sell it once it’s leased up or sell it cheaply to some one that will do the same. I doubt Buddy Gadams will convert this one into more apartments. 

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On ‎12‎/‎26‎/‎2018 at 2:23 PM, 23320 said:

New year will bring major redevelopment to Ocean View - Inside Business

This article includes a summary of proposed developments in Ocean View. A lot of redevelopment for new housing and repurposing of existing buildings for new uses. 

Probably a bunch of suburban developments

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“One of the problems we have in Ocean View is we have a lot of water and not people, so bringing right-sized density,” is key, said Smigiel, who represents the city’s Ward 5. “You don’t want to overdevelop – but we still need the bodies there to bring the income so we can support some additional retail.”

Hopefully this means more height. Taller buildings that don't take up as much land, but still have retail on the ground floor. There's a lot of potential with OV.

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So this crossed my IG timeline this morning. Apparently, there's rumblings about a plan in place to create one large entity called "Greater Norfolk". According to the page (and a couple of people in the comments), Hampton, Newport News, and Portsmouth are interested, but there needs to be interest from the other three cities. Anyone heard anything about this rumor?

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Well...13 News says there’s no truth to it. At  least nothing that anyone from the cities would confirm. Doesn’t mean much one way or another, and the info from interviews seemed vague, but it sounds more rumor than anything. 

https://www.13newsnow.com/mobile/video/news/local/verify/verify-is-hampton-roads-changing-its-name-to-greater-norfolk-area/291-c8c3a338-6d41-4e28-858c-99b070d4b842

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Something crossed my mind. I'm willing to take the city reps' word for it and put this to rest, esp. since more than one person said they have no knowledge of this. That said (puts on tinfoil hat), I'm wondering whether the people they asked would even be privy to that level of info, considering this is more than your average community project. Who wants to admit that an Instagram post scooped what would become one of the biggest developments of the last 50 years?

Again, I'm willing to let it go (kinda), but I'm still keeping an eye on any rumors after this. Channel 13 didn't really drop any earth-shattering details here.

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There are A LOT of high rises proposed or under construction in Norfolk right now. Here’s hoping that this building boom isn’t truncated by the economy like the last one was. River Tower, Gateway, 3 casino towers, African Museum Tower.  That 6 buildings over 20 floors, then you have the 10-15 floor CHKD and EVMS towers. We’re talking significant additions to the skyline if we can push these over the finish line.

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