Atlantic Park (Under Construction)

[mintscraft56]

21 hours ago, BFG said:

I don’t believe it. After 30 years, Virginia Beach is doing something with the Dome site. Now if only Norfolk could put an arena somewhere in the next three years, we’ll be in business. 

Oh boy, You put too much trust in us! 
Norfolk's arena project is up in the air and currently flying farther away. Our city seems to not undersand where they want to put it. Downtown? Military Circle? Who knows....Then all of a sudden, somehow a development up in henrico country seems to be limting us from over 100 miles away! 

Props to VB for getting its projects done. 

[vdogg]

I don’t think I truly had a feel for how massive this project was until today. After driving by the area I must say this is one of the most massive construction sites i’ve ever seen in HR. It will be absolutely transformative. If we can get the Capstone project off the ground the entire area will be unrecognizable.

[varider]

https://www.pilotonline.com/government/local/vp-nw-atlantic-park-budget-increase-0504-20230503-2ei23hp4trbddgh6asqm6ci5ra-story.html
 

Costs are rising for the Atlantic Park project again, and the City Council will consider shuffling millions of dollars around in Virginia Beach’s $2.5 billion proposed budget to pay for it.

[BFG]

The Pilot buried the lead; the money will come from the sports tourism fund, which makes sense given how well the Sports Center is doing. But it feels like they’re trying to stir the pot and rile up the usuals. 

[vdogg]

8 hours ago, BFG said:

The Pilot buried the lead; the money will come from the sports tourism fund, which makes sense given how well the Sports Center is doing. But it feels like they’re trying to stir the pot and rile up the usuals. 

That's exactly what they're doing. They're one of the biggest reasons we can't get anything major done around here. Big city newspaper with small town provincial mindset. Ignore them.

*At least we don't have to deal with Kerry Daugherty anymore...

[HRVA]

35 minutes ago, vdogg said:

*At least we don't have to deal with Kerry Daugherty anymore...

In case you are having withdrawals…

[vdogg]

3 hours ago, HRVA said:

In case you are having withdrawals…

No thanks. Life has been a lot more pleasant without having to read her diatribes. I'm just gonna leave her be... 

[baobabs727]

I was bummed that the Arena effort failed, surprised that the City had a contingency plan all ready to go, supportive of the VBSC but concerned about where any future arena would go after VBSC was completed (I emailed 4 councilpersons asking them, "after VBSC is built, where could a future (viable) arena be built?" and received only 1 response lol).  I was also critical of the "architecture," or lack thereof, of the VBSC, especially considering that freaking SOM designed the VBCC! UGH. Anyway, City Auditor has said that the VBSC lost almost $3M over the past 2 years. I'm sure there was spinoff to offset most or all of that red ink, but anyway.... City and the operator are are looking for ways to improve efficiency of operations and to figure out ways to program the Summer months with larger, more prominent events. Unfortunately,   VBSC has received  complaints from prospective event organizers that the Summer hotel rates are prohibitive and that  blocking off large groups of rooms is next to impossible.  So how do you fix those issues? Hmmm.  Perhaps you build a VBCC/VBSC hotel, off-strip, with 300 or more rooms?!?!?  Helloooooo Mayorrrrrr Dyerrrrr?!?! 

[BFG]

I saw a rumor on Twitter (grain of salt obviously) that an arena could become part of the Atlantic Park deal. Anyone know anything about that being even remotely true?

[vdogg]

13 minutes ago, BFG said:

I saw a rumor on Twitter (grain of salt obviously) that an arena could become part of the Atlantic Park deal. Anyone know anything about that being even remotely true?

Where? There's no space. I know one piece of land that will be demoed in the next few months but that's no where near big enough without incorporating surrounding properties. All the other cleared land is spoken for. No way that substation provides enough space without 1) condemning nearby properties and 2) reworking the street grid .

[KJHburg]

I saw this proposal for the Atlantic Park wave pool and entertainment center.  How much percentage is the city putting up for it or it is mostly private development?

I do believe this region needs a new arena somewhere.  

[HRVA]

48 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

I saw this proposal for the Atlantic Park wave pool and entertainment center.  How much percentage is the city putting up for it or it is mostly private development?

I do believe this region needs a new arena somewhere.  

$125 / $335 million (~37%) according to this article but I’m sure both of those numbers will move up. 

[KJHburg]

Actually drove by this today off Pacific large site.  

https://atlanticparkvb.com/

[NFKjeff]

Here is a pic. of prep work underway for this project taken today at 16th. and Baltic. 

I met a couple of friends at the Beyond Van Gogh exhibition, which was very good. We had lunch afterward at Barrel 17,  my Hawaiian burger was excellent. The weather was beautiful today and it felt like a mini-vacation for me.

[varider]

[vdogg]

5 hours ago, varider said:

They're going to need several of these eventually. Very large site.

[baobabs727]

On 4/21/2023 at 1:10 PM, vdogg said:

I don’t think I truly had a feel for how massive this project was until today. After driving by the area I must say this is one of the most massive construction sites i’ve ever seen in HR. It will be absolutely transformative. If we can get the Capstone project off the ground the entire area will be unrecognizable.

All True. Now, if we could only get something done like they're getting done in Richmond...to the tune of 2.4 BILLION DOLLARS! Then, and only then, will I believe that we have "arrived." Our largest development (VBTC) is slightly less than 1/4 of that sum. 

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/diamond-district-deal-approved-largest-development-project-in-city-history/

 

[HRVA]

Progress shot from Hanbury:

[BFG]

Short video I shot at the construction site. I didn’t realize just how massive this project will be!

352172122_MyMovie32.mov

EDIT: Here's a Youtube link so you don't have to download that file. 

 

Edited September 7, 2023 by BFG
Added a Youtube link

[varider]

 

[HRVA]

Drone footage from WM Jordan of the site:
https://fb.watch/osDOfCUp3n/?mibextid=N7dtgh

Edited November 21, 2023 by HRVA

[NFKjeff]

Here are some ground perspectives pics I took a couple of hours ago.

[Gexckos]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C17jC3xOTtA/

[BFG]

This looks amazing. If I didn't know any better I'd swear it was somewhere like Miami or Cali. More of this type of development, please.

[vdogg]

On 1/12/2024 at 5:38 PM, Gexckos said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C17jC3xOTtA/

I’ll let this stand for now, but for future reference link only posts are not allowed. Please be sure to post a short description or excerpt from the link next time.