Virginia Beach Development

[HRVT]

8 hours ago, baobabs727 said:

Perhaps he meant pots of gold…at the end of rainbows?  Or leprechauns? 

Don't be silly, pots of gold don't exist.

But leprechauns.... those are real!

[Urbanlooker]

https://pilotonline.com/business/jobs/green-battery-maker-to-buy-owl-s-creek-golf-course/article_b8d16899-46a4-56db-870e-16180ac4e67c.html

Council approved the "green" battery factory. It will get 1.8m from the city in incentives and possibly up to another 10m from state and federal. 

[urbanvb]

The old Kmart on Constitution is beginning to come done. If memory serves me correctly the new owner was interested in a mixed use development  so hopefully this should be interesting. 

Edited February 6, 2018 by urbanvb

[HRVA]

6 hours ago, urbanvb said:

The old Kmart on Constitution is beginning to come done. If memory serves me correctly the new owner was interested in a mixed use development  so hopefully this should be interesting. 

There was a preliminary concept plan last year titled "Floor & Decor Development", which I suspect is the name of the store that will at least partially occupy the space. 

https://www.flooranddecor.com/

I believe what you are thinking about is the article about the Buffalo Wild Wing opening and the landlord there speculating (the Pilot should not have printed that IMO). 

https://pilotonline.com/business/consumer/virginia-beach-is-getting-a-buffalo-wild-wings-near-town/article_c259a187-3d29-59bd-aff9-d7a65cf151f2.html

The Kmart shopping center is owned by B V Associates out of Greensboro, NC, since 1985. 

[baobabs727]

https://pilotonline.com/business/consumer/article_a2b11544-277d-11e8-b568-c7c645902269.html

comfirmed

[vdogg]

Yaaayyy!!!! 

[Up2313]

Lol that's so Virginia Beach, developer says that he's interested in mixed use. Then allows in a flooring store. 

I can't see a flooring store doing well there, when you factor in the potential rent. 

[HRVA]

29 minutes ago, Up2313 said:

Lol that's so Virginia Beach, developer says that he's interested in mixed use. Then allows in a flooring store. 

I can't see a flooring store doing well there, when you factor in the potential rent. 

Except the landlord never said anything about redevelopment. 

[Up2313]

True, I do remember reading that article though and it giving the impression that something more was being planned. 

[urbanlife]

21 hours ago, baobabs727 said:

https://pilotonline.com/business/consumer/article_a2b11544-277d-11e8-b568-c7c645902269.html

comfirmed

So the exact opposite of being an urban center.....so what was the point of the masterplan study again?

[Urbanlooker]

What the new city hall could look like ... more of the same but wait bigger. 

https://pilotonline.com/news/government/local/article_697a2658-3f29-11e8-9ca5-f7e9be6e52ef.html

[urbanvb]

Personally, I don’t care for this at all. I find the original building to look more traditional and colonial. This rendering looks like a super stretched version. 

[Virginia City]

City Hall should be in Town Center.

[BFG]

It’s kinda generic, but fits the architecture of that complex. I do agree that Town Center makes more sense. 

[vdogg]

Yuck. You'd think it's 1718, not 2018. 

[urbanlife]

Wow, that looks really bad. It looks like a generic office park building that is pretending to be historical.  What is even more laughable is the article about the City government complex becoming a new town center hub because it could include a string of generic apartment buildings in one spot. A handful of apartments and a bunch of generic city government buildings will not make that area a hub of anything beyond a government office park.

[baobabs727]

ugly

[Urbanlooker]

Another data center is coming to VB. ACA International is moving it's headquartere from Northern NA to the Beach and has plans for future cables landing in VB.

https://pilotonline.com/inside-business/news/technology/article_927f61f8-432f-11e8-ad33-b7ae57b67412.html

Maybe it's time to start a data center's thread?

Edited April 18, 2018 by Urbanlooker

[urbanvb]

That's great news! Word is spreading about the high speed cables. 

I noticed today some activity on some land on Princess Anne just before the courthouse area. Is this the biomedical center going up? 

[HRVA]

CBN/Regent have a couple projects in the works.

First up is a proposal to build apartments at Indian River/Centerville:  C09-007483-PM Founders Village Subdivision.  As part of the Founders Inn parcel, it is zoned H-1 and will require rezoning.

Second is an Athletic Center for Regent:  Record 2018-DSC-007055.  It will be located just north of the Jake Sears/Centerville intersection.  Pilot mentioned it last year:  Regent University has a burgeoning athletic program. Who knew?

[BFG]

Last night, I saw a player from my old high school (Indian River) signed to play basketball with Regent. I was a bit confused, because I didn’t know they had any sports, not even intramurals. This explains everything. 

[Urbanlooker]

1 hour ago, NFKjeff said:

There was an article in today’s Pilot-online about this.  ACA is moving it’s HQ to Virginia Beach and building a new cable landing center for a proposed third underwater high speed data cable  The first two cables are connecting to Spain, and Brazil, and this one will connect to South Africa.

I believe this is the article you mentioned.

https://pilotonline.com/business/jobs/article_93a858aa-52cf-11e8-b6a2-23442a91b231.html

[urbanvb]

This first article stated the data center will create 30 jobs but the 2nd one says the company could bring 200 jobs here. This fantastic and the kind of high tech jobs that we need.

Edited May 9, 2018 by urbanvb

[carolinaboy]

Nice get for VB. Congratulations.

[Urbanlooker]

12 hours ago, urbanvb said:

This first article stated the data center will create 30 jobs but the 2nd one says the company could bring 200 jobs here.

So I think the 200 is the total number where as the 30 refers to the number of jobs they are adding with the expansion/new data center.