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1 hour ago, lammius said:
I always thought Craney Island would be a good place for a larger regional airport. That, or a massive expansion of the "Hampton Roads executive airport" out toward Suffolk
Craney Island is too important to the Port of Virginia to ever develop it for anything else. Most of the material dredged from the Hampton Roads harbor goes to Craney Island until it is dried out and can be safely trucked away. Dredging is nearly a continuing operation to maintain the depth required for commercial shipping. Getting the regulatory permits to dispose of all that material offshore or anywhere else would eat up a lot of time and cost a ton of money.
https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/About/Projects/Craney-Island/
The Hampton Roads Executive Airport is adjacent to the Great Dismal Swamp. If an airplane taking off to toward the south had mechanical problems, it would have to make an emergency landing in the swamp. It would take forever to get rescue crews to the crash site.
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9 hours ago, urbanlife said:
This right here, it is odd to me that the entire Tide system is designed to only handle one car length trains rather than be designed to handle two or three car lengths. With designing a system that is just one car length, it would have made more sense to go with more streetcar style trains similar to the Portland Streetcar, and design a streetcar rail system that best fits Norfolk since it is probably just going to be a rail system for the city of Norfolk only. That way those trains could have been planned easier to run on old streetcar routes.
This before-and-after study of the Tide by the Federal Transit Administration from 2015 seems to imply on page 11 that the Tide was designed to handle two-car length trains, if needed. The platforms can be easily lengthened to accommodate two-car trains, except at MacArthur Mall and NSU, where any future lengthening of the platforms would be particularly disruptive. These two platforms were constructed as two-car platforms.
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On 10/31/2019 at 3:51 AM, vdogg said:
That land is immediately in front of Icon. It wouldn’t make sense to build tall there. I do find his statement about a large nor’easter being rare comical however. We get those storms every year.
I agree that nor'easters are fairly common, but not nor'easters that would flood Waterside Drive, let alone Main Street, which is even higher. I cannot recall Waterside Drive being closed due to flooding.
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On 10/30/2019 at 4:39 AM, Cjnfkvb said:
If there isnt enough questions answered, shouldn't somone be asking those questions, rather than conplaining, and filling pointlessly redundant petitions.?Does anyone honestly think that city council will reconsider there vote for a small handful of signatures, in a city of many thousands of people?
They have been asking the questions. Here are some of the questions:
- What will the economic impact be on current downtown restaurants, hotels and entertainment establishments? People visiting the casino are not likely to leave the casino to visit other downtown restaurants or hotels.
- The casino will pay no taxes on meals/beverages, spa services, lodging or entertainment, only on the net gaming receipts. Does this give the casino an unfair advantage over other restaurants and hotels?
- The city is funding an economic impact study to consider the additional taxes from a new downtown arena to replace Scope. What negative impact will the casino have on a future arena? Could it kill the chance of a new arena?
- The city hopes to attract $1 Billion in investment in the St. Paul’s Quadrant? How will the casino impact the development of St. Paul’s Quadrant?
- What does Norfolk State think about having a casino less than a mile from its campus?
- Many studies have shown that property values of houses in proximity to casinos decline as a result of a casino opening. Norfolk is investing $112 million in the Ohio Creek Basin to create the “coastal community of the future”. How will the casino affect Chesterfield Heights?
- Studies show that there is an increase in crime when casinos enter a neighborhood. It is likely that there will be a significant cost to police, fire and emergency services. What is this cost?
- Why has a risk assessment not been completed to understand the increased costs of public safety as a result of this casino?
- Has Norfolk’s public safety leadership weighed in on the effects of a casino on potential increase in public safety costs?
No, these are not my questions. This is a recap of some of the questions Councilwoman Andria McClellan posted on Facebook back in September. Her FB post was copied onto this site on September 22 .
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8 hours ago, baobabs727 said:
Well, I cannot see into the future, but the advent of any circumstances under which we would be buying back this particular plot of land ...in 50-100 years ...escapes me.
What about in three years, if the plans to build the casino fall through? What about in 20 years, if the casino does not make the huge money everyone is assuming it will produce, and the Pamunkey tribe decides to close the casino?
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I don't think we have heard the end from the Nansemond tribe. The Nansemond are prohibited by law from operating a casino, but I do not see them standing idly by while the Pamunkey tribe rakes in all this money. I can see the Nansemonds filing a lawsuit claiming the "tribal land" where the casino is to be built is more Nanesmond than Pamunkey, with the ultimate goal of forcing the Pamunkey tribe to share some of the casino profits with them.
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10 hours ago, Willy18 said:
Sounds way more expensive then just driving piles. We may end up with a 2-story retirement community
In the Hampton Roads market, driven precast piles are generally more economical than augercast piles, partly because we have local precasters to manufacture the piles - Bayshore Precast Concrete, with plants in Cape Charles (now closed) and Chesapeake. In other markets, like South Florida, many buildings are supported on augercast piles. The developers are probably paying a premium for augercast piles to reduce the noise and vibration of driven piles, but they are not likely to be way more expensive. River Tower is definitely not the first building in Norfolk to use augercast piles.
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On 4/19/2019 at 8:27 PM, BFG said:
I wonder what needs to be studied. To be able to fly out of ORF across the Atlantic seems like a no-brainer. Right now I think you have to go to DC.
To be able to offer international flights, they need ICE to agree to man a customs office for incoming flights. They also need a separate corridor to keep arriving passengers separated from the rest of the airport until they clear passport control and customs. The airlines need to know that the market it there, and will be there reliably for the long haul. It is not economically feasible to fly smaller jets across the Atlantic. They usually fly 767s or 777s. Can you fill that plane up once a week? Will Norfolk's runway support a plane that big?
I suspect the international flights the mayor is proposing are to the Caribbean, not Europe.
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1 hour ago, Diego Maradona said:
I'm curious to know exactly what evidence ANY ingenious tribe holds to make a case against another tribe's longevity in the 7 cities...
Also, Hi! I'm Diego!
As I read the article, when the Pamunkey tribe applied for federal recognition, they listed the areas where the tribe lived, farmed, and hunted. Apparently, according to the Nansemond tribe's letter, they did not list any areas in the 7 cities. It doesn't help that the previous chief of the Pamunkey tribe called the claim that Norfolk is ancestral Pamunkey land "a long stretch."
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On 6/2/2018 at 10:18 PM, vdogg said:
"Project officials said after bringing in a design firm and general contractor, the partners suggested ways to make the building more efficient. Those included decreasing the height and increasing the base, a spokesman said, adjustments that will allow the company to maintain the same square footage and about the same number of units."
I am curious about this statement. If they just recently brought in a design firm, who provided all those fancy renderings we saw three years ago?
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On 5/1/2018 at 11:22 PM, BFG said:
Last week, the city broke ground on new residential development in OV. The plan is to build 40 new homes.
https://pilotonline.com/pdf_6dd15b16-4a43-11e8-9d4f-97cfb650802b.html
Great to see development happening on that stretch of town. Hopefully, we see more in the next year...not just single-family homes, but condos/townhouses, apartments and some high-rises. OV has a lot of potential.
Speaking of high-rises, are there still height restrictions over there?
The new development in OV is nice, but I still hate to see those beautiful oak trees destroyed.
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8 hours ago, vdogg said:
Hmm...Well how’d we mess that up?
It may have been mentioned previously on this thread, but all of the posts prior to September, 2016 were accidentally deleted.
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55 minutes ago, Helium3 said:
That particular block marked for future development doesn't have any historic homes. It's a fairly suburban-looking apartment complex wrapped around a parking lot. It doesn't seem any older than maybe 2 or 3 decades old.
I helped to design those apartments back in the late 80s. It was EVMS student housing back then. I assume it still is.
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As radio commentator Paul Harvey used to say to introduce a news story, "Just what, not why." Here is an article from the Charlotte Observer about development there.
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article187087708.html
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According to this article, Newton's Creek (adjacent to Harbor Park) did not get any funding from the National Disaster Resilience Competition, but Ohio Creek, just east of Newton's Creek, received most of the $120 million awarded to Virginia to combat flooding due to sea-level rise.
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On 7/1/2017 at 1:55 AM, ntheo said:It was Granby & Freemason Streets. It is now part of TCC. The building is bricked up now, but it used to have plate glass windows wrap around Granby, Freemason and Monticello.
I was part of the design team that renovated the Woolworth's when TCC started its downtown campus. When I first went there, the lunch counter and stools were till in place near the corner at Freemason and Monticello. Before it was a Woolworth's, it was W.T. Grant Company. Before that, it was a YMCA. When I went into the basement, you could still see the swimming pool. It had white ceramic tile walls with numbers to indicate the pool depth.
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2 hours ago, urbanlife said:
I think at this point, it would be best for Norfolk to expand light rail throughout Norfolk. Hampton Roads doesn't function like a regional government that can expand light rail throughout the seven cities. So Norfolk shouldn't worry about if VB ever wants to have light rail. It would be more important for the city to expand it within their city limits and possibly work with neighboring cities, like Portsmouth, that might actually want to have access to light rail.
I don't think Norfolk can make light rail work without Virginia Beach. They can put all the tracks they want in Norfolk, but the bulk of the riders are in Virginia Beach. And people from Green Run or Great Neck or Sandbridge are not going to drive to Newtown Road to park their cars,and wait for the next train to take them to downtown or the navy base. If they have driven that far, they will stay in their cars another five or ten minutes to get to their destination.
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2 hours ago, blopp1234 said:
This seems like it would be the perfect place for a signature tower for Norfolk. Hope it is bigger than the renderings because it is such an iconic spot. Don't see why city council would be opposed to a tower there because there aren't many places in the area that will give residents such a view. Hopefully this starts some sort of a building boom near the riverfront because Norfolk has an amazing stretch of riverfront in that part of downtown.
Yes, it is an amazing stretch of river with a great view. Perhaps city council believes that such a great view should be available to all of the city, not just the few elite that could afford to live in a tower on the waterfront.
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According to Paragraph IV on Page 1, Waterside Live! has become the Waterside District. It has changed to "a marketplace and brew house concept rather than a live entertainment concept". How is a market place and brew house concept any different from what it was five years ago, when all this started?
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I wonder if there is asbestos in that building...
No. Waterside was opened in June, 1983. By that time, the dangers of asbestos were well known, and the use of asbestos for building construction was greatly limited. So asbestos was probably never used in the construction of Waterside.
On any demolition project, the owner is required to have a hazardous material survey completed by a testing laboratory before demolition begins. If any asbestos is found, they are required to have an asbestos abatement contractor remove the asbestos under strictly controlled conditions and dispose of the asbestos in a legal manner, or they are required to encapsulate the asbestos so no fibers will be dislodged and released. Assuming the Norfolk Building Safety Bureau is doing their job, if asbestos was used to construct Waterside in the early 1980s, it is gone by now, or else it is in a location where it will not be disturbed during the renovation.
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I think that Greyhound seems to get lost in all the transportation talks in the city. The terminal is old and in need of renovation if they plan on keeping it open.
It would make sense to include them in any talks of a transportation hub in the city.
Finally, this property is a prime location for development. Couple this property with the old golden triangle property and you have some fantastic options to expand downtown.
Why would Greyhound want to move? Yes, their building is old, dirty, and in need of renovation. But it's cheap. A new terminal would cost big bucks. Are any potential passengers thinking "I'd take the bus, but their Norfolk terminal is so dingy. No, I think I'll fly instead."? Or, "I was going to fly or take the train, but now that Greyhound has a brand spanking new terminal, I guess I'll take the bus instead."? Or even, "Now that I can get Greyhound right at the bus transfer station, I'll go with Greyhound." I don't see any incentive for Greyhound to leave their Shangri La on Brambleton.
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Looks like Stone is still thinking about Norfolk... or playing Richmond!
No, that is an old article. The date on the article is September 9, 2014.
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I think this picture really does Norfolk well. But with pictures like this, I can't help but be reminded of how much urban fabric was lost with the construction of MacArthur Center.
If 17 acres of empty parking lots that sat undeveloped for over 30 years constitutes "urban fabric", then yes, we lost urban fabric to MacArthur Center.
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I agree that the two cities need to cooperate, and they should do their squabbline in private. But it works both ways. Norfolk should have reached out to Virginia Beach to bring them on board before announcing this project. Virginia Beach is right to look at this project closely. A large portion of their population has to traverse Northampton Boulevard to reach the interstate. The Northhampton Interchange is already one of the busiest sections of interstate highway in the state, and it can only get worse with this shopping mall. Virginia Beach owes it to their constiuents to be proactive on this; they cannot just sit back and let Norfolk do whatever they want in this important corridor, just for the sake of "regional cooperation".
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And it was. Before the mall was built, the land where MacArthur Mall sits was a 17-acre parking lot. That's how it was referred to in the paper and in City Hall - "the 17 acres". And it was like that for years and years, maybe decades. The city tried hard to find a developer to develop that parking lot without success, until Taubman came along with the mall proposal. Despite its shortcomings today, back then it was the only option for the city, and it did turn the city around.