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https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/04/21/virginia-beachs-new-economic-development-director-on-regional-cooperation-booming-investment-interest/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHTuJkgvJZOWUWcqgyg8qF7FunCmW-hiR-lrG1BIBPDXVRkJoh-jLYsdM9w_aem_AarVaB1wAas-FDbwtOtWr7gvP2dqqCFXvv3JTLOBFhSRnUt5F18F8UG4wxTsMpB9kb4#lv9sbi93uls19izwou Developers are chomping at the opportunity to redevelop aging hotels at the Oceanfront and want the city to chip in, said Rigney, who sat down for a wide ranging interview this month in the economic development board room in Town Center. “There are serious developers wanting to invest mega-millions of dollars in our resort area,” he said. “Those guys come to us and say, ‘Hey, if we tore these things down and put something new up, can you help us with parking, water, sewer and the like?'”

https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/03/14/cold-storage-company-announces-77-5-million-expansion-to-suffolk-with-80-jobs/ More jobs coming to Suffolk

I feel your pain /: what else is there to say, other than that we just don’t have a lot going for us. Even the wind turbine things are hitting a snag and other areas are beating us to it. It’s getting late in the game to expext any of these major developments to make a meaningful difference here

300+ new jobs starting at $50K+ coming to VB https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2023/november/name-1017661-en.html

feels good to finally have new construction in town center!

What an incredible transformation. It would be nice to get an update on how many ppl are living downtown. It would be amazing if we could get some new retail/bar announcements. We need some live music (Nashville or Austin) establishments on Granby. Also, the city needs to bring back First Fridays.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Delta Air Lines announced it is bringing back daily nonstop flights from Norfolk International Airport to Minneapolis-St. Paul. This is great news for anyone with business, family or vacation trips planned for the twin cities. The flights resume June 7, 2024, with the following schedule: Depart ORF 6:15 a.m.; arrive MSP 8:19 a.m. Depart MSP 7:45 p.m.; arrive ORF 11:36 p.m. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/norfolk/delta-to-resume-flights-from-norfolk-to-minneapolis-st-paul/amp/

https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/10/25/proposal-for-norfolk-shopping-center-aims-to-bring-grocery-store-back-to-st-pauls/ Under the proposed redevelopment plan, the current shopping center and adjacent gas station parcel would be torn down and replaced with a new development called The Village, Washington said during a presentation to the City Council work session Tuesday. The first phase of construction would include a 31,000-square-foot grocery store, a 12,000-quare-foot rebuild of the damaged shopping center and a 25,000-square-foot job training facility, according to Washington. Later phases call for an 80,000-square-foot cultural and community center, 15,000-square-foot commercial and small business center and a 4,400-square-foot Sentara clinic.

VB wants Capstone to come back and develop the project at the Convention Center. Hopefully they’re still interested. https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/09/14/virginia-beach-will-hear-details-on-convention-center-hotel-proposal-next-month/ Norm Jenkins of Capstone Development has been officially invited back Oct. 3 to present a proposal for a mixed-use project on 19th Street. A briefing on the development project was scrubbed from the Virginia Beach City Council agenda in April at the request of the mayor. Jenkins wants to build a convention center hotel and apartments on what is currently surface parking lots. “This has the potential to be a significant game changer for us and really elevate us as a tourist destination,” Mayor Bobby Dyer said at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

“There will be a McDonald’s within the building on the first floor,” said Executive Director Jay Grant. “There will be several other small business opportunities and community spaces there in addition to a business incubator center.” https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/norfolk/groundbreaking-underway-for-unity-place-norfolks-new-apartments-in-st-pauls-area/

STIHL is “furloughing” 1/3 of its VB employees, after recently receiving a grant and announcing expansion, impacting over 1,000 workers /: https://www.13newsnow.com/amp/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/stihl-virginia-beach-furloughs/291-c0ff4ec3-0dd2-410f-879d-23c67560a7bb

Not sure if this has been discussed yet, but planning commission approved an additional 176 units at the Southern Pines development. https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/virginia-beach-departments-docs/planning/Boards-Commissions/Planning-Commission/Staff-Reports/2023/PC-August-2023-Staff-Reports.pdf There’s an affordable housing element, which I’m sure we will be seeing more of with the need for 2000+ Amazon workers in the near future

As part of the company’s Delivery Hub, the Business Services team provides a variety of specialized support for Booz Allen employees in areas including customer service, help desk, and HR operations. Establishing a Business Services operations center in Norfolk is aligned with a multi-year, multi-location transformation strategy designed to efficiently scale shared services support for Booz Allen’s rapidly growing business. The company has relocated senior leaders to Norfolk and already filled more than 60 Business Services positions locally. These roles joined several hundred Norfolk-aligned Booz Allen staff providing a variety of innovative technical support to defense, federal civilian, and national security clients in areas such as specialized intelligence and space system capabilities, warfighting capability development, and mission readiness analytics solutions across the digital battlespace. The company expects to double its Business Services team in the next year and to continue to add new regional jobs and infrastructure investments over the next five years. https://hamptonroadsalliance.com/news/booz-allen-expands-norfolk-footprint-with-new-shared-services-delivery-hub/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-city-council-moves-closer-new-music-festival/291-1625005b-bc16-4727-a3c5-96769c72f899 VB approves (7-4) new music festival in October, same week as Boardwalk Art Show. We truly have witnessed an explosion in events at the Oceanfront. Incredible, really. I commend the City for putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to tourism investment.

https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-approves-spending-22-5m-to-build-a-new-road-for-two-new-warehouses-reportedly-for-amazon/ Tuesday night, Virginia Beach City Council voted 10-1 to approve a development agreement between the city and the Panattoni Development Company to move the project forward. Construction could now begin before the end of the year on the combined 237 acres, which straddles both sides of Dam Neck Road near where it meets Harpers Road. In total, the company behind the development is expected to invest more than $383 million and create more than 1,000 new jobs, according to the city. Those jobs will pay an average of $17 per hour at the large facility and $20 per hour at the 219,000-square-foot facility.