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Many Virginia Beach Oceanfront business owners, but not all, have seen a good start to the summer season. Entrepreneurs and Hampton Roads natives Julie Aubrey and Chris Johnson, owners of Splash ...
The building that was consumed by fire Tuesday night the Virginia Beach Oceanfront is a “total loss,” according the fire department, along with the three business inside. The affected ...
Virginia Beach is a resort city, and the Oceanfront is a primary tourist attraction. The boardwalk, substantially updated in 1988, is a concrete path linking forty hotels and other attractions via pedestrian walkway and separated bike path [ 2 ] -- which in turn connects to nearby trails and surface streets.
According to official Virginia Beach history, before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Black Americans were only allowed to settle in this area because White Americans did not see any infrastructure value for the swampy, wooded areas of land that made up much of the Seatack area near the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. Black Americans ...
The Virginia Beach Town Center is located in the Central Business District of Virginia Beach across the street from Pembroke Mall. Although the city had planned a "downtown" project for decades, clearance of land, and building construction did not begin until around 2000. The first building, the Armada Hoffler Tower, opened in 2003.
New voting districts in Virginia Beach divide the Oceanfront resort area for the first time in city history, raising questions about how the change will affect tourism policy-making in the future.
Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists who eventually settled in Jamestown; modern Virginia Beach was established in 1906 ...
VIRGINIA BEACH — Local history proponents are ramping up efforts to save a city-owned resort area building to keep it from being razed to make room for redevelopment. Councilman Worth Remick ...