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The city rebranded its commercial core the "Granby Mall." Granby Street was closed to auto through-traffic, repaved, landscaped and new street furniture and fixtures were installed. Granby Mall was a concept by city leaders with the best of intentions, but it actually ended up speeding the demise of Granby Street as a viable commercial destination.
Granby Street, Newport Avenue, Seekel Street, Thole Street 36°54′23″N 76°16′34″W / 36.9063°N 76.2762°W / 36.9063; -76.2762 ( Granby Street Suburban Institutional 22
When Riverview Theater opened in Norfolk in 1947, it boasted state-of-the-art amenities for the time: 700 seats, postwar air conditioning and an indoor box office, allowing patrons to stand inside ...
The original venue opened in 1922 [5] as a 2,000-seat motion picture and live entertainment theater. It continued as a movie theater into the 1970s. The building served as home to the Downtown Athletic Club from 1980 until 1998. [6] The NorVa reopened as a concert venue on April 28, 2000, with James Brown performing the inaugural show. [7]
Norfolk plans to purchase and renovate the 1940s-era Rosna Theatre on 35th Street. The city will buy the theatre for $712,000 with an additional $2.4 to $3.2 million for renovation costs ...
Norfolk Center Theater opens. 1947 - Ward's Corner Shopping Center opens at the intersection of Granby and Little Creek Roads. [20] Over time, future retailers included Hofheimer's shoes ('52), [21] a Giant Open Air supermarket ('63), [22] and the first 24-hour pharmacy in Norfolk, a People's Drug Store.
The downstairs Trustees Lobby facing Tazewell Street housed Doumar's Cones and BBQ's first location in Norfolk. The brothers would eventually operate 42 theatres in nine states. In Norfolk, Wells operated The Granby, Academy, Colonial, NorVa, Strand, New Wells and the American Theatre. Otto managed their entire theatrical enterprise from ...
Park Place is a neighborhood in the western half of Norfolk, Virginia. Its boundaries are roughly Granby Street on the east, Colley Avenue on the west, 23rd Street on the south and up to (and including the southern half of) 38th Street to the north. Within these boundaries Park Place is made up of 4 historic subdivisions; Virginia Place, East ...