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Virginia Beach unveils Central Beach small-area plan with 900-space gateway, elevated pedestrian connector
Summary
City planners and Dills Architects presented a preferred Central Beach Small Area Plan that centers a cultural district, an elevated pedestrian connector and a gateway parking building with roughly 900 spaces to improve connectivity around the Convention and Civic Center area.
City of Virginia Beach planners and the design team from Dills Architects presented a preferred Central Beach Small Area Plan at the council meeting, proposing a new “gateway” parking building of roughly 900 spaces, an elevated pedestrian connector and a cultural district linking the Convention and Civic Center area with Nineteenth Street and Atlantic Park.
The City’s Department of Economic Development framed the plan as a response to rising development interest around the Convention and Civic Center and said the planning effort combined past studies, public engagement and refined concept testing. “The intent here is that this is actionable, but also aspirational,” said Clay Dills of Dills Architects as he described the preferred hybrid approach to land use and circulation.
The plan covers the study area from roughly the former MOCA site north toward Norfolk Avenue, east to Atlantic Park and back to Birdneck Road. It highlights a mixed-use core at…
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