What’s Next for Virginia Beach’s Town Center?

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) — In what seems like a few short years, Virginia Beach’s Town Center has gone from a vastly underutilized parcel of land off Virginia Beach Boulevard to a growing downtown.

The area is now home to a number of top companies, top stores and restaurants, and two performing arts centers. What can be found at the Virginia Beach Town Center today is the result of a vision to change the landscape and a hint of what’s to come.

From high atop the Armada Hoffler Building, Lou Haddad, the company’s CEO, looks out over what’s been accomplished since Town Center began taking shape back in 1997. His eye always focused on the next best fit.

Haddad, who partnered with the City of Virginia Beach, said the idea for Town Center was to do something different. The goal was to build something more vertical and denser in a large resort city, something to attract top-quality companies to the area.