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Amazon.com fulfillment and delivery centers

Virginia Beach

As part of Amazon.com’s growing presence in Virginia, the tech giant is coming to the Virginia Beach area in the form of a 650,000-square-foot fulfillment center and a 219,000-square-foot delivery station. It is an endeavor with $350 million in investments and is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs. Construction remains on track, according to Amazon. The robotics fulfilment center, a five-floor facility with 55 loading docks, is expected to open in 2025. The delivery station, meanwhile, is scheduled to open near the end of 2024.

Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center

Suffolk

After breaking ground in October 2022, construction on the Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center — an expansion to the existing Harbour View campus in Suffolk — is still on track to be finished in March 2025, with plans to welcome the facility’s first patients in the second quarter of that year.

The $80 million, 98,000-square-foot hospital roughly doubles the size of the facilities on the Harbour View campus. It is a three-story building that will have 18 inpatient beds and four operating rooms, along with associated pre-operative and recovery spaces, and capacity to further expand vertically should need arise.

As of late June, installation of the hospital’s elevators and storefront and facility windows is complete, and the hanging of drywall and installation of sprinkler piping is in process.

Atlantic Park

Virginia Beach

A $350 million joint project between music and fashion superstar Pharrell Williams and Venture Realty Group, Atlantic Park will span multiple acres and contain a surf lagoon and bungalows; a 3,500-person amphitheater; 300 apartments; more than 100,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and office space; two parking garages; and half a mile of upgraded public streets.

In late August, general contractor W.M. Jordan Co. laid the lowest depths of the Atlantic Park wave pool, which is expected to be open in May 2025. A wave machine is expected to be installed in October. Also, the $54.8 million amphitheater known as “The Dome” is set to be complete for a May 2025 opening.

Fusion @ NEON Apartments

Norfolk

Norfolk real estate developer Marathon Development Group is building a 239-unit, $50 million apartment complex on West Olney Road, part of Norfolk’s Neon District. The apartment complex will contain studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging in size from 498 to 1,733 square feet. Construction was not yet complete in July, but the project’s developers expected to have initial residents arrive in August, and the leasing office had started accepting applications and offering hard hat tours.

Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel

Hampton and Norfolk

The commonwealth’s largest transportation project to date — valued at $3.9 billion — is approximately halfway done with construction. The project entails construction, expansion and renovation along the 10-mile stretch of Interstate 64 from Hampton to Norfolk. Half of Hampton’s Mallory Street Overpass has been demolished and replaced with a new bridge of a greater span length. Traffic was set to be shifted there in late summer so work can begin to replace the other half of the bridge. 

Construction on the North Trestle — an eight-lane bridge between Hampton and the HRBT North Island — is also half done. The new four-lane eastbound North Trestle was opened for public use in May and is currently serving two lanes of traffic. North Island was expanded by 15 acres. Both the second halves of the new Mallory Street Overpass and the North Trestle are expected to be complete in 2026, in the fall and summer, respectively.

The South Trestle — an eight-lane bridge between HRBT South Island and Norfolk’s Willoughby Spit — is more than 70% complete. VDOT expects to make traffic shifts onto the structure starting in 2025. Road widening and rehabilitation of the Willoughby Bay Bridge, along with construction for Norfolk roadway spanning from Willoughby Spit to Patrol Road, is also in progress.

Mary, the project’s tunnel boring machine, has finished mining from South to North Island, meaning the first of the project’s two new two-lane bored tunnels is complete. So far, Mary has excavated 7,941 feet and installed 1,191 concrete rings. It will take approximately five months to rotate and reassemble Mary for her second tunnel boring back to South Island. The trip is expected to start late September and finish in summer 2025.

Finally, the expanded bridge-tunnel is expected to be open to traffic in February 2027, with final projects like landscaping expected to be finished in August 2027.

Seafood Industrial Park

Newport News

The northern portion of the city’s longstanding seafood harbor is set to undergo a harbor dredging, dock replacements, and a seafood market installation. All of the projects are expected to commence construction between January and July 2025.

Demolition of existing 130-feet-long wooden docks and dredging will take place first, followed by the construction of new piers with concrete decking and pilings and safety features. The replacement docks are expected to expand capacity to 10 to 12 boats and have a recreational dock for transient boats visiting the upcoming market.

Designs for the dredging cost $123,000 and are now complete, with dredging work estimated to cost $1.75 million. Designs for the dock improvements cost $239,000 and wrapped up in July. Construction for the dock improvements — estimated to cost $5 million — are expected to begin this coming winter. The planned seafood market will be located near the piers and is expected to span roughly 7,800 square feet. The market’s design cost $802,000, and construction is estimated to cost approximately $9 million.