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(03-23-2018 12:39 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 11:57 AM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 11:48 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 11:39 AM)cmett003 Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 11:30 AM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  As soon as I hear anything or it's made public, I will post it.

As a homeowner of the west side, I hope it goes through ODU. Also, the people who are more likely to use it live on the west side of the city. But development is a major factor and there are a lot more opportunities on the east side of the city.

I think that's debatable. there is a ton of opportunity along 26th and 27th streets between monticello and hampton blvd. that whole area could be transformed. Good luck getting developers to try to convince people that military hwy area is getting better when if you look around. Its clearly not.

Considering development would be doubling down on stupid. That is exactly the argument they used to sell the starter line and that hasn't spurred any development. They need to build it for the residents to have riders or they need to tear the thing down and save the money.

There are at least 7 new apartment buildings downtown since the starter line was finished. The Bank of America building was just turned into The Icon. There's another loft apartment complex in Fort Norfolk/Atlantic City. The Main/Hilton. The Wells Fargo building. Major investment to renovating the Mariott. Waterside. Then there is the arts district which was just a sad street before and now it has 2 apartment buildings going up and host to a bunch of active businesses. Selden Arcade has new life.

To say there is no development is to ignore the revitalization of Granby Street and downtown norfolk.

Granby Street revitalization downtown has been going on for at least 20 years. I lived there from '02 to '07 and just as much went up in that time and there was no LRT. The Fort Norfolk, retirement community, Trader Publishing building, all the new condos in Freemason, etc all went up before LRT was anything but a pipe dream. The city pumps millions and millions down there. No evidence LRT has played any role whatsoever. You think those people are buying the overpriced condos and apartments so they can take a train to Newtown Road? Where is the development between Newtown Road and Granby? I thought millennials were going to be falling all over themselves to live there. After LRT, they still had to pump millions into Waterside, and MacArthur to keep them open just like they are going to have ot pump millions into the Janaf/Military corridor, with or without LRT. Maybe they ought to serve their citizens and let the development happen according to the market?

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Yeah, this is nothing remotedly close to what has happened downtown recently like Wells Fargo, Main, Icon, etc.

And to the dude about Military Highway. It is one of the highest traffic routes in the area. Stuff is going to happen there, it already has started. (look at all the newer development).

If you want to know what things are going where, look at demographics, traffic, zoning, flood maps, etc.