The City is in the process of phasing the development. It will include new water and sewer lines, upgraded traffic systems, burial of overhead utilities, new sidewalks and streetscapes.  To reduce congestion  throughout the Laskin Gateway, the project also includes realigning the traffic pattern to improve vehicular and pedestrian safety. Plans include rerouting traffic through a roundabout on Laskin Road to 30th and 32nd streets. Laskin Road would become a pedestrian-friendly thoroughfare with only two lanes of traffic and parallel parking along both sides of the street. Meanwhile, 30th Street would feature two lanes leading into the resort area and one lane westbound, while 32nd Street would have two lanes westbound and one lane leading toward the beach.

In the future, the Laskin Gateway will serve as an inviting entrance to the resort area. The new Beach Center development will be a bustling pedestrian-friendly corridor planned around 31st  Street between Pacific and Arctic avenues. The development will feature sidewalk cafes, offices, apartments and condominiums.

 

The Laskin Road Gateway project will transform the area surrounding 31st Street and the Oceanfront into an exciting people-gathering place featuring upscale shops, restaurants, hotels and residential buildings – all in a pedestrian-oriented setting. This inviting activity-oriented atmosphere provides the local community, retail customers, hotel guests and other visitors a delightful place to gather, dine, shop, live, work or play in a lively high-quality environment.

 

	​Phase 4 Project Limits-12/10/09
	​Phase 4 Project Limits-7/12/11
​	​Phase 4 Completed Aerial Photo
​	​Phase 4 Public Meeting (September 7, 2011) Presentation and CommentsPresentationComments

 

 

The district was studied and detailed in the Resort Area Strategic Action Plan, which was adopted by the Virginia Beach City Council on Dec. 2, 2008.  The plan envisions a corridor with a coordinated transportation and retail strategy that gets people out of their cars and on foot in a village-like setting.  Development is sensitively scaled to the needs of adjacent neighborhoods, and mixes new residential opportunities with active street level retail uses that front on widened sidewalks to accommodate pedestrian traffic and outdoor dining.  New development is reinforced by an open space system that combines streetscape improvements with strategically located green space, including a planned "circle" marking the arrival of the Laskin Gateway corridor to the beach.

 

 

The improved infrastructure will support more than $60 million in new private development in one block alone featuring multi-use development to foster a live-and-work environment that includes:

 

Through a basic public-private partnership, we enable the private sector to create higher levels of investment, and the public reaps the benefits of that effort through increased tax revenues and improved quality of life.

 

The Laskin Road Gateway project also produces economic vitality, creating wealth in increased commercial land values and capital investment in private infrastructure.