With a view of the Chesapeake Bay, the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center on Shore Drive is getting a major facelift.
A Richmond-based real estate management firm is purchasing the hotel for $19 million from its owners, who include the Shiflet family, and will rebrand it as Delta Hotel by Marriott. The company plans to spend $25 million on renovations, according to the city.
The hotel sits on 3.6 acres and has 295 suites.
While this Virginia Beach project is quite different, one has to wonder if there isn’t an investor eyeing the Bayshore property in Cape Charles with similar intent?
Recently, a reader submitted a similar theory about the Hyatt Resort in Cambridge, Maryland. Just for speculation, he asked, could a maritime resort like the one on the Choptank River be built here in Cape Charles? An interesting idea…here are some photos of the Hyatt Resort in Cambridge. The photos are courtesy of Hyatt Hotels:
This is a very scary prospect. Will our beautiful little “Mayberry” be able to support a large resort hotel that will, at minimum, dump so many more visitors onto the beach where we now have room to generously spread out our beach towels and umbrellas? What about the traffic? The noise? The crowded restaurants and sidewalks? The services that the town will need to provide? We had better be careful what we wish for. My hopes are that we are able to fill all of the lodging currently available and already planned, that our existing merchants realize profitability and that we aren’t pushed to the brink with tourists who get a bad impression because the town cannot keep up with its explosive growth. Not to mention the impact on locals. Change should be slow and well planned.
Mayberry? Mayberry would never be a ‘Gay Marriage Destination’. No gangs, no murder, no boys and men walking around with their a$$ hanging out of their pants……There is No Mayberry left on the Shore….they gave it away, one acre at a time.
One ‘You Can’t Say That’ at a time. Political Correctness at it’s very best.
Anything will be better than the eye sore that is the concrete factory…the only thing worse would be an abandoned crumbling concrete factory…
You live in Virginia Beach. How is that an eyesore for you?
silly me I thought I live in Bay Creek
No matter. That eyesore as you call it has supported a lot of families through the years. It was here before you were. If you didn’t want to look at it, why did you come here?
And now it is closed. You do understand closed, and that
‘supported” is past tense?
While this development is still only a supposition, I see that once again the citizens of CC are going to cut off their (economic) noses to spite themselves.
Gee, how much would have the area benefitted from the Prison, with all those HIGH PAYING LOW SKILL jobs? We’ll never know.
And it seems like we’ll never know what a destination resort will do to a town that; whether it likes it or NOT, is in the midst of an event called a ‘change in the highest and best use’, but wants to make its most vulnerable members continue to exist in poverty, penury and Governmental control vis-a-vis welfare.
How sad and shortsighted.