Virginia Beach Boulevard is the main connecting road that brings US Route 58 mostly and extends from downtown Norfolk to the Oceanfront area of ​​Virginia Beach, through the development of the newly developed Urbanis Town Center from the latter as it connects two independent cities on the South Hampton Roads sub-road from the Hampton Roads area in southeastern Virginia.
The first hard surface path from Norfolk to Virginia Beach, Virginia Beach Boulevard opened in July 1921. The Boulevard was locally known locally, a major factor in the growth of the Oceanfront city and the adjacent part of the former Princess Anne County (consolidated with Virginia Beach in 1963) when cars replaced trams and trains as a preferred mode of travel.
In the late 1950s, the former airfield near the intersection with the semi-circular Military Highway Norfolk became the location of JANAF, the largest shopping center in the eastern United States at the time. When the indoor shopping center became the latest trend a few decades later, the Military Circle Mall was built in another quadrant of this main intersection. As traffic continues to grow, Virginia Beach Boulevard is largely paralleled by the Virginia Beach Expressway, a toll road completed in 1967. Originally named Virginia State Route 44, after the retired toll revenue obligations, it becomes toll free and rebuilt. -is identified as part of Interstate 264. However, "Boulevard" continues to serve in many ways such as "The Main Street" in Virginia Beach at the beginning of the 21st century.
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History
Before the end of the 19th century, the Atlantic Ocean front of Princess Anne County from Cape Henry south to North Carolina was isolated, depending on bad weather, and largely uninhabited. When the resort development in the resort area near Seatack (now known as the "Oceanfront" area) in Princess Anne County began in the 1880s, travelers rely heavily on steam-powered trains and then the electric trolley service from Norfolk to reach new ones. Princess Anne Hotel and others soon followed, provided by Norfolk Southern Railway and its predecessor. A line parallel to the beach that runs north to Cape Henry, and Pullman's car service is offered to the original Cavalier Hotel brick, which attracts many rich tourists.
At the beginning of the 20th century, weary rubber vehicles emerged as the preferred mode of travel for Americans, offering a more personalized transportation for tourists. Virginia Beach Boulevard was founded in 1922 as a concrete road that stretches from the eastern suburbs of Norfolk City through rural Norfolk County and Princess Anne County to reach the expanding Oceanfront area. The new highway provides major road access by car, bus and truck to the resort strip, and the area along the route.
For years, Virginia Beach Boulevard expanded further into Norfolk, and widened. Road services are built on both sides. After World War II, large shopping complexes, JANAF Shopping Mall, and the Military Circle Mall were established near the intersection with Military Highway. Further east, Pembroke Mall is built. Gradually, the former farmland in both districts gave way to development, and eventually the expansion of independent cities through annexation and consolidation brought the borders of Virginia Beach and Norfolk cities together at Virginia Beach Boulevard, near Newtown Road.
Along with more circular routes along the US 60 Routes which, like Ocean View Avenue and Shore Drive, are skipped from Willoughby Spit along the southern coast of Chesapeake Bay past Cape Henry to reach the Oceanfront area, Virginia Beach Boulevard (defined as US Routes) 58) presented as the main access route to the Oceanfront area to the largely parallel Virginia Beach Expressway (now I-264) opened as a highway in 1967.
In modern times, Virginia Beach Boulevard remains one of the main traffic arenas and commercial corridors of City of Virginia Beach, through the construction of the New Urbanist Town Center in the Pembroke area on Independence Boulevard. Today, almost the entire length of Boulevard is signed by the US 58 Route. The exception is the easternmost part, just east of the Great Neck Road (Route 279). Here, Laskin Road separates from Boulevard and takes the designation of Route 58 while Virginia Beach Boulevard becomes Business US Route 58, a designation it holds until it logically ends on Cypress Avenue. From there east to the physical terminal on Atlantic Avenue, the road continues like 17th Street by the sea.
The only route of the Hampton Roads Transit bus is Route 20, One of the busiest routes and the longest route in the region served from Downtown Norfolk to Virginia Beach Oceanfront, he travels along Virginia Beach Boulevard, serving the Military Circle Mall, Newtown Road, Virginia The Town Center Beach, Pembroke Mall also serves the Thalia area, Lynnhaven, London Bridge, Oceana and the entire Route 58 US Laskin Road, and the entire Virginia Beach Oceanfront finishes on Arctic Avenue and 19th Street
The main store of the 17th Street Surf Shop chain is located on the corner of 17th Street and Pacific Avenue, one block from the terminal.
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References
External links
- Restaurants along Virginia Beach Boulevard
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