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Norfolk Auto Row Historic District: August 25, 2014 : Roughly bounded by E. 14th, Boush, and Granby Sts., and Monticello and W. Brambleton Aves. Boundary increase approved March 8, 2019 33: Norfolk Botanical Garden
The Dominion Enterprises Building is a 20-story commercial office building located in downtown Norfolk, Virginia on Granby Street. The 500,000 square foot building was opened in 2007 and is owned by Dominion Enterprises. It contains a Heritage Bank branch on the first floor. [1]
The city rebranded its commercial core the "Granby Mall." Granby Street was closed to auto through-traffic, repaved, landscaped and new street furniture and fixtures were installed. Granby Mall was a concept by city leaders with the best of intentions, but it actually ended up speeding the demise of Granby Street as a viable commercial destination.
The skyline of Downtown Norfolk remained relatively low to mid-rise until the 1960s which brought the construction of the 23-story Bank of America Center in 1967. Still the second-tallest building in Norfolk, the Bank of America Center was the tallest building in Virginia from its completion until 1971 when it was surpassed by Richmond City Hall .
In 1944 the hospital was renamed DePaul Hospital and moved to its present location at Kingsley Lane and Granby St. in the city of Norfolk, Virginia. After, the hospital moved the basement and annexes of the old hospital, and housed classes for the Norfolk Division of the Virginia State College (now Norfolk State University) until 1958.
Ocean View Amusement Park was an amusement park at the end of Granby Street at Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, opened in 1905 [1] and operated by Jack L. Greenspoon and Dudley Cooper The amusement park and its wooden coaster , the Rocket, appeared in the 1977 movie Rollercoaster but closed on 4 September 1978. [ 3 ]
The school building is located on historic Granby Street where the south end is at Downtown Norfolk and the north end where the beaches of Ocean View lie. Granby is also less than a mile away from the historic Wards Corner, a local shopping and eating center. In 2010, Newsweek placed Granby in the top 1300 of "America's Top Public High Schools ...
The primary (west) elevation fronts directly onto Granby Street and is 311 feet wide. The north elevation, facing Brambleton Avenue, is 218 feet wide. The south elevation, facing Bute Street, is the smallest side at 140 feet wide, and the east elevation, facing Monticello Avenue, is the longest at 321 feet wide. [3]