Hollydazzle at City Center

At the heart of the Peninsula’s premier business community, Oyster Point Business Park, you’ll find City Center, a high density mixed use development that is changing long-held perceptions about Newport News. City Center has been developed by partnering with private investors and developers to create a new urban “sense of place,” where people want to live, work and have a good time. On any given day within its 52-acres, folks at City Center are doing the things that make a vibrant urban center alive with activity:  

• Enjoying stylish living (365 apartments, 54 condominiums so far…)
• Staying the night in luxury at the 256-room Marriott Hotel
• Attending seminars and conferencing within 70,000 square feet of meeting space in the Marriott Conference Center
• Shopping in high-end retail or taking in a variety of fare from any of ten eating establishments found within 140,000 square feet of retail space
• Enjoying entertainment courtesy of the joint efforts of the Virginia Arts Festival, the City’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and the Department of Development.
• Conducting business in nearly a half million square feet of office space
• Taking leisure time in the park setting that surrounds the 3-acre fountain lake 

For City Center, the strength of the public/private partnering comes from teamwork along with clear leadership roles and responsibilities:  

• Private financial backing – approximately $250 million to date by private development partners
• Commercial and retail development expertise and execution-- NAI Harvey Lindsay
• Land use and architectural expertise -- CMSS Architects
• Parking garage ownership and maintenance; public infrastructure master planning, financing and construction; Conference Center ownership – approximately $90 million investment to date by the City of Newport News and the City’s Economic Development Authority.
• Event Planning – Virginia Arts Festival City of Newport News

Looking across the Fountain Plaza at City Center

And City Center continues to grow.  Plans are unfolding for more commercial development on remaining acreage.  Please visit this site often, as well as the links provided below, for more information as it becomes available.  If you would like more information on this or any other project of the Department of Development or the City's Economic/Industrial Development Authority, please use this form.

City Center at Oyster Point Overview (provided by NAI Harvey Lindsay): 

http://www.citycenteratoysterpoint.com/

City Center's Architecture/Land Planning:

http://www.cmssarchitects.com/City_Center_at_Oyster_Point_ud.php