{"id":2039435,"date":"2025-09-21T18:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2039435"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:27:19","slug":"norfolk-eyeing-the-creation-of-entertainment-district-around-new-casino-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/norfolk-eyeing-the-creation-of-entertainment-district-around-new-casino-cdc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk eyeing the creation of entertainment district around new casino \u2014 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"grid-x authorShare\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-8 grid-x\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"authorIm\"><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"author\">Trevor Metcalfe, The Virginian-Pilot<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-4 grid-x align-middle share\">\n<div class=\"ns-buttons ns-inline ns-no-print\">\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"CDCart\">\n<p>Norfolk leaders are looking into whether an under-construction waterfront casino near Harbor Park could be the centerpiece of an entertainment and nightlife district for the city following a 2022 downtown crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Washington, Norfolk\u2019s economic development director, confirmed the city was engaged in early planning of the creation of an entertainment district around the casino and Harbor Park on Friday after a tourism event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a premier baseball team,\u201d Washington said. \u201cYou have a premier, world-class casino facility. What else can we do with the rest of the site?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norfolk owns much of the land around the casino site and Harbor Park and uses a significant portion of it for surface parking lots during Tides games.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source cdcgaming.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Metcalfe, The Virginian-Pilot Email, LinkedIn, and more Norfolk leaders are looking into whether an under-construction waterfront casino near Harbor Park could be the centerpiece of an entertainment and nightlife district for the city following a 2022 downtown crackdown. Sean Washington, Norfolk\u2019s economic development director, confirmed the city was engaged in early planning of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2039436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Norfolk-eyeing-the-creation-of-entertainment-district-around-new-casino.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}