Dome Site Developer Misses Deadline On Entertainment Venue In Virginia Beach

Yet another plan to develop 11 acres of land near the Oceanfront is fizzling.

The company proposing an entertainment venue at the old Dome site missed a deadline Thursday and has been mum on whether it still plans to pursue the project.

It’s been more than 20 years since the city demolished the concert venue, a geodesic dome on Pacific Avenue at 19th Street.

The city has since hung its hat on unfulfilled promises from developers who pledged to bring year-round entertainment options to that part of the resort area, now a city parking lot. The latest to miss another deadline to develop the site: the Peterson Cos., a Fairfax-based firm that built a mixed-use waterfront destination at National Harbor on the Potomac River in the Washington, D.C., area.

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