Norfolk’s waterfront along the Elizabeth River is now home to a marina, Town Point Park and the Waterside District — but 50 years ago, and for hundreds of years before that, the view looked very different.
A 1961 clip from the News 3 archives shows Norfolk’s plan to redevelop its more industrial-focused waterfront at the time, with city leaders laying out a vision for what would eventually become Waterside Drive.
“The waterfront drive…runs along the waterfront, or near the waterfront in Downtown Norfolk. It’s contemplated to be built within the next two years,” Lawrence M. Cox, former executive director of the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, said in that 1961 broadcast…