VIRGINIA BEACH — Nearly two years after a fire destroyed a row of businesses on Atlantic Avenue, the family that owns the Oceanfront building rebuilt it and recently opened a new breakfast spot.
On July 11, 2023, an accidental fire started at the T-Shirt Factory on 26th Street and Atlantic Avenue. It spread to Maple Tree Pancake House and the King of the Sea restaurant at each end of the one-story building.
More than 75 Virginia Beach firefighters and three ladder trucks worked to extinguish the flames, but the structure could not be salvaged…