Living near the Lesner: New Virginia Beach apartments are next to reconstructed bridge | Local News
VIRGINIA BEACH For some apartment dwellers along Shore Drive, $2,500 in rent buys a sweeping view of the Chesapeake Bay . But at Overture Point Chesapeake Apartments , a complex for senior citizens, those prices will afford some future residents a different view: a close look at the new Lesner Bridge.
From certain angles, the building appears to be touching the bridge, but it’s 18 feet away. The city approved the distance between the senior apartments, which occupy the old Duck-In site, and the new bridge years ago . Developers were required only to leave 15 feet between the two structures, said Virginia Beach transportation planner Mark Shea . “I simply wouldn’t buy one,” said Walter Fox, an 81-year-old resident at Cape Henry Towers next to Overture Point . The whole building has been talking about the new apartments, he said. Fox said he would be concerned about car accidents on the bridge and the noise from traffic. “It seems nice, but there are similar opportunit...