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Old 08-05-2019, 09:38 AM
 
Location: Coastal South Carolina
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I went to waterside with my best friend there and my kids and had not seen it for 5 years. It is very nice!
What a nice change and nice place! Ate at simple Chipotle, but saw the nice restaurants cool setup on the water.
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Old 08-05-2019, 09:01 PM
 
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Next time you come back I wouldn't be surprised if it's changed in terms of restaurants/stores. From what I hear it's expensive & not doing as great as people thought.
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Old 08-10-2019, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth, VA
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Next time you come back I wouldn't be surprised if it's changed in terms of restaurants/stores. From what I hear it's expensive & not doing as great as people thought.
It is expensive but I don't know what people really expect? The last iteration of Waterside was cheaper but they had a lot of problems because of the crowds that they drew. I think it being expensive was designed to keep out certain people from Waterside. Call it gentrification. They only want a certain clientele, with certain tastes. That does not necessarily scream rich people. But it does mean that a lot of the riff raff won't be there this time around.

Telling is how the Chipotle is the first thing and it is accessible from the outside. The deeper into Waterside you go, the more money you're going to spend.

Waterside, this time around, is more indicative of the direction that the city wants to go. Norfolk would love nothing but full on gentrification but the economy is not strong enough to win that type of person to live and work in Norfolk (solely) so they get what they get.

For the OP, of course Waterside is nice. But it is nice for a reason. It isn't really for the locals this time around they're trying to win over a different demographic.
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