Denise's Blog

Did you know real soon that one of the WA WA's in Virginia Beach will be a drive in?  You order food and drink and out it will come.  How easy can it be.  I don't which one for sure but I am guessing it is the one off of Northhampton Blvd. http://www.deniseallen.com/  Come and see ALL the Homes f...

Do you know what is for sale in the city of Norfolk besides residential real estate?  How about the World Trade Center.  The assessed value is $37.5 million  and its biggest tenant is gone in 2010.  No wonder they want to sell it.  How about Town Point Center which has a $9.76 million assessment....

The city's top spokesman for more than four years, Dennis Craff, is retiring.  He wants to spend more time with his granddaughter and home school her.  He will certainly be missed and this only adds to the string of departures by top administrators in Suffolk the last two years including the city...

No not a traffic tunnel but a tunnel for us to see fish at the Virginia Aquarium.  This tunnel is made of 6 inch thick acrylic polymer and will allow us to be almost part of the environment.  It should be quite interesting to see the spotted eagle rays with a 6-foot wing span fly around you.  The...

The Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville in Chesapeake may once again be open to the public.  This is the course that is built on 1.5 million tons of fly ash.  The course wasn't closed because of the fly ash but because of not having proper permits.  A deal has been worked out to open the course ...

Finally the Portsmouth Police Department is getting some training on handling the mentally ill.  The idea is for the officers to have training to deal with people that have mental problems.  The police can maybe identify someone who is mentally ill and deal with that person rather then putting th...

Maria Kattmann has been the assessor Suffolk since 1995.  She recently made a change to the way the city assessed waterfront real estate.  The people with waterfront real estate started paying for waterfront real estate and the people who had a mud hole paid for a mud hole.  Maybe she could eased...

The residents of Grandy Village in Norfolk had a view of the Elizabeth River NOT!!.  The usually prime real estate was hidden from view by tall reeds and weeds.  Now the city is bulldozing and weed eating the debris away along with the usual rats and snakes that hide in that of habitat.  I will p...

You work hard and don't know what to do after work?  Do what I do when I am not showing or listing homes  I jump in my Hybrid Camry and hop down to the local U pick strawberry field in Chesapeake, Va and enjoy some good berries.  Now is about the time the strawberries are at their peak and plenti...

If you think traffic is bad in Portsmouth now,, wait a bit.  Regular train service to the new APM teminal is about to begin.  So far the trains are arriving three times a week and are only bringing in materials not bringing any out.  Norfolk Southern will be doing the bulk of the hard lifting. ht...