

Comments and questions posted/sent to this page will not be responded to by City staff. Williams Farm Recreation Center is a 70,993 square foot, Silver LEED-certified facility located off Newtown Road between Diamond Springs and Newtown Elementary Schools.

In addition, WPL has participated in design charrettes and workshops for the Williams Farm Community Center including the outline of design-build criteria, and presenting plans and ideas for public input. Williams Farm Recreation Center JanuJust a reminder that this is an unofficial page. WPL provided land surveying, master planning, 35% level site design and landscape design for the bridging documents submittal. WPL worked closely with the Virginia Beach based Architectural firm of HBA Architects and various City agencies throughout the three to four year planning and design process for the bridging documents phase of the project. Williams, it provided adequate space for the learning center and a small skate park. The Williams Farm Community Center was not only the perfect opportunity for Mr. Producer, singer-songwriter, and skateboarder Pharrell Williams, originally from Virginia Beach, had been searching for space and opportunity to construct a music/technology/learning center for city youth.

An adjunct facility was added to the building program and brought with it one more exciting dimension to this unique campus. The new community recreation center was given the name “Western Bayside Community Center” during its infancy and now is referred to as the “Williams Farm Recreation Center”. Included in this park would be a new elementary school, interconnecting systems of infrastructure to link the new school with two existing elementary schools, a park of extensive open space, and a brand new community recreation center all tied together into a predominantly pedestrian campus. WPL provided master planning services for a bold new place called Williams Farm Park. WEATHER UPDATE: Wednesday, October 12, 2022. We handpick the best flower to craft into our pre-rolls. In 2004 the Williams family elected to sell their farm to the City of Virginia Beach provided the land would be used for either parks or schools. From our ninety-acre farm tucked away in the heart of the Berkshires to locally sourced cultivars in Massachusetts, Nova farmers & partners use the unmatched power of the sun to cultivate New England’s premier flower from the richest soils in all of New England. Meanwhile to the east down Newtown Road, the Williams family continued their farming operations on 55 acres of land directly across Newtown Road from Bayside Middle School. The Lake Edward community had been seeking a community recreation center for almost 30 years but space and opportunity had not been available.
