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The Soundside Event Site

Nags Head, NC

Located on the Roanoke Sound in Nags Head, the Soundside Event Site is a 15-acre park primarily designed as a venue for art shows, festivals, and the Outer Banks Seafood Festival. Additionally, it provides lawn areas for passive recreation, kite flying, and access to the Roanoke Sound for non-motorized watersports during non-event days. VHB provided master planning, design, and public involvement services to help the Dare County Tourism Board improve the site. Project goals included enhancing existing site uses, creating opportunities for year-round usage, and allowing flexible implementation over time.

VHB worked closely with the project Steering Committee, facilitated public meetings, and developed a master plan that includes improved multimodal access to the site, multiple event lawns, a central pavilion, parking, low impact stormwater management features, public restrooms, pedestrian walkways, and a waterfront boardwalk. Following the adoption of the master plan, VHB developed the overall schematic plans, and the Phase I and II construction plans for the park. Phases I and II have been constructed and the site is open to the public.

The Soundside Event Site master plan. Visitors enjoying the Outer Banks Seafood Festival at the Soundside Event site. Visitors enjoying a live musical performance during the Outer Banks Seafood Festival at the Soundside Event site.

Client

  • Dare County Tourism Board

Services

  • Construction Monitoring

  • Low Impact Development Design

  • Master Planning Services

  • Mulitmodal Transportation Planning and Design

  • Open Space Planning

  • Permitting

  • Public Outreach

  • Resiliency Planning

  • Sidewalk Design

  • Site/Civil Engineering

  • Stormwater Design and Engineering

  • Visualization

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