Virginia Beach scales back bioscience park plans because of local industry size Trevor Metcalfe, The Virginian-Pilot Leaders at the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development have scaled back a planned bioscience project and canceled new building construction in order to speed up the implementation process and because of a lack of local industry. “The cluster just wasn’t mature enough to support that,” said Virginia Beach Economic Director Taylor Adams. The city planned to begin construction on the 60,000-square-foot building — the first at the long-planned VABeachBio Innovation Park on Princess Anne Road — in the late summer or early fall of 2018, according to Virginian-Pilot reporting.