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Signs, signs -- where’s the sports & events center?

It’s Oct. 15. Greater Williamsburg Sports & Events Center removes sign from Bypass Road. James City supervisors deny a storage unit at Promenade development. No King’s Day event and flu clinic.

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Oct 15, 2026
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A temporary banner pointing to events center at the bottom of this sign was removed Tuesday. (Williamsburg Watch photo)

A day after a local elected official complained about the lack of signs for the new sports and events center, we found ourselves going to a meeting there. The temporary sign announcing the entrance to the Greater Williamsburg Sports and Events Center off Bypass Road was gone.

If your GPS orders you to enter anyway, all you will find is a small red sign at the next intersection pointing to the left:

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“I’m frustrated about the signage,” James City County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Ruth Larson complained at a board meeting Tuesday night.

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