NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk International Airport has paused plans for an on-site hotel after terminating its agreement with the developer last month, according to Mark Perryman, the president and CEO of Norfolk Airport Authority.

This comes as the airport is in the middle of a nearly $1 billion modernization program.

The airport originally chose ORF Hospitality to develop the hotel, Perryman says. However, after the partnering organizations that founded ORF Hospitality split up, a "default notice" was issued.

This means the terms of the deal previously agreed to in February 2024 were not met.

"ORF Hospitality is who we selected to develop the hotel. Once we found out that that team had broken up and that there was no longer a partnership that had been described to us in the proposal and th

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