I love Scope. I think it is beautiful, but since it is small, it seats only about 10,000, it is bypassed for bigger venues. Pity, more people don’t know about it.
I have spent 100’s of hours there working shows , hockey games etc.
I also saw some concerts there , way back in the day.
Grateful Dead, Bowie, Black Sabbath, Tom Petty, ZZ Top , Scorpions , Judas Priest . They used to get quite a few shows. A lot more competition for tours these days.
Scope is sadly showing it’s age , they really can not expand it and add stuff like, luxury boxes that big arenas , so they get skipped over . The water table rules out going lower . Norfolk is having trouble just to update Chrysler Hall . They were going to work on modernizing that venue and then Covid hit. So now the price of that upgrade has blown up , causing more issues.
Live Nation made an offer to Norfolk a few years back offering to run the place for Norfollk , the city declined. Live Nation also made an offer to Virginia Beach to operate their Amphitheater. VB declined. Live Nation retaliated by dropping Virginia Beach from numerous tours . This has been going on for several years now. live Nation are thugs along with the gangsters at Ticketmaster.