That area doesn't really have a downtown. The new location will be a multimodal transit center providing easy connections to what passes for local transit and the airport.
Easy connections to -- what! Yes local public transit is and has been not very good.
Hoping it will be better than 2012 -- when I rode 4 buses to get from Norfolk waterfront hotel to PHF and allowed 3.5 hours to get there (few miles, lotsa bayous) . The two "transit centers" where I waited for a half+ hours on the way not really user-friendly. Coulda got to ORF by taxi (or now, I guess, uber or lyft) but no bus or rail to ORF from anywhere on the peninsula, nor from Norfolk-Portsmouth either.
"multimodal transit center" near old or new NPN - it is to laugh!
Expect the new station may be better at serving the Navy officers and lobbyists who live on the peninsula and commute to DC. Enlisted and Huntington-Ingalls employees live as close to the shipyard as they can and sometimes ride Amtrak or fly via PHF (getting to ORF airport - naah -- if you can plan in advance.)
Asking -- what's the demographic for NPN? Like I said Navy officers and lobbyists. Who else?