Posted on 4/27/18
Developer Cancels Plan For Apartment Complex On Former Shenandoah Life Property
A North Carolina developer with plans to build more than 200 apartments on the former Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. site has pulled out of the project.Property . . .
Posted on 4/17/18
Deschutes Rethinks Plans For Roanoke Brewery
Deschutes Brewery may delay and scale down its planned brewery in Roanoke.But the Bend, Oregon-based craft beer brewer will buy the land where it intends to . . .
Posted on 3/14/18
Roanoke Announces New Economic Development Emphasis
Roanoke City Manager Bob Cowell is assigning staff within the city’s economic development department to focus on innovation and economic inclusion.The city announced the “cluster,” as . . .
Posted on 1/5/18
Roanoke Adds Electric Cars To City's Fleet To Replace Gas Guzzling Sedans And SUVs
Roanoke officials are charged up about adding a dozen electric cars to the city’s municipal fleet, a move that the city says will reduce emissions and . . .
Posted on 12/12/17
Roanoke Planning Panel Moves Deal To Sell Part Of Villa Park Forward
A nonprofit with a contract to buy and restore the historic and city-owned Compton-Bateman House in Roanoke is expediting its plans because Congress may abolish the . . .
Posted on 11/20/17
Loss Of Historic Tax Credits, On The Republican Chopping Block, Could Have Big Impact In Roanoke Valley
Burned out and rotting, the historic but neglected Compton-Bateman House seemed at last to be saved.Isabel Thornton and her nonprofit Restoration Housing proposed to buy the . . .
Posted on 11/6/17
Developer Extends Purchase Option On Shenandoah Life Woods By 60 Days
The North Carolina development company with controversial plans to build apartments on part of the former Shenandoah Life Insurance property in southwest Roanoke has extended its . . .
Posted on 8/18/17
Roanoke To Hold Public Hearing On Using Eminent Domain Against Foundry For River Greenway
The Roanoke City Council on Monday will consider allowing eminent domain as an option to acquire the final property rights to complete the 10-mile section of . . .
Posted on 7/6/17
TAP Accepts Offer To Sell The Dumas Center But It's Not Naming Buyer
Total Action for Progress has a buyer for the historic Dumas Center for Artistic & Cultural Development, according to a Wednesday news release from the Roanoke . . .
Posted on 4/28/17
Developer Buys Site Of Thwarted Apartment Complex On Brandon Avenue
Robert Fralin, the local developer whose attempt to build upscale apartments on a vacant Brandon Avenue parcel the Roanoke City Council shot down last week, is . . .
Posted on 4/18/17
Roanoke City Council Votes 6-0 Against Rezoning For Brandon Avenue Apartments
Roanoke City Council on Monday night roundly rejected a hotly contested rezoning of vacant land on Brandon Avenue where a developer hoped to build an apartment . . .
Posted on 3/13/17
Roanoke Seeks To Acquire Unused Rail Bed To Extend River Greenway In Norwich
Roanoke officials are attempting an end around on a foundry company standing in the way of completion of the Roanoke River Greenway — by going straight . . .
Posted on 2/13/17
Grant Will Help Pay For Road To Deschutes
A $1.5 million federal grant will pay for half of the cost of Roanoke extending Blue Hills Drive to the site of the Deschutes Brewery. The . . .
Posted on 1/18/17
Roanoke Council Condemns Del. Kathy Byron's Broadband Bill
The Roanoke City Council unanimously condemned a bill Tuesday in the Virginia House of Delegates that members say would gut the regional broadband internet authority in . . .
Posted on 1/5/17
New Bridge And Roanoke River Greenway Section Planned
Work on another half-mile section of the Roanoke River Greenway is set to begin in June and will take about a year to complete. Roanoke officials . . .
Posted on 11/29/16
Roanoke Seeks Input On First Update Of Downtown Plan Since 2002
Downtown Roanoke residents, workers and anyone else with thoughts and ideas are invited to share them at a public meeting Tuesday evening regarding an update of . . .
Posted on 8/19/16
Deal To Develop Soccer Complex In Southeast Roanoke Closes After Years Of Work
After four years of negotiations, bargaining with banks for financing, slow-moving government agencies and dragged out environmental testing, Roanoke’s Valley AFC soccer club finally closed the . . .
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