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Timmons Group opens Roanoke office
Timmons Group has opened an office on Norfolk Avenue in Roanoke, according to a Thursday announcement by the engineering, design and technology services firm, which has headquarters in Chesterfield County. Timmons has 20 offices, including the new Roanoke office and its headquarters, located across Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina, Texas and Washington, D.C. Located […]
Riverdale project moves forward in Roanoke
Work on the $50 million-plus Riverdale mixed-use redevelopment planned for more than 126 acres on the sprawling former campus of American Viscose, a rayon plant that closed in the late 1950s, is moving right along. Developer Ed Walker shared a lengthy written update on the project Jan. 24 that included a rendering of a 267-unit […]
Carilion CEO appoints chief of staff
Carilion Clinic has named Chris Turnbull chief of staff for Steve Arner, the Roanoke-based health care system’s president and CEO, according to a Monday announcement. Joining Carilion as a senior advisor in public relations and corporate communications in 2014, Turnbull went on to become senior director of corporate communications in 2020, according to his LinkedIn […]
Va. Bar Association elects 2025 president
A Richmond attorney who leads the family law practice group at FloranceGordonBrown in Richmond will serve as the 2025 president of the Virginia Bar Association, the professional organization announced earlier this month. President of FloranceGordanBrown, Kimberlee Harris Ramsey joined VBA in 1989 and is a past chair of the association’s domestic relations section. Additionally, the […[...]
Riverdale, Roanoke foundry projects progress with zoning votes
Two ambitious Roanoke mixed-use readaptation projects are one step closer to rezoning under the city’s new “urban center” designation, which aims to create more pedestrian-friendly development. Developer Ed Walker’s Riverdale, a 126-acre multiuse project proposed on the site of Roanoke’s former American Viscose rayon plant, and another Roanoke-area developer’s &[...]
Tiny Cargo gets big local support
In a bid to keep the startup local, the Roanoke Regional Partnership found a 10,800-square-foot warehouse to renovate and looped in Roanoke Valley Development Corp. and Greater Roanoke Valley Development Foundation, which jointly purchased the building and offered Tiny Cargo favorable leasing terms. “If a place has the real estate solution to offer a business, […]
NRV passenger rail on track for 2027
Sooner than initially anticipated, rail passengers will be able to ride to and from the New River Valley for the first time since 1979. In late August 2024, the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority approved a deal that would bring Amtrak service to the region via Norfolk Southern’s main line from Roanoke by 2027. Passengers would […]
Roanoke City Council approves zoning changes — again
A residential zoning do-over in the Star City is done. At least for now. On Sept. 16, Roanoke City Council voted 6-1 to adopt zoning amendments that will allow greater housing density and eliminate single-family-only housing City Council adopted similar zoning amendments in March, but several city homeowners, including Republican mayoral candidate David Bowers and […]
Roanoke EDA delivers on Artspace funding
Artspace, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that develops affordable housing for artists and creative spaces, plans to build a mixed-use affordable housing project for artists and their families in Roanoke, at the massive Riverdale redevelopment project planned for the Southeast quadrant of the city. “This will be their first Virginia project,” Duke Baldridge, vice-chair of the Roanoke [&helli[...]
Va. Tech Carilion med school plans new building, doubled enrollment
In 2010, the first class of students arrived at Roanoke‘s new medical school, a partnership between Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic. And nearly 15 years later, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is undertaking ambitious growth plans. The medical school is in the early stages of planning a new 100,000-square-foot facility that would allow […]
VACU names Member One regional head for Roanoke, Lynchburg
Tim Rowe will be president of Virginia Credit Union division Member One’s markets in the Roanoke and New River valleys and Lynchburg, as the former Roanoke credit union integrates with VACU. Member One Federal Credit Union and VACU finalized their merger Aug. 1, creating a combined institution with 500,000 members and $7 billion in assets, […]
Taubmans give $25 million for Carilion cancer center
Carilion Clinic will soon break ground on a new building for an expanded cancer program thanks to a $25 million gift from a Star City family, the largest ever made to the nonprofit health care system. The gift from former Advance Auto Parts CEO Nicholas Taubman, also a past U.S. ambassador to Romania, and his […]
