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November 2020

Buena Vista buildings bought by Roanoke developer Ed Walker went to auction in late October.
Oct 27, 2020

Downtown Buena Vista buildings go to auction

Updated Oct. 29 Some things just don’t work out as planned, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end. Roanoke developer Ed Walker purchased 16 properties in downtown Buena Vista for $1.3 million during 2017 and 2018, with a plan to revitalize the small city nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains just southeast of Lexington. Walker [...]

Oct 27, 2020

The Results of the Virginia Society of CPAs’ 2021 Virginia Economic Expectations Survey

  To download the results as a PDF click here   Related Articles We asked five certified public accountants for their take on the state of their regions. This is what they had to say. Answers have been edited for length and clarity. The Results of the Virginia Society of CPAs’ 2021 Virginia Economic Expectations [&he[...]

Beth Doughty, executive director of the Roanoke Regional Partnership, will retire in December after more than two decade
Oct 27, 2020

Stars in their eyes

When 19th-century movers and shakers picked sleepy Roanoke as the site of the crossroads linking the Shenandoah Valley and Norfolk & Western railroads, the town grew with such force and speed that it earned the now-obscure nickname “Magic City.” Over the decades that followed, thousands of Roanokers toiled for the N&[...]

Danville suffered from the closure of textiles mills in the early 2000s, says the city’s economic development director, Corrie Teague Bobe. Now Danville voters are deciding whether a $400 million casino and resort should be built on the former Dan River Mills industrial site in the Schoolfield area.
Oct 25, 2020

Viva Virginia

Danville once stood tall as a driver of Virginia’s economy, an epicenter both for textile production at Dan River Mills and for tobacco when it was still the commonwealth’s golden leaf. Both industries came crashing down in the 2000s. A rising tide of public sentiment led to tobacco’s decline, and the federal quota system [...]

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