Both have been hot-button issues in the city in recent years. Several city council members asked that they be brought back up for discussion, based on resident input.
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Efforts to save crumbling Washington Park cottage draw a step closer to reality with financial pledge from Roanoke council
The 1840 cottage would be turned into an amphitheater under the current plan. The city voted to contributed $150,000 toward the work.
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The Roanoke Valley once struggled to create a new economic sector. Now it has one, but challenges with city revenues and downtown remain.
Roanoke has expressed interest in a casino. Center in the Square is pushing out established tenants as part of a new business plan. A study puts a dollar figure on the value of Virginia Tech’s operations in Roanoke. Here’s how all this fits together in the grand sweep of the valley’s history.
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Roanoke City Council to take up funding for Washington Park caretaker’s cottage
Councilman Phazhon Nash said he thought the plan to provide $400,000 was a good “compromise” within the city’s tight budget.
Posted inEconomy
UPDATED: Have questions about Google’s data center project in Botetourt County? We have some answers.
Cardinal News is collecting questions from readers about the newly announced data center campus. Send us yours.
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Economic development officials: Protect Virginia’s reputation and opportunity for responsible data center investment
If localities that once embraced data center investment now want to move in another direction, that is absolutely their right. But it would be unwise for the commonwealth of Virginia to pull up the ladder of economic opportunity before communities like ours even get to climb the first rung.
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From butterfly effect to wheel of fortunes: Center in the Square, part 2
Roanoke’s Center in the Square has been pivoting away from its original mission of providing financial support for a hub of nonprofit cultural groups, and instead has begun creating its own attractions.
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Center in the Square: Institution to attraction?
Center in the Square opened in downtown Roanoke in the 1980s with a goal of providing nonprofits with rent-free space. That approach has shifted in recent years.
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Roanoke is not alone in trying to figure out how to generate more concerts for its facilities
We have more entertainment options than we did when the Berglund Center opened in 1971 as the Roanoke Civic Center, but those acts also have an increasing number of other places where they can play.
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Google says it will break ground on Botetourt data center campus in coming months
The tech giant bought more than 300 acres at the county’s Greenfield industrial park for $14 million last June.