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Community Profile: Roanoke/New River Valley Region


The opening of a medical school and research institute in Roanoke, joint ventures involving Virginia Tech and Carilion Clinic, has spurred the creation of The Bridges, a 23-acre, mixed-use development.


Virginia Regional Industrial Facility Authority to identify and develop more potential sites for industrial and com- mercial development. The authority also allows members to form individual agreements to share costs and revenue at sites. That gives landlocked cities, for


instance, the ability to assist and benefit from developable open space outside their boundaries. Meanwhile, localities also are making individual investments to upgrade their schools, libraries and other quality-of-life amenities. Roanoke also has taken strides to


On the other side of Roanoke,


Franklin County has invested nearly $11.2 million to acquire and prepare roughly 554 acres for a business park between Boones Mill and Rocky Mount. The county estimates it will attract $320 in private investment and create 2,200


jobs during the park’s lifetime.


Regional authority Additionally, Botetourt, Franklin


and Roanoke counties and the cities of Roanoke, Salem and Vinton are working together through the Western


shake up land use in neighborhoods near downtown. It has used historic tax credits as incentives for developers to reinvent vacant warehouses and office buildings. The city also is seeing results from nearly 20 years of investment and planning in its South Jefferson corridor. There it used land swaps and the power of eminent domain to acquire properties that now are being redeveloped. The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medi- cine and Research Institute are driving


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