Neighborhoods Gainsboro Residents Urge City To Focus on Present Housing Stock Over Future Hub Residents expressed confusion and criticism over a report aimed at guiding the long-neglected neighborhood’s revitalization.
Neighborhoods Plan To Revitalize Roanoke's Former Viscose Plant Gives Residents of Southeast, Long Seen as Neglected, New Hope Over the last decade, Southeast Roanoke has experienced the steepest drop in population among any Roanoke neighborhood.
Neighborhoods Roanoke City Tried To Buy Claytor Clinic Property As Part of Gainsboro Revitalization Negotiations broke down in recent months because of the property’s convoluted ownership model, the city said.
Neighborhoods Survey of Gainsboro Residents Marks Roanoke's First Step Exploring Neighborhood Centers The effort marks a shift in city thinking from a focus on downtown to revitalizing neighborhood centers across Roanoke.
Neighborhoods A Tale of Two Roanokes? Some Neighborhoods See Explosive Growth, Others A Declining Population, Data Show Last year, Roanoke inched above 100,000 in population for the first time in forty years. But not all that growth is spread evenly across the city.
Neighborhoods On the Future of Gainsboro Tensions over whether and how the neighborhood should change, cross generational, racial and class lines.