New River Valley

[rjp212]

Yeah Legends to me looks like a mix of too many architecture types and its not meshing very well. It is definetly over priced especially for the area it is in.

Seems like Blacksburg is slowly beginning to be Charlottesville-ized.

[StevenRocks]

It's interesting that Books-A-Million is moving as far away from Barnes & Noble in Christiansburg as they can. Probably a good move.

[rjp212]

More than likely most of their clientle is made of fellow tech students, so it would be a smart move on their part to relocate closer to that market.

I would love for them to get rolling on constructing the lifestyle center, seeing as I graduate in little over a year.

[mclawsdrive]

Town of Blacksburg plans are progressing for acquiring the Doc Roberts Tire property for municipal offices.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/101275

This project looks like a miniature brownfields rehabilitation. Sounds like a good idea.

[rjp212]

Downtown Blacksburg is really starting to be extended.

[mclawsdrive]

Blacksburg held a small parade to celebrate its enrollment in the Cool Cities Initiative. Blacksburg is the only town in Virginia to join (although it is the biggest town in VA). 5 Virginia cities have joined, including Roanoke. story

I posted the story about Roanoke's entry into Cool Cities here.

[rjp212]

Construction update at NRV Mall

The upgrades are definetly starting to make NRV Mall look like a legitimate mall (it's finally getting a food court), but including a branch of a community college inside of it kind of makes it look tacky and lame.

[rjp212]

Walking back from Campus the other day I noticed that a Moe's Southwest Grill is going in the former Crossroad Store, which kind of surprised me since I was always told that chains were prohibited from college avenue to Roanoke St.

Definitely excited about this coming though.

[StevenRocks]

Construction update at NRV Mall

The upgrades are definetly starting to make NRV Mall look like a legitimate mall (it's finally getting a food court), but including a branch of a community college inside of it kind of makes it look tacky and lame.

They used to have a food court back when it first opened. It was too big for the mall and and it got cut in half in the '90s. There used to be line dancing there on weeknights. No joke. When PacSun came in, they removed it.

You can still see remnants of it on the hallway to the theater.

[rjp212]

According to an article in Collegiate Times, the lifestyle center is going to be called Boulevards at Blacksburg and is expected to be open by the first football game of 2008. It had previously stated that the Movie theater was going to be 10 screens, but the article states that it's now 14. 30+ screens in the NRV seems a little overboard I think. Also, there will be a Beamer's Steakhouse and a Superplay USA.

[rjp212]

Came across this the other night....

Colosseum Blacksburg

I've seen the sign for it on Main Street but didn't realize completely what it was. I must say it is rather interesting architecture. Is it just me or is Blacksburg starting to go through a little development boom?

[rjp212]

So I randomly came across a website for an Architectual Firm in North Carolina and under their portfolio were designs for a few projects in Blacksburg and Radford.

I'm still liking this design. It's rather unigue in the area.

Condo/Hotel in Blacksburg

I'd like to know how we went from this University Town Centre to the horrible strip mall center going up in its location (the project that spurred the wal-mart debate in blacksburg)

Where is this even going in Blacksburg? The Station at Dowdy Street

And this looks like it could become an interesting project in Radford. River Place

[burt]

Steven, I think you will find this particularly interesting.

Wrldcoupe4 in Richmond discovered this website and in addition to pertinent Richmond information there are photos of New River Mall in Christiansburg.

http://www.mstsd.com/

Go to Portfolio, click "retail/entertainment" and scroll down to New River Mall.

[StevenRocks]

They must have been the architects for the NRV Mall renovation. Thanks for the link, Burt.

[jbhay]

I'm so glad I found this thread, even though it's not very active...

Nevertheless, I finally joined the Sustainable Land Development Club @ Virginia Tech on one of their outings last Tuesday (4/14/09) to the Mt. Tabor neighborhood development just off of N.Main St. I'm not actually in the club, but wanted to get involved with anything I can in this exciting field of urban planning/etc.

Check these sites for cool things happening around Blacksburg:

Mt. Tabor - http://www.greenvalleybuildersinc.com/inde...=mttabormeadows

Blacksburg Motor Company Building - http://www.recycle.vt.edu/sustain/?p=108

I have also been skimming the Comp. Plan for Blacksburg today and I'm very excited with the plans for Main Street between Prices Fork Road and College Ave. They are going to put in two round-a-bouts at Prices Fork & Main and Alumni Mall & Main! Very cool. They're shaping this section of Downtown to be very pedestrian friendly. I can't wait to come back to town and visit in the years to come. I'm sad I'm getting ready to graduate soon and leave this wonderful town.

[StevenRocks]

Downtown Blacksburg is a wonderful place. It'll be good to see more pedestrian enhancements.

[calwinston]

'Radford-area economy makes a U-turn'

http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/radford-area-economy-makes-a-u-turn/238802/

[calwinston]

Blacksburg revitalizing Downtown to be more pedestrain friendly.

http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/wb/254767