seanpecor

As I understand it, the grain milling company is finishing up it's new (massive) milling facility, and once they move operations from the Carilion location, they'll level that facility to make room for more of the biomedical facilities development. Exciting stuff! Sean

46 lawyers + 46 paralegals + administrative staff = 120+ employees at a minimum. Assume 300 square feet of office space for each employee (this is a law firm, not a cubicle grid) and they would need 30,000 square feet. Then you need storage for all of the documents that 92 lawyers and paralegals create every day, which is beyond significant. That might be another 30,000 square feet. So at 60,000 square feet you're now 60% of the size of a typical WalMart. I'm sure there would be room for substantial leased space, but a law firm that big needs some serious square footage. Sean

I think it should be on at sunset and remain on until sunrise. It's a great landmark. Actual stars (well, besides our sun) appear after sunset and remain visible until the sun rises, no? The city council needs to lighten up At a minimum, it should trigger on at sunset and remain on for eight hours. Sean

I would opt for residential housing, especially upscale housing - withiin city limits. The city itself has a glut of lower value residential properties, and most (all?) new upscale developments are slotted for Roanoke County. Those houses would sell. We can argue all day about whether or not Roanoke City has quality schools or not. I'm not an expert on Roanoke or it's schools. But if Roanoke City follows other City/County school dynamics, the City schools have a MUCH MUCH larger share of children living in or very close to poverty conditions. And those kids have different and more complicated challenges. And they pull down educational "scores" that our governments in their infinite wisdom apply to our schools. I think if we had a combined socio-economic dataset we'd see that children going to City schools perform generally as well as kids in the County schools provided you are comparing children in similar socio-economic conditions. Anyway, I think a housing development would be an ideal way to appeal to thirty and fortysomethings who have kids, have cash and want to be close to the action. Sean

Hi folks, just stumbled over this forum and signed on. I'm in Boones Mill, but of course we spend alot of time and dollars in Roanoke so I'm happy to have found this community. Cheers, Sean