Roanoke Vibe
A Great Day for Roanoke: Taubman Museum Opens
After years full of anticipation, the Taubman Museum of Art opened with much fanfare a week ago. The project was envisioned over a decade ago, with the architectural team being assembled and working on the project for over eight years. This is a great example of a wild vision becoming a reality in our city with much support from the private sector (businesses and individuals) and some support from the public sector (local, state and federal allocations). It took a visionary team to put it together and see it through and we should all thank those involved.
There was quite a lot of buzz on opening weekend- from discussions about the architecture, the space, the exhibits but perhaps most importantly the City of Roanoke. I kept hearing- “how did Roanoke get so Read the story »
The Market Building
Yes indeed- this post is on the left side of the blog as a featured Roanoke Vibe good story!
You see a related link on the right side (Dear Shanna…), but this link is all about the exciting potential of this building not the recent history.
The Market Building has been neglected and is in need of cosmetic improvements (very short term and almost finished) and a major renovation. The building has not been perfectly managed. It has become solely a smaller and smaller food court, with the mezzanine and second floor remaining empty, and even worse much of this vital real estate is being used for storage. The building had a major rehab and reinvention around 1983 - like many projects in our city, this renovation and concept has worked wonders, but too much time has been allowed to pass before the next renovation and re-invention of this building. Read the story »
RCPS opens the 08-09 Year with Convocation
A great and exciting convocation occurred this am at the new special events center in Roanoke. While the message was realistic, the mood was clearly upbeat. Many accomplishments over the last year were listed and eight goals for the coming year were outlined. The “rule book” found in No Child Left Behind was uniformly slammed for many well known legislative deficits and a promise was made by all in attendance to work together as a team to get every school accredited this year. Read the story »
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The process for Roanoke to add a commercial amphitheatre to our cultural and quality of life mix took another turn last week and I went with it. A clear goal of mine on council was to help prevent victory stadium type sagas by encouraging decisive and progressive decisions on potential capital projects....
I always relish the opportunity to work with and in support of the Roanoke City Public School System. Over the last month, I was able to participate in a work group with school board member Jason Bingham and our respective Financial officers to help figure out the budget gap for the schools and an...
Several people have asked for the full press release I used for my decision not to run for the House of Delegates seat that William Fralin will be vacating. Probably should have posted earlier, but please see the full release below- Press Release 3-8-09 Certainly for me, and I would think for most,...
While this is absolutely about a crisis and the decisions at hand will impact our community for a long long time- the one piece of good news I believe is how City Council and the School Board have committed to working together on minimizing the impact of this financial crisis on our great city. Perhaps...
Well this is one issue I did not intend to wade into. Certainly an emotional issue, a hot button issue and valid points on all sides. It is a vitally important issue for all of us. My concern was fairly simple: this is not a Roanoke City Council issue. This issue involves national politics, constitutional...
Well once again decisions that council makes- important ones involving vital amenities used by most citizens- gets caught up in controversy. While I stated it was a tough decision, let me explain how I came to my vote this Monday to proceed to design drawings and true budgets tied to the design. If I...
One of my hopes with this blog is, as much as possible, to use the site for media interviews and responses to reporting. So here itgoes with Shanna Flowers (shanna.flowers@roanoke.com) and her commentary in today’s Roanoke Times. I have emailed her requesting a response. One of the more difficult...
A lot of emails, calls and comments on this blog about the city council meeting last week (9-15-08). It was an interesting day to say the least! I recommend anyone that can, to get a tape of this meeting and watch it- watch a true tug of war between trying to make progress and trying to stop progress....
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