Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 18, 1990 TAG: 9003212466
SECTION: HOMES PAGE: D-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: SANDRA BROWN KELLY HOMES EDITOR
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Willard paid Franklin Shoppers Ltd. $225,000 for the property next to Fairway Bay Shopping Center in Franklin County and said he plans to move his Roanoke offices there by next year. He has offices on Virginia 419 near Tanglewood Mall and at his lake developments, The Waterfront and Water's Edge.
Willard is a native of Franklin County but has operated his Willard Construction Co. from Roanoke since 1973.
"Most of my business is at the lake," Willard said last week. "I have 10 years worth of developing left to do there."
Willard said plans for the new property include rental space and possibly a health club.
He recently announced plans for a restaurant near Hales Ford Bridge and said he is in the process of buying the property for that venture.
Coreast Savings Bank paid $90,000 to Franklin Shoppers for a parcel adjacent to Willard's purchase. It plans to put a branch bank on the site.
A Multi-Housing World Conference will be held April 20-23 in Chicago and will feature talks on how to attract capital to new residential income property deals, apartment finance and management, how to adapt housing to aging tenants and how to cope with fair housing laws.
Registration for the conference can be made through the National Association of Home Builders, 202-822-0254.
Multifamily housing starts, which fell to a 15-year low in 1989, were up 42 percent in January over December. The increase may not represent production that can be sustained, however, said Bob Nielsen, chairman of the home builders' national council of the Multifamily Housing Industry.
Nielsen said the increase was largely due to unseasonably mild January weather and the Jan. 13 deadline for meeting proposed new building standards under the accessibility requirements for disabled people.
Multifamily units receiving permits before Jan. 13 and occupied before March 13, 1991, are exempt from proposed new federal accessibility guidelines. The new guidelines, as proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will require builders to expand the interior space of units and provide for wider doorways and larger bathrooms. The guidelines also direct that at least one building entrance must be accessible to parking and public transportation.
The home builders estimate that the additional cost per unit of meeting the guidelines could run from $1,300 to $4,300 depending upon the design of the apartments. Raymond Sellers and Robert Craghead, developers of Village Square Shopping Center at Moneta, are adding 12,500 square feet to the project with a two-story building expected to be completed in June.
Sellers, who owns Century 21-Sellers & Associates and Craghead, whose business is Lakeland Marine and Sporting Goods, opened Village Square in 1984. This is the third phase of the project. Sellers said the new building will have at least nine business sites and that he is looking more for retail business than for office tenants.
He said negotiations are under way for a fast-food restaurant for the building.
A 7,600-square-foot office building is planned at 1200 Corporate Circle just off Roanoke's Brandon Avenue near Deyerle Road Southwest. The building will house offices for Balzer and Associates Inc., which has 30 employees.
The Salem firm, which offers engineering, surveying, architecture and planning services, is the developer of the complex under the name, McBal Corp. James W. McAden with Balzer said J.M. Turner and Co. will be the contractor on the project and construction is expected to be completed in August.
McAden said the one-story building will consist of five bays and is designed for office and retail/warehouse uses.
The Roanoke Commercial Industrial Investment Multiple Listing Service will meet at 8:15 a.m. Thursday at the Roanoker Restaurant. Doug Chittum, economic development specialist with Roanoke, will speak.
Stallings Construction Inc. of Danville has been penalized $1,000 for allowing an unlicensed contractor to build a house by using the Stallings name to get a building permit for the project.
The state Board for Contractors made the decision against Waverly Stallings in December. Stallings is a Class A contractor. Charles M. Ford, who is unlicensed, had Stallings' permission to use Stallings' name for the permit, the board said.
A West Coast landscape architect is among four speakers March 23-24 at the University of Virginia School of Architecture's symposium on regionalism.
Grant Jones of Seattle will speak at 8 p.m. Friday in Room 153 Campbell Hall on "Landscape Architecture: The Public Tapestry." Saturday, the symposium begins at 9:30 a.m. and continues until 4:30 p.m. Participants will include Gerald Allen, a New York architect whose projects have included the restoration of several sites in Central Park; W.G. Clark, chairman of the UVa School of Architecture; Ellen Dunham-Jones, UVa assistant professor of architecture; and Melanie Simo, landscape architecture writer and historian.
Information can be obtained from Jim Klein at UVa, 804-924-6438 or 924-3715.
by CNB