
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 25, 1990                   TAG: 9005250437
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Mike Hudson
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TAP SIGNS OPTION ON BUILDING

Total Action Against Poverty has taken an option on a Jefferson Street building across from Hotel Roanoke with the idea of locating its new headquarters there.

The building is now occupied by Frame One, a wholesale framing business. Frame One's owner says he is looking for another site.

TAP officials have said they want to locate their headquarters in the Henry Street revival area near Hotel Roanoke. They say that would fit into Roanoke city officials' hopes to turn the area just across the railroad tracks into a mecca for nightlife, tourism and academic and business conferences.

TAP lost its headquarters on Shenandoah Avenue Northwest to a fire Dec. 23.

Calvin McDowell, a principal in Double Mac Corp., which owns the old Stone Printing Building occupied by Frame One, said TAP's 90-day option was signed about three weeks ago.

He said it includes the 53,000-square-foot, two-story building occupied by Frame One and an adjacent house and lot. It does not include a building on Wells that Frame One also uses.

McDowell said his business needs a single story building and this is a chance to move to one.

by CNB