Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 6, 1990 TAG: 9007040237
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Medium
The restaurant will close Sunday and will reopen Tuesday in its new location at 3600 Ramble Road, in the old International Pasta building behind Hokie Honda.
"There's no eating places out that way," said co-owner Wayne Garst. Everyone he's talked to, he said, has urged him to open up the steakhouse in south Blacksburg.
"We've kind of got a captive audience out there for a while" with the construction crews working on South Main Street, he said.
And many steakhouse regulars have told him they'd come out to the new, larger place and give it a try, said Garst, who owns the business with his partner, Keith Bolte.
They also decided to move because, "The building was getting run down, the rent kept going up and up, it was getting to the point where we were trading dollars."
The property on North Main Street has been on the market for two years, the most recent price listed at $439,000 - too much for the restaurateurs, Garst said.
The Virginia Tech Foundation, the Virginia Military Institute Foundation and a Roanoke individual each owned a piece of the land, said Tech spokesman Dave Nutter.
Tom King, whose partnership owns North Main Street Plaza where King Video is located, bought the site and is closing the deal, he said. King will use the site for offices and extra parking for the video store. Long-term plans are uncertain, but could include expanding the plaza, putting a new building on the site to rent out or expanding the plaza's parking lot, King said.
by CNB