Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 7, 1990 TAG: 9007070381
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MARK LAYMAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
One city councilman - Vice Mayor Beverly Fitzpatrick - has expressed concern about the possibility that TAP will buy the old Stone Printing Co. building on North Jefferson Street, now occupied by Frame One. TAP has taken an option on that building; the option expires July 20.
The building is next to the Norfolk Southern Corp.'s old office buildings, the recommended site for a convention and trade center tied to the Hotel Roanoke.
Fitzpatrick has said the convention center could become "landlocked" if TAP moves into the Stone Printing Co. building.
Friday's meeting was closed to reporters. But the city's public information officer, Michelle Bono, said the group discussed the possibility of TAP purchasing the city's Booker T. Washington school administration building or constructing a new building on Henry Street on property partly owned by the city's Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
The purchase of the Booker T. Washington building would be contingent on the school administration offices moving to the old Jefferson High School in a couple of years.
The TAP administrators asked the city for more information on those options.
The group, which includes council members Howard Musser, David Bowers and Elizabeth Bowles, will meet again next Friday.
TAP's old headquarters on Shenandoah Avenue Northwest was destroyed by fire two days before Christmas.
by CNB