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

DATE: THURSDAY, September 1, 1994                   TAG: 9409010067
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV1   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: STEPHEN FOSTER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                 LENGTH: Short

RETIREMENT COMMUNITY IS MEETING TOPIC

A public information meeting will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. today at the Blacksburg Community Center on a proposed 1,500-unit retirement community to be built in Montgomery County and the northwest part of town.

Since it was announced two weeks ago, backers of the project say there have been few developments in the project, other than the continuance of discussions with town and county officials about the rezoning process that would have to happen for the project to proceed.

The developers envision a community of seven villages spread over 300 acres - 56.5 in Blacksburg - with various types of homes, apartments, a recreation center and some commercial facilities. Boundaries for the site would be Mount Tabor Road to the North, Harding Avenue to the south and North Main Street to the west.

Bob Rogers, an architect with Architectural Alternatives Inc. who is working on preliminary designs for the as yet unnamed community, said there will be drawings of the site with the proposed villages, diagrams of planned greenway linkages, and depictions of the developments planned along North Main Street and Harding Avenue, the site's two main entrance points.

He said the meeting will be basically informal, with short formalized presentations held at 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

In addition to Rogers, among those who will be available for questions are: Wendell White, the project manager, Joe Farr and possibly Joe Edone, the two Floyd County developers who hold options on the land.

by CNB