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

DATE: SUNDAY, January 29, 1995                   TAG: 9501310076
SECTION: STREET BY STREET                    PAGE: 9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: MARY BISHOP STAFF WRITER
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THE LOSS STILL STINGS

By 1981, though, City Council had changed its direction on Gainsboro yet again: Now it said it would try to save what was left of Gainsboro's soundest buildings.

Another consulting firm, the city's fourth on Gainsboro, suggested creating a new citizens' group that would have legal standing as a developer in the neighborhood. The new group, the Gainsboro Neighborhood Development Corp., would have the authority to enter into contracts in hopes the project could make more progress.

The consultants said the city should save an old building that once housed the area's YMCA. Fire struck the building later, and it was torn down.

The consultants also recommended saving the Gainsboro home of the Claytors, a medical family.

by CNB