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Along with Brian Townsend, her economic development aide from Norfolk, Burcham made it known that she wanted more highend residential neighborhoods in the city limits and set out to make it happen.
Where the valley’s best and brightest real estate developers – including some regional powerhouses like Fralin & Waldron, Boone Homes, Strauss Construction and others – had feared to tread, Burcham and Townsend, with council in tow, waded in. The years 2004 and 2005 saw Burcham plow into the real estate development business in Old Southwest, at Countryside Golf Course, at Wilton in South Roanoke.
In retrospect, her timing could not have been worse.
.. yes, i had forgotten that the City of Roanoke was acting as advocate for Boone & Loeb's stupid "Wilton" scheme. besides the folly of building half-million dollar bungalows behind the 220 Wal-Mart, there was also the side-effect of further marginalizing the historically black neighborhood of South Hills (Darlene Burcham: sponsor of ethnic cleansing?).
now it's her crony from Norfolk, Brian Townsend, seeking to drive the vendors from the City Market area. smooth move, Brian / what are you going to set up in its place? pull a Bobby Ukrop and lobby for an opera house? hell, the region refuses to support the already built Taubman Museum of Art (it's not that Roanokers are necessarily rubes, it's just that no one bothered to stock the new building with art [well, there is the Lady Taubman's collection of exotic handbags, but ..]).
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