The Lynchburg Neighborhood Newsletter #4 - February 11, 2020
The Lynchburg Neighborhood Newsletter #4 - February 11, 2020
Real Estate
A roundup of recent real estate stories, news, and links that you need to know:
Flowers Food to Invest $25 Million in Lynchburg Bakery (News & Advance)
Bookstore Opening Next to Wards Road Hobby Lobby (News & Advance)
Earth Fare, a high-end grocer with Roanoke location, to Close Stores (Roanoke Times)
Forest Truck Business Expanding & Adding 61 Jobs (News & Advance)
Wards Road Jimmy John's Restaurant Closes (WSET)
Champion Brewery Coming to Main Street in Downtown Lynchburg (News & Advance)
Genworth Relocating All Remaining Downtown Employees to Albert Lankford Drive Location (News & Advance)
TEVA Moving Forward with Plant Closure (WDBJ 7)
Housing Advocates Working on an Eviction Database (News & Advance)
Lynchburg Planning Commission Recommends Approval of Conditional Use Permit for Proposed Florida Terrace Project by Rush Homes (News & Advance)
Editorial Highlighting the Work of Rush Homes (News & Advance)
The Shoppes at Madison Heights, a 17,120 SF retail strip center, have sold (News & Advance)
Even After the Bedford Middle School Fire, Developer Plans to Move Forward with Project (WDBJ 7)
174 Norfolk Avenue Available For Sale or Lease (Hansen Realty Advisors website)
Good Stuff
Lynchburg Getting Some Love from a Statewide Publication (Virginia Business)
Bedford Restores Original Name for Historic African American School (News & Advance)
Woodruff's Pie Shop to be Featured on Today Show (News & Advance)
Lynchburg Neighborhood Podcast
Episode 13: Dr. Owen Cardwell, Jr. - In January 1962, Owen Cardwell, Jr. and Lynda Woodruff made history by desegregating E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg, Virginia. This new episode of the Lynchburg Neighborhood Podcast is a conversation with Dr. Owen Cardwell, Jr. about his life, his work, desegregation, and Lynchburg in the 1960s.
Episode 14: Anne Spencer - Anne Spencer was a Harlem Renaissance poet who lived right here in Lynchburg, Virginia at 1313 Pierce Street from 1903 to 1975. In that home, Anne raised a family, tended a garden, wrote poetry on the walls and in her writing cottage, and hosted some of the greatest African American thinkers, artists, and leaders of the 20th century. Anne's granddaughter, Shaun Spencer Hester, is now the director of the Anne Spencer Museum. In our conversation, Shaun and I talk about her grandmother's life, her home, her poetry, and her love of nasturtiums. Shaun also tells us about her father, Chauncey Spencer, and how he broke down racial barriers in aviation.
Listen here at lynchburgneighborhood.com, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Billy Hansen, MAI
Principal Broker & Commercial Real Estate Appraiser
Hansen Realty Advisors, LLC
434-942-2245
billy@hansenrealtyadvisors.com
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