The Roanoke Region is where people want to live, work, and play more than ever.
Population growth from 2019 to 2020 almost quadrupled the average annual rate over the last decade in the Roanoke Region, growing by nearly 1,500 people during that time. Population is up 0.45% in one year which is 3.9 times the average rate of annual growth from 2010 to 2020, according to data from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
They say that what you see depends on where you sit. Yet with less than a month in the executive director seat, I already can see important ways the Partnership will help influence the kind of opportunities we all envision.
For the second year, Roanoke is the Top Adventure Town winner in the annual ranking from Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine.
Roanoke edged out Chattanooga and Asheville for the win.
McAirlaid’s of Franklin County and TMEIC Corporation in Roanoke County and Salem have been accepted in the Virginia Economic Development Partnership’s two-year Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) program.
