ROANOKE (Jan. 30, 2019) – The Mast General Store, a family of stores based in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, is coming to Downtown Roanoke.
The location will be inside the Heironimus Building, at 401 South Jefferson Street. Originally constructed as a furniture store in 1905, the Heironimus Department Store took over the building in 1915 and remained a part of downtown until 1996.
The Roanoke Regional Partnership assisted on 10 expansion and location projects in 2018 representing 366 new jobs, 286 secondary jobs, and $308 million in new investment.
What do employers think about the state of the workforce? Your input is needed to help fuel this research.
The Virginia SkillsBelt project will gather information about the quality and availability of the workforce in a 55-county region; the results will be used in efforts to create new jobs and investment, as well as improve quality of life for residents.
The Roanoke Innovation Corridor is featured in this month’s edition of Site Selection magazine.
The feature highlights the expansions taking place at Carilion and Virginia Tech as well as other nearby innovation assets, such as the Radford University Waldron College of Health and Human Services and RAMP Regional Accelerator.
