Claude Moore Education Complex,
Roanoke, Va
Investment Amount: $6,200,000
Closing Date: May 2006
Adaptive and reuse redevelopment of an 83-year-old historic theater that housed the offices of celebrated African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in the 1920s, into a state-of-the-art culinary school with catering and banquet facilities to be administered by the Roanoke Higher Education Center, a consortium of 14 Virginia colleges and universities. Project is located directly across the street from the Dumas Center for Artistic & Cultural Development.