The River District Association has been designated as an accredited Main Street program for meeting rigorous performance standards.
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Danville is one of the top eight communities with a shot at winning an award for revitalization of its commercial district.
Catherine Carter opened Dog-Eared Page Bookshop on Main Street in downtown Danville.
Lee Vogler and James Buckner say rules are outmoded.
GRETNA — Phase one of the Gretna walking trail, which extends from Centra Gretna Medical Center to the Gretna Industrial Park, finally has ope…
A historic preservation group hopes that renovating an aging apartment complex on Jefferson Avenue — declared unfit for human occupancy — will…
GRETNA — Cruising down Industrial Street on Thursday afternoon, Lou Davis gestured to the areas a local organization plans to construct a walk…
It seems the revitalization efforts in the River District, as well as Danville’s support for the historic tax credits meant to spur on redevel…
The continued growth of Danville’s River District, revitalization of downtown Chatham and broadband access in Pittsylvania County dominated the State of the Region address and breakfast Tuesday at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research.
A community organization began searching for money Tuesday to expand the walking trail being built behind Gretna Middle School. heir first stop? Crowdfunding.
In early November, the Danville Regional Foundation (DRF) celebrated 10 years of revitalization and transformation in the Dan River Region sur…
On Friday, the new image for the River District will be debuted with a community party. However, the large event would be nothing if not for the many years of revitalization efforts that led up to it.
More than $5 million has been spent on Danville’s blight eradication program since 2012 when a housing study showed the city had about 2,000 houses that were deteriorating, unoccupied and/or abandoned.
In the mid to late 1980s Denver experienced a severe financial downturn, leaving the Lower Downtown district, which had been neglected in the recent boom of new construction, boarded up and blighted.
A historic home in Gretna that houses a restaurant is among 10 sites across the state that have been added to the Virginia Landmarks Register.
There are a lot of similarities between Lynchburg’s downtown development project and Danville’s River District revitalization project.
There are a lot of similarities between Lynchburg’s downtown development project and Danville’s River District revitalization project.
Danville Regional Foundation sees something missing in the River District: art. Now the organization wants to do something about it.
Danville Mayor Sherman Saunders stressed the importance of workforce training, regional cooperation and continued River District revitalization during his “State of the Region” speech Tuesday morning.
The city of Danville won major kudos this week for its work in the River District.
I’m new to Danville. In fact I’m relatively new to the South.
Recently I spoke to a group of graduate students about how the 2010 community read of the book “Switch” (by Dan and Chip Heath) jump started a period of positive change in Danville.
One of the unique things about local governments in Virginia is also one of the most misunderstood — the office of mayor.
About 18 months ago, the Danville Regional Foundation took Danville City Council and other city leaders on a trip to Greenville, S.C., to see …