
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 5, 1993                   TAG: 9308050173
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: RADFORD                                LENGTH: Short

NO AT&T SITE ACTION TAKEN AT PRIVATE MEETING

The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors and Radford City Council met privately for about 40 minutes Tuesday night to discuss the former AT&T site but took no action when they emerged from their closed joint session.

"I'd say we accomplished a lot," remarked Polly Corn of Radford City Council, but nobody elaborated and no follow-up sessions between the two governing bodies were scheduled.

The purpose of the meeting was to explore opportunities for developing the acreage as a regional industrial park.

They held an earlier joint closed-door session in Pulaski shortly after the county bought the remaining 650 acres of the tract near Fairlawn for $1.3 million early this year. New River Industries had purchased the former AT&T building and about 80 acres around it a few months earlier.

AT&T had a plant at the site until it closed in 1990.

The governmental representatives shared a meal in a private room at the Best Western Radford Inn before going into closed session.

Radford Mayor Tom Starnes said city officials will gather some information for any future discussions "if and when we meet again . . . That hasn't been established."

"It was a very good meal," Board of Supervisors Chairman Jerry White said afterward when asked about the meeting.

by CNB