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Virginia Business
October 2004
Cardinal
Glass chooses Vinton/Roanoke County for new facility
Cardinal Glass Industries, a Minnesota corporation,
is building a 220,000-square-foot manufacturing facility
to produce insulating glass in the Vinton Business Center,
a 100-acre park owned by the town of Vinton, but located
in eastern Roanoke County. During the project’s
first phase, Cardinal plans to invest $23.9 million
in the facility, creating as many as 70 jobs in the
region. The building is designed to accommodate a 102,000-square-foot
expansion that will be completed in a second phase over
the next five years, bringing the total investment to
$31.4 million. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn.,
Cardinal Glass is a producer of high-quality insulated
glass for the residential window industry. It operates
16 plants in the U.S. and has two additional facilities
currently under construction.
Integrity opens new $9 million plant in Roanoke
County
Integrity Windows and Doors, a maker of wood
windows and doors for the building industry, recently
celebrated the opening of its new 200,000-square-foot
manufacturing facility in the Valley Gateway Business
Park in Roanoke. The plant employs 75 and is expected
to create as many as 150 jobs by the end of 2005. The
Roanoke Valley was chosen over several other East Coast
locations to help the company establish a foothold in
the regional building market. The company cited several
reasons why they chose Roanoke: the close proximity
to major interstate highways; a highly-skilled workforce;
and a small-town culture that closely mirrors other
Integrity and Marvin manufacturing locations. It is
the second such facility for Integrity, which also operates
a 400,000-square-foot operation in Fargo, N.D. The company
is a subsidiary of Marvin Windows and Doors, a Minnesota-based
corporation that is the largest manufacturer of made-to-order
windows and doors in the world. Several members of the
Marvin family attended the grand opening, including
George Marvin, president of Integrity Windows and Doors.
O. Winston Link Museum opens in renovated downtown
rail station
A museum devoted to the work of acclaimed photographer
O. Winston Link opened in downtown Roanoke in the renovated
Norfolk & Western Railway’s passenger rail
station. The 15,000-square-foot museum houses the largest
collection of Link’s work, which mainly consists
of dramatically lit black and white prints of steam
locomotives and railroad towns. The collection includes
190 signed prints, 85 estate prints and all 2,400 of
Link’s original negatives. The museum also showcases
Link’s photographic equipment along with a collection
of historic N & W Railway artifacts. The downtown
renovation was the result of a partnership between the
History Museum and Historical Society of Western Virginia
and the Center in the Square. The entire project is
funded through public and private sources, including
government grants, foundation grants and corporate and
individual donors from around the world. The museum
is part of Roanoke’s plan to capitalize on its
railroad history.
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