Flat Rock Grille, Texas Steakhouse demolished to make room for hotel
Flat Rock Grille and Texas Steakhouse have been demolished to make room for a hotel. Photo by Amanda Codispoti
The Flat Rock Grille and Texas Steakhouse restaurants at Valley View were torn down this week as a developer gets ready to build a Hampton Inn & Suites.
Once the debris is cleared, workers will import dirt to level the site and put in underground utilities, according to Charlie Byers, general manager of Thomas Properties, the Tennessee-based developer building the hotel.
Byers expects that workers will begin laying the foundation next week.
Construction “will go fairly fast,” Byers said. The 126-room, five-story hotel will open within a year.
A building permit filed in Roanoke values the construction at $10.8 million.
The hotel will sit on about 2.5 acres of land where the restaurants were located. Flat Rock Grille closed in 2008 after the owners filed for bankruptcy. Texas Steakhouse closed October 2011.
November 30, 2012 - 5:00 AM
on an unrelated note, do you know what is being built on Melrose sort of across the street from Krispy Kreme?
@Shelli: I’ll have to look into it.
The building at Roanoke Salem Plaza will be yet another Dollar General…
Family Dollar had a sign up a month or so ago across from Krispy Kreme. I would assume that’s what it is.
@shelli: Bigdog and Bradley are correct. It is a Family Dollar store. I wrote about it a few months ago, but it wasn’t until I drove out there today and saw where it was that I remembered.
Isn’t the new downtown hotel also supposed to be a Hampton Inn & Suites? Also, will the construction of this new property have any effect on the Hampton Inn & Suites on Thirlane Rd?
Shame that Family Dollar couldn’t occupy space in the partially empty Roanoke Salem Plaza…instead of building a new building in the parking lot. Seems wasteful to me…but it’s their money…
Does anyone know what is being build on Williamson Road?
@Blue Ridge Foodie: Yes, the hotel proposed for downtown Roanoke is a Hampton Inn & Suites. Here’s a story the paper published in August about it. The hotels are usually franchises (about 98 percent of Hampton properties are franchises, according to the company’s websites) so I don’t think it will an affect on the Hampton Inn on Thirlane.
@Tim: Where on Williamson Road?
Another hotel? guess Roanoke is just a huge vacation spot
Roanoke needed another hotel group instead of Hampton , something new not in the area to lure business and personal travelers.Not sure who, just saying!!
In Rocky Mount area, is the new building next to Sheetz going to be a Taco Bell?
It is such a shame they tore down that beautiful, hardly used building that flat rock was in. What a waste!
I’m curious on the construction on Williamson Road also. It is beginning to look like yet another CVS pharmacy?
THE BUILDING ACROSS FROM 7-11 WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSE TO BE DOLLAR GENERAL BUT THEY LATER DECIDED TO BUILD ON MELROSE MY RELIABLE SOURCES TOLD ME IT IS A DOLLAR TREE AND THATS WHAT CITY RECORDS HAVE !!!
Tim is asking about the building going up across from the 7-11 near the Liberty Road intersection. Looks like a CVS / Walgreens type building
Hey Amanda! Back in June, you had posted the following article concerning the Kroger gas station on Peters Creek (right off 581).
http://blogs.roanoke.com/storefront/2012/06/construction-on-kroger-gas-station-to-start-in-july/
In the article, you stated that it “should be open by the middle of October.” However, here we are and it’s beginning of December! I went by there a couple of times in the past couple of weeks and it looks almost ready, but I didn’t know when it’d be open (I REALLY would like to know because it’s not far from my house and would be more convenient than trying to go to the one by Crossroads, where the traffic is kinda crazy). Thanks!!!
The new building on Williamson Rd near the gas stations is an urgent care/physician office. I have not clue what’s being built on the other end near the 7/11′s – looks like a garage kind of construction.
those buildings weren’t old. the interior has, err had, lots of nice things inside of them. nearly all of it was reusable and as nice or nicerthan what many people have in their homes, what happens to all of it? is it wasted by being thrown in the trash?
I think Tim means the building sorta near New Yorker and 7/11 on Williamson Rd, there used to be a nursing home there at one point I believe….I was told that its going to be a Dollar General Market, not sure if that rumor is true or not though!! Thanks you all for the info about whats going in at the Rke/Salem Plaza!!
@Other Kristen: The Kroger fuel center opened a few days ago. I am planning a blog post on that for Monday.
@dennis: I believe I saw a lot of that stuff being hauled out before the buildings were torn down. But to be sure, I can ask the developer what they are doing with the materials and get back to you.
@Mike3: I’ll call on it Monday and get back to you.
Southern Manor Residential and Assisted Living on Williamson Road (across from 7-Eleven) was torn down in 2010 to make room for a Dollar General store. But according to a building permit filed earlier this year, it will now be a Dollar Tree.
@Mike3: The new building you saw in Rocky Mount next to Sheetz is for Cook Out. The woman I spoke with in the town’s planning and zoning department told me it might be open by Christmas.
@dennis: I talked with Charlie Byers, who works for the development company building the hotel. He said that they salvaged what they could. For instance, the equipment was sold to a local restaurant equipment supplier. They didn’t salvage any building materials, though. Those went to the landfill.
Do you know what is going in at 5610 Williamson Road? It used to be an empty restaurant for a long time. Thanks!
@Shelly: I will have to call the county on Monday to see what they can tell me. Have you seen work going on there?
@Shelly: I’m back with an answer to your question about 5610 Williamson Road. The old restaurant (King Buffet) was demolished. The new building is for MedExpress, an urgent care center, which should be opening soon.
Hi Amanda! Do you know what company will be managing the new Hampton Inn at ValleyView? Or could I possibly get any contact info for Charlie Byers to see if he knows? Thanks!
@melissab: I will email you.