Friendship wants to rezone 10 acres on Starkey Road to accommodate a proposed 120-bed, $16.8 million nursing home. The rezoning application, filed Friday, comes as the nonprofit organization has also asked the state to allow it to reduce the size of its existing facility on Hershberger Road in Roanoke County by moving 120 of its 363 beds to the proposed site.

The retirement community is hosting a meeting at 6 p.m. tonight at the South County Library to provide the first look at the plans for the single-story, 68,471-square-foot facility.

To read more about the plans, see the story by Sarah Bruyn Jones here.