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The firm maintained a Roanoke workforce of 4,400 by 1940, second in employment size in the area only to the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W), with 7,000. [3] In 1940, American Viscose was sold by Courtaulds to a group of U.S. investors, with 90% of the proceeds from the sale going to the English government to help pay for wartime needs. [9]
Efforts by the county led to the company rebuilding and reopening its facility in 2014 with 125 jobs. By 2014 a focus on job creation brought additional business operations and 300 more jobs to the county and resulted in an unemployment rate of only 6.9%. [18] By April 2019, the unemployment rate had plummeted to just 2.6%. [19]
Roanoke is the largest city along both the Appalachian Trail, which runs through Roanoke County just north of the city, [61] and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs just south of the city. [62] Carvins Cove , the third-largest municipal park in America at 12,700 acres (51 km 2 ), lies in northeast Roanoke County and southwest Botetourt County ...
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In March 2015, Joseph McNamara—who was appointed as vice president for the stations three months earlier in December 2014—announced that Nexstar planned to move WFXR/WWCW's operations and staff into a new, larger 14,830-square-foot (1,000 m 2) studio facility at the Valleypointe office park in northeastern Roanoke County, near Roanoke ...