Airport is a Roanoke,

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neighborhood located in north, central Roanoke surrounded roughly by

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to the south and by

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to the west, centered on the

Roanoke Regional Airport Roanoke may refer to: Places *Roanoke Colony, a former English colony that mysteriously disappeared *Roanoke Island, the location of the Roanoke colony in present-day North Carolina *Roanoke River, flowing through Virginia and North Carolina and e ...

. It borders the neighborhoods of Miller Court/Arrowood on the west, Roundhill on the south and Roanoke County on the north and east.

History

Annexed from Roanoke County in 1976, most development within the Airport neighborhood has been commercial in nature beginning with the opening of Crossroads Mall in 1961. Outside of the Roanoke Regional Airport property, the area remains primarily commercial and was also the location of the

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corporate headquarters.

References

External links

Williamson Road Area Plan
which includes the Airport neighborhood {{Roanoke neighborhoods Neighborhoods in Roanoke, Virginia