South Jefferson is a
Roanoke,
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
neighborhood located in southeast Roanoke, surrounded roughly by the
Roanoke River
The Roanoke River ( ) runs long through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Ap ...
to the south and east and the
Roy L. Webber Expressway to the west, centered on South Jefferson Street. It borders the neighborhoods of
Old Southwest on the west,
Belmont and
Downtown on the north, and
Riverland/Walnut Hills via the Walnut Street Bridge on the east.
History
Historically serving various industrial activities, in May 2000 the South Jefferson area was identified as the ''South Jefferson Redevelopment Area'' by the City of Roanoke.
The area is seeing significant redevelopment including the construction of the
Carilion Clinic campus and the
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...
Carilion School of Medicine.
References
External links
South Jefferson Redevelopment Area
{{Roanoke neighborhoods
Neighborhoods in Roanoke, Virginia