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Roanoke County touts $75 million CTE center as part of school investments, leaves some details unspecified
Summary
Chairman David Radford said the county is investing $75 million in a new career-and-technical education (CTE) center expected to be completed in early 2027, but the address included inconsistent square-footage figures and offered no detailed implementation schedule.
David Radford said education remains a top county priority and highlighted a $75,000,000 county investment in a new career and technical education center, which he said was under construction and expected to be completed in early 2027.
Radford described the project as 'state-of-the-art' space that will connect classrooms to local career opportunities and said he attended the topping-out ceremony in September. The chairman also noted that more than $104,000,000 of the county budget goes to Roanoke County Public Schools and recognized outgoing Superintendent Ken Nicely and incoming Superintendent Jamie Soltis.
The address included two different square-footage figures for the new CTE facility (Radford cited "more than 123,000 square feet" in one passage and later said the new center "will have 34,000 square feet"). Those figures are inconsistent and were not resolved in the remarks; the county did not provide a clarifying document during the address.
Because the speech gave conflicting size figures, further reporting will require confirmation from county school officials or the county's capital projects team for the accurate project scope and timeline.
