I think a more appropriate headline for your Sept. 28 issue, instead of "Moe's Opens for Business", would have been "Bland Chain: Only Business that can Afford Downtown Rents."
I'm not a city planner, but it seems like sometimes Tech and downtown realtors are going to have to work something out or downtown Blacksburg is going to end up looking like a Northern Virginia shopping mall instead of a charming and unique university town.
Matt Ames
Ph.D student, Instructional Design and Technology