Blacksburg Best Place to Live: The Town of Blacksburg was named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live by Livability. “The college town atmosphere in Blacksburg has helped foster affordable…”
Did you know there are movies filmed in the NRV? The sites of Virginia’s New River Valley are on the big screen. Sites in the Town of Blacksburg and Giles County are the set of Black Dispatch, a civil war era love story told by Director Shea Sizemore and Producer Chip White.
Blacksburg was named the no. 1 Safest City in Virginia for 2018 by the National Council for Home Safety and Security. According to alarms.org, Blacksburg averages just 0.97 violent crimes per 1,000 inhabitants.
If you’re looking for love in the NRV, you’re in the right place. Radford (#1) and Blacksburg (#6) were ranked some of the best places for singles in Virginia, according to homesnacks.net.
Chartio, a cloud-based data company out of San Francisco, is expanding to Downtown Blacksburg. Chartio’s new offices will be located in The Brownstone Building.
In a recently conducted survey by The Princeton Review, Virginia Tech students ranked the #19 happiest students on college campuses in the U.S.
Niche, a company that helps people find schools and communities, ranked the Virginia Tech campus as the No. 3 best college campus in the U.S.
Virginia’s New River Valley (The Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford MSA) ranks among the top metros that are attracting young professionals while maintaining an affordable cost of living.
Two companies in Montgomery County were awarded a total of $406,500 in grant money by The Port of Virginia Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant Program, which is made to facilitate the growth of the port by putting investment into maritime related business.
Blacksburg’s tailgating atmosphere embodies the New River Valley, a region defined by welcoming and inclusive small towns. In fact, in 2016, Virginia Tech and Blacksburg were ranked #6 for having great town-gown relations by the Princeton Review in response to their annual survey which asked students whether they got along with their local community.
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