As the new year dawns, a downtown Roanoke landmark will be reborn as a hotel, music venue and eatery.
Plans for The Exchange Music Hall were unveiled Friday, the newest addition to a $10 million project transforming the old First National Exchange Bank. The venue will share space with The Promissory, a 27-room boutique hotel, and ¡Suerte!, a Spanish restaurant helmed by local restaurateur J.P. Powell.
The neoclassical granite building on Jefferson Street, with its tall marble columns and stone lions, was built in 1912. It sat vacant after the bank closed in 2016, until Roanoke developer Lucas Thornton and partners began their ambitious renovation project…