n the summer of 2009, a six-story, $60 million sports condominium hotel will rise on South Main Street in Blacksburg.
Dubbed The Colosseum and marketed as luxury-loaded must-haves for affluent Virginia Tech sports fans, the project’s 172 units will be priced to sell from the $170,000s to low $800,000s.
Fully furnished and equipped with wedding space, private [...]

Most units bought as second homes
Columbia’s downtown condo market is starting to define itself.
First, condos are selling, slowly but steadily.
Second, the strongest pre-construction sales are of moderately priced two-bedroom condos, from $175,000 to $350,000.
And third, the second-home market is leading the trend.

A five-floor, 66-unit condo building could be the latest in a string of new developments just south of the city’s historic downtown area along South Main Street.
But the Katy Trail Lofts proposal has stalled at City Hall amid opposition from some nearby residents and businesses who contend that it would be too high and large [...]

The state has approved a 100-unit condominium project in Natick that would include 25 intended for low-income residents.
Trask Development Inc. of Southborough submitted preliminary plans to the town last fall for the South Main Street project, but has been waiting for approval from the state agency that administers affordable housing programs.
The letter arrived last week, [...]