Danville’s planning commission will consider two items that would allow a Floyd Street building renovation project.

The hotel and casino are at 1100 W Main Street, Danville, Va., just off U.S. 29 Business. It’s the site of the former Dan River ... largest single-unit textile factory in the world.

I grew up on Lee Street in Danville, Virginia, the last capital of the ... a few dozen U.S. Colored Troops—free blacks and former slaves who had fought for the Union—were segregated in death ...

Earlier this month, I drove from my office in the booming tech hub of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to nearby Danville, Virginia ... by shuttered textile factories and the hollowing ...