POFF BUILDING RENOVATION What $82 Million Can (And Didn't) Do to a $14 Million Structure BY MASON ADAMS The 2009 Stimulus Act fired $51 million toward a "shovelready" renovation project in downtown Roanoke. The lack of aim before the money was sent has contributed to massive cost overruns, to tenants who find the building worse than before, to a red-faced GSA and to one Congressman who has kept the whistle blowing on the project since 2010. This rendering of the Poff Building ran in the first Roanoker, as construction was underway. 52 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 THE R OANOKER.COM