Tanglewood Mall Renovated Space Will House Carilion Children's Outpatient Practices

Today we announced that we have leased 150,000 square feet of space at Tanglewood Mall in Roanoke County. The space will become home to outpatient practices of Carilion Children’s and may house other clinical services in the future as well.

“After years of adding more and more specialized pediatric services for our community, we’re excited to have a new home for those services,” said Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO. “More than a dozen pediatric and adolescent specialties are represented at Carilion now. This development will help us make access easier for our patients and their families.”

The Tanglewood Mall space was appealing because it offered two important benefits to patients: it is centrally located and has plenty of parking available. It will allow Children’s to consolidate outpatient specialty practices, thereby improving coordination among those practices.

“This is an exciting day for Carilion Children’s,” said Dr. Kimberly Dunsmore, chair of pediatrics. “This new facility will set the stage as pediatric care in our region continues to transform and grow. Our goal remains the same: to provide specialized care, close to home, for the children in our community who depend on it.”

Extensive renovation of the space will be required and should begin this fall. Practices that will move to the new facility are still being determined. The new Carilion Children’s location will be up and running in 18 to 24 months.

“We’re thrilled to have Carilion Children’s as our new anchor tenant at Tanglewood Mall,” said John Abernathy, president of Blackwater Resources, the owner of Tanglewood Mall. “And we can’t wait to see the community of merchants who will grow around Carilion’s development.”

The leased space we will fill was last occupied in 2018 by J.C. Penney and Miller Motte Technical College.

“Carilion has long been a good partner of ours in Roanoke County,” said Phil North, chairman of the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors. “Their investment at Tanglewood Mall will no doubt spark additional investment by others. It’s an exciting time to be living and working in this region.”

The renovation project at Tanglewood Mall is expected to cost $30 million. This project is included in the estimated $1 billion re-investment we will make in our communities during the next seven years, as we announced in May 2019.

We will request proposals from architects and general contractors for this project.