Over the last 18 months or so, half of the homes on this dead-end street have sold, according to online real estate records. Through a patchy barrier of trees, the homeowners on the even-numbered side have had a very different view from their backyards: a vast expanse of asphalt bisected by construction fences and populated by delivery trucks and workers in hardhats – a sight that developers hope will give way to a steady stream of cars carrying blackjack fans and slots players 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Īs the old Bristol Mall has transformed into the new Bristol Casino, the neighborhood around Veda Drive has become a microcosm of the changes brought across the city by the announcement of a $400 million gaming and entertainment complex.
The properties on the odd-numbered side of Veda back up to houses on neighboring Everett Street. BRISTOL – Veda Drive runs for not quite a fifth of a mile through a neighborhood of small houses on the west end of Bristol, on the Virginia side of the city.
