A house with frontage on the four-lane Gate City Highway sold last summer for $324,500, nearly four times its assessed value. Another property recently went under contract after just two days on the market if previous sales were any indication, this one, too, probably will become an Airbnb rental. 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.