Sean Tubbs, Author at C-VILLE Weekly

UVA Board of Visitors to meet this week over two private development projects

The governing body of the area’s largest landowner will meet this week with five new members, at least one of whom has significant experience in real estate. Governor Glenn Youngkin’s latest appointees to the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors begin their terms at a time when two private, recently approved student developments are moving […]

Sean Tubbs | September 11, 2024

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Closing arguments filed in challenge to city’s new zoning code

The waiting game continues for a lawsuit filed earlier this year that seeks to nullify Charlottesville’s new zoning code. A group of residents filed suit against Charlottesville in January alleging that city officials failed to follow state guidelines to study the impacts higher residential density allowed in the Development Code would have on transportation infrastructure. […]

Sean Tubbs | September 4, 2024

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Project Julius to help Home Depot’s redevelopment of Fashion Square Mall

Shortly after the signalized intersection at Rio Road and U.S. 29 was converted to an underpass in July 2016, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors adopted a small area plan to encourage redevelopment of the immediate area to be more dense to meet the needs of the 21st century. “The plan identifies the Rio Road/29 […]

Sean Tubbs | August 28, 2024

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The city’s first large student apartment complex on West Main turns 10

With the University of Virginia back in session next week, students are returning to Charlottesville—including the several hundred who live at 852 W. Main St. The first residents of the building known as The Flats at West Village moved in 10 years ago, beginning a trend of students moving into an area where they had […]

Sean Tubbs | August 21, 2024

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A dangerous Charlottesville intersection could become more crowded

If implemented as planners hope, Charlottesville’s new development rules will provide more places for people to live by making it easier for builders to navigate the process. Less certain is what will happen when more of those homes are constructed on a road network with known areas of concern. Perhaps one of the most dangerous […]

Sean Tubbs | August 14, 2024

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Chamber of Commerce to relocate after downtown building is sold

For more than four decades, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has operated at the corner of East Market Street and Fifth Street NW just down the hill from the former Monticello Hotel. Now that property is on the market as the chamber continues a search for a new place to advance its mission in […]

Sean Tubbs | August 7, 2024

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Businesses near the much-debated Belmont Bridge hopeful for a comeback

Both Project Gait-Way and the Belmont Vortex created ways for planners to dream up ideas for the urban landscape around Avon Street. Since 2011, there have been many transformations while the new bridge and street layout awaited construction. In December 2014, what had previously been used as a hair salon and then a small […]

Sean Tubbs | July 31, 2024

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A brief history of the two-decade process to replace the Belmont Bridge

On a warm morning in late June, City Manager Sam Sanders presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Belmont Bridge, a $38 million project that for a time served as another chapter in Charlottesville’s resistance to infrastructure for motorized vehicles. “There are many who didn’t believe that this would actually happen,” Sanders said to […]

Sean Tubbs | July 31, 2024

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Two apartment complexes planned for either side of Albemarle/ Charlottesville border

What happens when you build a pair of apartment buildings with hundreds of residents each on the busiest highway in the Charlottesville area? The community will find out in a couple of years if two proposed developments make their way through the process. On July 16, the Albemarle Planning Commission held a public hearing on […]

Sean Tubbs | July 24, 2024

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Undeveloped land on major highway into Charlottesville up for grabs

Charlottesville’s new zoning code, which went into effect in February, opens up potential for a much more urban landscape with higher buildings and increased residential density. The updated rules provide a new lens to speculate what might happen with some of the last undeveloped parcels across the city. Earlier this month, signs were placed at […]

Sean Tubbs | July 17, 2024