Local developer Wendell Wood (United Land Corporation) badgered the Board of Supervisors to make an exception for him and fast track a change to his project for the National Ground Intelligence Center. The supervisors told him to wait or show them a contract that proves the space has to be occupied by January.Will Yancey formally […]
Tom Perriello, the Democratic challenger for the Fifth District congressional seat, went on the attack against incumbent Republican Virgil Goode on September 3 during a debate in Danville before a crowd of more than 300. He attacked Goode’s effectiveness as a congressman: “Southside has not been getting its fair slice under Congressman Goode. The numbers […]
Wondering why school buses are shuttling Hoos from Downtown to the football games this year instead of the usual Charlottesville Transit Service (CTS) buses? It’s not because the city schools are taking over the duty to raise funds or because the yellow is supposed to be a closer proxy to the Cavalier orange. Rather it’s […]
The UVA athletic department decided to go “retro†for Saturday’s football contest against Richmond. The players wore the electric orange jerseys of two decades prior. Michael Jackson and Different Light were blasted through the speakers at Scott Stadium before the game, and during halftime, the marching band moved through a medley of ’80s songs from Phantom of the Opera and Top Gun.
Tom Perriello, Democratic challenger for the Fifth District congressional seat, went on the attack against incumbent Republican Virgil Goode last night during a debate in Danville before a crowd of more than 300.
The financial foundations of the Landmark Hotel, the nine-story building rising on the Downtown Mall, may be shakier than they appear. Bloomberg.com is reporting that Halsey Minor, a principle investor in the Landmark Hotel, is being sued by Sotheby’s auction house for not paying $16.8 million for several art works, including Edward Hicks’ “Peaceable Kingdom.†Minor bought the painting in May for $9.6 million.
Martha Jefferson Hospital is in the process of narrowing the list of potential partners to redevelop its 13.6-acre Downtown campus, the biggest city project in decades and one that promises to significantly alter the landscape of Charlottesville. The hospital issued a request for developer qualifications (RFQ) that came due August 29, and spokesman Steve Bowers […]
Before she could renovate her newly purchased home on Park Street, Therese Elron had to win over the city Board of Architectural Review (BAR). She weathered two meetings and dozens of questions about trim, brick patterns and the width of railing. “Are you going to paint your downspouts?” asked BAR member Bill Adams at the […]
Local property manager and developer Keith Woodard has expanded his empire, buying the former Virginia Work Force building at 400 Preston Ave. from the Commonwealth of Virginia for just over $3 million. “We feel that the purchase and renovation of 400 Preston Avenue gives us the opportunity to contribute to and be part of the […]
If anyone out there is lying awake at night, wondering whether those little undergraduate darlings at UVA are imbibing in a few nips of Grandpa’s cough medicine,