If approved by the Board of Supervisors as expected at its September 12 meeting, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation will be on their way to a $21 million loan to help finance the purchase, renovation and possible expansion of the former Beta Theta Pi frat house at 124 Maury Ave., near the intersection of JPA and […]
Lee Danielson is finally back in Charlottesville, though to what degree is still up in the air. Last week, public relations firm Payne, Ross & Associates announced that the boisterous developer has teamed up with Halsey Minor, a Charlottesville native who made good in the ‘net boom of the ’90s by founding CNET, to repurchase […]
The panel appointed by Governor Tim Kaine to investigate the April 16 incident at Virginia Tech released its findings and recommendations last week, and neither Tech nor the Commonwealth came out unscathed. Tech’s gaffes, according to the eight-member panel, include not connecting the dots to get mental health help for shooter Seung-Hui Cho and not […]
With the biggest residential development in county history, Biscuit Run, set for public hearing on September 12, and an election for three of the candidates who will be voting on the project set for November 6, we decided to put two and two together. C-VILLE gave each candidate 80 words to respond in writing to […]
Compared to the equipment rental company there now, or the CVS pharmacy that almost went there, the seven-story, 101' tall building proposed by Richmond developer Bob Englander would seem to be just what the city ordered.
At Buford Middle School, optimism was up this year even before parents found out that the school, for the first time in four years, met the performance goals imposed by the federal government. "The parents just seem to have a very positive reaction to the new principal [Eric Johnson], and to the school in general," […]
Like a child leaving the nest, negotiating with her parents for more autonomy, UVA is seeing that increased independence also means a stingier Daddy State-bucks. The Commonwealth fell short in its budget this year, and most state agencies are seeing cuts at around 5 percent. But UVA, as a school that has restructured its relationship […]
When C-VILLE spoke to J.R. Reynolds in March, he mentioned that he’d like to travel outside of the U.S. and live in another country. "I want to just go tour and talk to people and see what it’s like," said Reynolds, who at the time was finishing up a stellar basketball career at UVA, racking […]
A federal judge has ruled to allow a Nelson County real estate company to try again in a lawsuit alleging antitrust actions by the Wintergreen Resort and a local real estate company. U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon permitted Mountain Area Realty, a Nellysford-based firm, to file an amended complaint and, for now, tossed out […]
When the Rivanna Village at Glenmore came before the Albemarle County Planning Commission in March, neighboring residents showed up in force. Many expressed concern over the density of the project—521 units and 125,000 square feet of commercial space on 93 acres—and whether it might open up the possibility of even denser development down the line […]