If you want Charlottesville to have its own version of the Flatiron building, sometimes you just have to do it yourself. Developer Neal Sansovich, employing local architecture firm Daggett & Grigg, has submitted a preliminary siteplan for a mixed-use, nine-story building on a small, triangular lot at 600 E. Water St., currently a parking lot […]
In order to win special-use permits for a 100-unit, high-end condo project at 201 Avon St., New York-based architect Randolph Croxton spent dozens of hours last year before various city boards, from the Board of Architectural Review (BAR) to City Council. Long conversations took place—with the BAR on the materials and the exterior aesthetics, with […]
Best use of an apology: Hunter Craig. The county Planning Commission unanimously recommended denial the first time around on…
Once upon a time, one of the area’s most rollicking controversies was the Western Bypass, a six-mile stretch of road proposed to help through-traffic on Route 29 from D.C. to Lynchburg avoid the crawl through strip-mall hell. Meetings were held, letters were written, an endangered species was found, lawsuits were filed. Even as recently as […]
Few in the criminal justice system who first encountered Frank E. Brown Jr. thought he was going to make it through the Charlottesville/Albemarle Drug Court Program.
As outrage mellows to acceptance during the development review process, only the dedicated opponents continue to pipe up at public meetings. On July 24, the Albemarle County Planning Commission considered rezoning 87 acres just north of I-64 for a big-box shopping center. While in the past citizens for and against the project have shown up, […]
When developer Wendell Wood of United Land Corporation addressed the county Planning Commission at their July 10 meeting, he said that the client that would lease the 180,000 square feet of office space and the 120-unit apartment building would be the government, presumably on behalf of the adjacent National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC). C-VILLE did […]
Hollymead Town Center might well get its, well, town center. Of the five areas of Hollymead, two areas are almost all commercial and two are almost all residential. Only Area A-2, as it’s known in the planning process, is truly designed to be mixed-use, with 1,222 residential units and 364,000 square feet of commercial space. […]
The item on the consent agenda for City Council’s July 30 meeting doesn’t seem to warrant much notice: "Appropriation: $439,000—Transfer from Housing Initiatives Fund to Piedmont Housing Alliance/Habitat for Humanity." At every meeting, money, much of it in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, gets shuffled into and out of city coffers, and Council this […]
This event, April 16, was the 9/11 for colleges and universities across the country," said Phil Schaenman, staff director for the