Taxes are due in city and county on June 5, and as you’re struggling to make out that check, we’re wondering: How does the magic happen? How do those cats in the assessors office formulate the numbers that translate into our—and businesses’—fair share for county services? How much is Target worth? $12.8 million, according to […]
Construction around Culbreth Theatre has put the season on hold for the Heritage Repertory Theatre. With the student population diminished and the daylight extended, summer is the season for building. New homes for research, classes, cars and students are in the works. Don’t expect a lot of construction to wrap up this year, however—2008 looks […]
Fireworks danced again this year for the roughly 3,000 UVA alumni and family members who came back for reunion weekend from the 10 classes invited. It was the highest attendance yet for the weekend, which brings back classes at five-year intervals. While UVA has been graduating classes since the days of Jefferson, the official reunion […]
Fifeville tenant Michael Lannutti knew his landlords were selling their property at 918 Grove St. to a larger rental and development company, Grove Street Properties LLC. So he was pleasantly surprised to learn in February from the soon-to-be property manager Tim Slagle that he could stay on with only a slight rent increase. But two […]
How does the public pick a path for a new road? Most of those attending an initial meeting May 22 for the Eastern Connector couldn’t even tell you why we need the road in the first place. They asked: Why are we connecting Route 29 to Route 250 East? Why don’t we talk about better […]
The title is lost. We are no longer No. 1 in Cities: Ranked and Rated, the 2nd edition of the book put out by Frommer’s (guidebook of the upper-middle class tourists yearning to hit the respectable talking-point sites on the next family vacation). Charlottesville has fallen, in fact, to No. 17 in the list of […]
Many Crozetians like to have their world apart from Charlottesville. They have their own monthly newspaper, their own July 4 fireworks display and their own pizza. At their town-hall style meeting May 10, residents at the Crozet Community Association said they wanted their own recycling center—“not like the one in Charlottesville.” The Community Planning and […]
How open should an “open ideas” competition be? That’s the question at the center of a debate among city planners and members of a steering committee tasked with drawing up guidelines for the Water Street parking lots design competition. The City Market’s days on the Water Street parking lot may be numbered—but draft guidelines for […]
A national government watchdog with its home here in Charlottesville is getting two more big names for its Board of Trustees. Brit Hume and Dahlia Lithwick have joined the Board for the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the TJ Center announced May 15. The Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression doesn’t […]
Biscuit Run developers took six hours worth of lumps in March from the Planning Commission. But they’ve used the criticisms from the public and from the Commission to come back with a higher offer. “We went above and beyond what we thought the Planning Commission’s expectation was,” says Steven Blaine, the LeClair Ryan attorney who […]