Newsplex buys new building
The Charlottesville Newsplex, which operates CBS 19, ABC 16 and Fox 27, has only been in town since 2004, but already they’ve grown too cramped in their current quarters. On April
Supes hunt for development’s fair share
“Development isn’t paying its fair share.” So goes one of the primary arguments against allowing developers to build new houses. Assuming new houses usually bring new people, each sprawling subdivision brings more cars for the roads and more kids for the school system and more bodies in the parks and more books from the libraries […]
City rethinks its height
Perhaps it would have taken genius to have written perfect zoning when the city reworked its code to encourage high-density mixed-use development throughout the city’s corridors in 2003. After a series of plans for tall buildings has come forward for Downtown, as well as some inappropriately small structures, city planners are hunting for the Baby […]
Parkway interchange design gets support
The four-decade debate on the Meadowcreek Parkway has a new image: Interchange Alternative C1, which could also be known as The Rotund Roundabout.
Imagine a world…
Gather ’round, proud citizens of Charlottesville, and hear tell of a golden land that your city leaders have envisioned. Imagine a world where every worker has a well-paying, career-ladder job. Where every student is a success, and learning is lifelong. Where housing is affordable and attainable. In this new shining city, all take part in […]
Martha Jefferson looks to 2012
Martha Jefferson Hospital won’t vacate its nine-acre Downtown property for Pantops pastures until 2012, but hospital officials have already gotten the ball rolling on what will take its place.
Common, with Lupe Fiasco
If Common was disappointed with the turnout for the first hip-hop show at the John Paul Jones Arena, he did a damn fine job of keeping that to himself. The celebratory
The other forbidden fruit
By some definitions, virtually everything you pick up on the black market could fall under the “entertainment” umbrella—isn’t that what those lines of coke and side-alley blowjobs are about? To narrow the frame, however, we let those mainstays of human misbehavior live on their own and instead focused on electronics and events, from the bootlegs […]
Four, maybe more, Council candidates
“Holly [Edwards] became one of my teachers,” said retiring City Councilor Kendra Hamilton at a press conference April 12 announcing the candidacy of Holly Edwards for City Council. Hamilton addressed a crowd of 30 gathered in a multipurpose room in the public housing high-rise Crescent Halls. “She taught me what a privileged little buppie I […]
Fry’s Spring Neighbors take on developer
James King may be blind, but he’s painfully aware of the development encroaching all around him. Residents of Jefferson Park Circle in Charlottesville for 20 years, King and his wife, Peggy, get a privileged view of both city and county construction. “This is an attack like we’ve never had before,” says Mr. King, a veteran […]