An employment crisis is brewing eight years down the line: As the baby boomers retire and smaller generations come to working maturity, demand for employees will far outstrip supply. Will the gum-popping youths of today be ready to fill those retiring shoes? Such was the picture painted by Darah Bonham, the new director of Charlottesville […]
A potential signal of a cooling Charlottesville condo market came last week as Riverbend Condominium developers Dupont Fabros slashed prices 10 percent and began rolling out a “Workforce Housing initiative,” which provides a price break for anyone employed in “key public service sectors.”
Revitalization or gentrification? Whatever you want to call it, the Charlottesville Planning Commission wasn’t approving it at their July 11 meeting, putting the brakes on two projects that would increase density in the Fifeville neighborhood around Cherry Avenue. In an uncharacteristically divided decision, the commission voted 4-2 to deny a rezoning request by Mark Saunders […]
With City Council purged of Republican dissent following the May elections, can we expect a year of agreement, decisive action and swift resolution to age-old Charlottesville problems?
The Eastern Connector took a baby step toward existence at the most recent Albemarle County Board of Supervisors meeting. Supervisors approved an Eastern Connector alignment study to explore options for a road that would connect Route 29N to Route 20, with the idea of alleviating heavy traffic on Route 250 and Rio Road. Mark Graham, […]
There’s a new player in the development market looking to become major: Habitat for Humanity. The local chapter of the nonprofit Christian housing builder stepped into the development market last year with the purchase of Sunrise Trailer Park in lower Belmont, a property currently housing 21 families, and stepped up its game dramatically with a recent contract on Southwood Mobile Home Estates, which currently has 371 trailers on 100 acres near Old Lynchburg Road.
The Bundoran Farm project will continue as planned, says new Qroe CEO Robert Baldwin Jr., son of former CEO Robert Baldwin, who died June 14 in an Albemarle plane crash while he and Regional Director David Brown tried to land on the Bundoran property that Qroe has been developing. Baldwin acknowledges the heavy blow from […]
Changes are in the pipeline for Upward Bound, a federal high school program administered locally by UVA that is designed to increase college attendance rates for those most at risk: low-income students and those whose parents didn’t attend college. Local programs stand to lose autonomy in how they recruit high school students to receive Upward […]
What is the deal with mega “mixed-use” development Albemarle Place? Certainly, red dirt now exists on the expansive retail and residential site just north of the Hydraulic/29 intersection surrounding Sperry Marine. Several local blogs have reported that construction has begun, even though the final site plan has yet to be approved by the Albemarle County […]
Raja Jabbour, former Albemarle High JV girls’ soccer coach, will remain in jail until his trial for possession of child pornography on his computer. At a U.S. District Court bond hearing June 27, Judge Norman K. Moon ruled that there were no conditions that could “keep him from being a danger to the public,” adding […]