Since his childhood, a dream of working on luxury cars has revved Kenny Shreves’ engines. He currently works mostly on Porsches in Werkstatt, his performance shop in Charlottesville, where vehicles like this finished Porsche (top left) are prepped for the track (top right). His current fixation is the Ford GT (center), a $1 million […]
Since his childhood, a dream of working on luxury cars has revved Kenny Shreves’ engines. He currently works mostly on Porsches in Werkstatt, his performance shop in Charlottesville, where vehicles like this finished Porsche (top left) are prepped for the track (top right). His current fixation is the Ford GT (center), a $1 million […]
When I arrived at the Augusta Government Center in Verona, I was immediately greeted by a line of Porsches waiting for their turn to race the circuit. I was supposed to be meeting Sherry Westfall and husband James Condon, social chair and webmaster of the Shenandoah Regional Porsche Club of America, respectively. This was the […]
Even though City Council has cast its final vote on the city road portion of the
Not everyone is in retreat mode during the current economic climate. Local developer Hunter Craig has purchased the Wachovia building on the Downtown Mall for $6.65 million. The building at 119-123 E. Main St. is the Mall’s tallest structure, with Wachovia as the principal tenant. The properties will be managed by CB Richard Ellis-Charlottesville, which […]
The black granite façade of the former Boxer Learning Center
Once a novelty and now a rather pedestrian online encyclopedia, Wikipedia triggered its news avalanche when someone rewrote the entry about Sarah Palin shortly before she joined McCain’s presidential bid. The Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR), however, doesn’t anticipate that much controversy when it creates Wikipedia entries for the area’s neighborhoods. CAAR President Judy […]
“The project that really gets my fancy right now is that I am building one of those X Prize cars,” says Oliver Kuttner, one of Kenny Shreves’ early employers and a race car enthusiast himself. The goal of the Automotive X Prize competition, sponsored by Progressive Insurance, is to “think about a cleaner, safer, more […]
It was bound to happen: even racing has “gone green.” The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) announced in January its commitment to using alternative fuels in motorsports and partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Society of Automotive Engineers International. According to the ALMS’s President and CEO Scott […]
Bob Fenwick sat on a bench in front of McIntire Park’s softball fields. “This is such a beautiful place,” he says, pointing to the trees that stretch into the horizon. “It’s the Central Park of Charlottesville.” Fenwick is the founder of Savemcintire.com, a website focused on combatting City Council’s decision to “get rid of the […]
December 12 is the last day for Noah Schwartz, executive director of the Charlottesville Redevelopment Housing Authority (CRHA). After three years at the agency, he is leaving the area to jump back into the nonprofit world working for a company that “does things I’ve done in the past.” Schwartz’s resignation is one more dent into […]