Dear Ace: I am engaged to a beautiful young woman but am having second thoughts about our future together. For example, I prefer to go down to the Mudhouse and purchase a fine, handmade double cappuccino as my morning brew, while she actually prefers to mix up some jarred, mutant instant coffee at our apartment, […]
We’re now almost a quarter of the way through our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. And we’ve started to notice a trend: The more things change, the more they stay the same—at least in the past decade or so. The Cavaliers get a new basketball […]
A photo caption in the March 17 cover story [“Battling again”] misidentified the location where Orange County Supervisor Teri Pace was photographed. The photo was taken at a site Pace suggests would be a good alternative for the proposed Wal-Mart.
If the only stupid question is the one not asked, then Danny Schmidt, a Charlottesville expatriate and a founding father of the local folk scene, is thumbtack sharp, a songwriter with the curviest question marks. Former local Danny Schmidt trots out his finest tunes for the esteemed Red House Records label on Instead the Forest […]
On Middle Cyclone, Neko Case refines and deepens lessons learned from country, the singer/songwriter tradition and the off-center pop art of her sometimes band, the New Pornographers. With a terseness that nonetheless gives room for metaphor explorations and her discreetly eloquent musicians, Case twists the usually sleepy singer/songwriter style, lacing its romance with verbal timebombs […]
The City of Charlottesville and the Virginia Department of Transportation nominally won in a circuit court hearing last week over a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway, but the victory may be pyrrhic depending on what Judge Jay Swett decides during a May 19 hearing over the merits. Meadowcreek Parkway […]
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION Assessed value: $342 million Acres: 4,766 Notable holdings: Boar’s Head Inn and Birdwood Golf Course; North Fork Research Park; Fontaine Research Park; Morven Farm; 18 residential properties; 14 apartment buildings; 18 office buildings; two other hotels; one former hospital; and five restaurants. The UVA Foundation, which manages the taxable real estate […]
DR. CHARLES HURT Virginia Land Company Assessed value: $132 million* Acres: 3,155 Notable holdings: Fray’s Grant, Pavilions at Pantops, Advance Mills Farms, Mink Creek Estates, Montgomery Ridge. In 1961, Virginia Land Company was founded by Dr. Charles Hurt, a 1954 graduate of the UVA School of Medicine. Much of Hurt’s assets are in undeveloped land, […]
HUNTER CRAIG Assessed value: $126 million* Acres: 1,305 Notable holdings: Biscuit Run, Wachovia tower on the Mall, the Bank of America building on the Mall, Chancellor Building on the Corner, Barracks West Condos Hunter Craig is either well positioned to make a killing when the recession ends or stuck with a millstone around his neck. […]