FEDERAL REALTY INVESTMENT TRUST Assessed value: $106 million Acres: 37 Notable holdings: Barracks Road Shopping Center; Shopper’s World Shopping Center One of the few nonlocal entities on the list, Federal Realty Investment Trust specializes in retail assets and, as such, owns or manages over 100 commercial properties, or 18.1 million square feet, across the country. […]
CORAN CAPSHAW Assessed Value: $99 million* Acres: 1,352 Notable holdings: Tiverton Farm in Greenwood, the former ConAgra building in Crozet, former SNL building that is now Red Light Building on the Mall, the Jefferson Theater, and the undeveloped Coal Tower property. Though his people make clear that Coran Capshaw does not himself own $99 million […]
DOUGLAS CATON Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Management Services Corporation MSC Assessed Value: $98 million Acres: 437 Notable holdings: Northwoods at Four Seasons Apartments (310 units), Cambridge Square Apartments (92 units), Rugby McIntyre Apartments (76 units). A UVA law school graduate, Doug Caton fell into property ownership by accident. “I came back […]
In Live Arts’ production of the The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder offers unexpected advice for the penny pincher in tough economic times: Ladies and fellas, fall in love. The play focuses on the transformation of Horace Vandergelder from a miserly, lonely merchant to a generous husband. Instigating this transformation—and at the center of all the raucous […]
Six Years marks an evolution for Charlottesville’s Old School Freight Train, in which the band leaps from the well-traveled track of “newgrass” onto a blend of pop and traditional music that’s all its own. Place your bets on the new Old School Freight Train record, the long-awaited Six Years. The album will be released during […]
You know, when it comes to politics, sometimes it’s good to be invisible. Sure, most elected officials dream of having Barack Obama’s charisma, JFK’s sex appeal, Hillary Clinton’s smarts and Ronald Reagan’s hair—but then, most of them also dream of being president, and we all know how often that fantasy ends in tears. But the […]
Dear Ace: Last week I drove by the McIntire Skate Park and saw grown men and women riding bikes in circles while whacking balls with mallets. What were they doing and should I be scared?—CiCi Ryder CiCi: Congratulations. You have discovered an urban subculture new to Charlottesville: the exciting world of hard court bike polo. […]
On January 1, the new University Human Resources (HR) plan went into effect.
We’re now almost a quarter of the way through our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on various bandwagons (hello, DMB; hello, green building), and this week, in light of the fight in Orange County over situating a Wal-Mart near […]
When Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met in battle, it was in May 1864, at a site called Wilderness—just 50 miles northeast of Charlottesville. And the result of that meeting was some of the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War. The intersection near the proposed site isn’t exactly pristine. There’s already […]