CLICK TO ENLARGE More feature articles: Fifeville’s futureNow at the crossroads of change, city neighbors clash One way to keep residents in homesCity-financed rehabs The incredible rise in Fifeville assessmentsOne force pushing out longtime residents is the dramatic 23 percent annual increase in assessments in Fifeville since 2004, which have been more than double the […]
CLICK TO ENLARGE More feature articles: Fifeville’s futureNow at the crossroads of change, city neighbors clash One way to keep residents in homesCity-financed rehabs The incredible rise in Fifeville assessmentsOne force pushing out longtime residents is the dramatic 23 percent annual increase in assessments in Fifeville since 2004, which have been more than double the […]
More feature articles: Fifeville’s future Now at the crossroads of change, city neighbors clash Fifeville in flux Mapping out the neighborhood One way to keep residents in homes City-financed rehabs The incredible rise in Fifeville assessmentsOne force pushing out longtime residents is the dramatic 23 percent annual increase in assessments in Fifeville since 2004, which […]
More feature articles: Fifeville’s future Now at the crossroads of change, city neighbors clash Fifeville in flux Mapping out the neighborhood One way to keep residents in homesCity-financed rehabs The incredible rise in Fifeville assessments One force pushing out longtime residents is the dramatic 23 percent annual increase in assessments in Fifeville since 2004, which […]
The city Board of Architectural Review has recommended 10 properties be added to the local list of individually protected properties, a designation to protect the buildings from demolition and exterior change without city approval. Most of the buildings were commercial, such as the former Monticello Dairy building on Preston Avenue, or church buildings, like the […]
On April 29, the deal was done. Late-night music at the Corner icon Satellite Ballroom will make way for late-night cigarette and condom purchases. Goodbye indie rockers, local musicians and the crown jewel of the Charlottesville music scene. Hello national-chain behemoth CVS. Local businesses Just Curry and Higher Grounds will have to vacate the Anderson […]
A Charlottesville development dream team has broken ground on a five-story building that will cozy up to the Downtown ACAC on Monticello Avenue. The project, according to city neighborhood planner Brian Haluska, is a joint venture between Red Light Management (read: Coran Capshaw) and ACAC (Phil Wendel), two of the area’s financial heavy hitters. According […]
Over the years, many area residents have had their plans of attending UVA dashed when they failed to gain admission to the elite school sometimes referred to as the “Ivy League of the South.”
If there is one phone number saved into political reporters’ cell phones, at the top of their speed dials, burned into the muscle memory of their collective index finger, it is that of UVA politics professor and director of the Center for Politics Larry Sabato. Even way back in 1994, The Wall Street Journal called […]
UVA environmental science Professor James Galloway returned from a class on the nitrogen cascade [pdf] in February to find a strange message on his voicemail, a man saying he would call back at 1:30pm. “Every now and then I get prank calls from people with solutions to pollution and things like that, so I was […]
Melissa Lockwood Age: 21 Year: Senior Major: Double major in Studio Art and American Studies What’s in your backpack: Three notebooks, wallet, makeup bag, crossword puzzles from a desk calendar, headphones, Altoids, empty water bottle, two Ziploc bags (one containing tea bags), bills, torn pages from a teen magazine for a paper assignment, empty Absolut […]