The Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO) is now ready to spread its wings. The Virginia Aviation Board announced that it has approved tentative allocations of funds for 33 of the state’s airports for a total of more than $21 million. That funding includes $4.5 million for seven CHO projects, most notably the Runway Extension Phase 1A design […]
When she took over as city preservation planner in 2003, no one told Mary Joy Scala to keep tabs
Ever had trouble finding the Mall? City officials (prodded by Downtown merchants) want to make sure that Charlottesville tourists have no problem figuring out where they can drop some dough betwixt trips to Monticello and the Rotunda. The city Board of Architectural Review is vetting signs like these on September 15, designed by Merje, a […]
In academics as in life, timing is everything, folks. Twenty-four hours after the Bush Administration announced the bailout of financial giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs hosted what it called a global summit on “The New Financial Architecture.” In the rain, yellow-slickered parking attendants greeted reporters and financial consultants […]
A massive steel staircase, exposed ducts and a naked concrete floor welcome faculty and students to the new home of UVA’s Studio Art program. The 42,000-square-foot, three-story facility brings together all studio art programs —drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, new media and film, installation and performance art—under one roof for the first time. For more […]
The football team is off to an underwhelming start (blown out by U.Conn??!) and the men’s soccer team has fallen to 4-3. Where’s the sports excitement this season for the Cavaliers? Try field hockey. The team (6-1) has been ranked as high as No. 8, and though it dropped its first game of the season […]
Year: Junior Major: Biology Hometown: Northern Virginia What’s in your backpack? The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Lewis Wilkin, The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger, umbrella, two notebooks, Post-it notes, wallet, planner, five pens, three pencils, iClicker for her Econ 201 class, ruler, Chapstick (plain flavor), cell phone, a sorority […]
As of this weekend, Jefferson Park Avenue has the outline of the South Lawn stretching above it between West Main and Emmet streets. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, work crews lifted beams into place that will form the base for the South Lawn, a grassy pedestrian bridge that will connect New Cabell Hall […]
County Executive Bob Tucker has worked for Albemarle County for 30 years, and he has never seen a revenue situation as bad as this one. Until this year, the worst year for real estate assessments was in 1991, when they only grew by 2 percent on average. But when assessments came out in January, they […]
City Council took its annual retreat on September 5 and 6, staying at a hotel in Staunton. The only media there? Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Brian Wheeler, who a few days later reported that Council went through an exercise to re-evaluate its priorities, and councilors agreed that public housing/affordable housing needs the most attention. How much of […]