So here’s a fun little problem: You’ve got plans for a 101-room boutique hotel on the Downtown Mall. The Mall has almost everything your upper-crust hotel dweller could ever want. Jewelry store? Check. High-end stationery? Oh yeah. Fine dining? Yup. Buskers to get you some of that local flavor? Sure. Parking? Well… For all of […]
So here’s a fun little problem: You’ve got plans for a 101-room boutique hotel on the Downtown Mall. The Mall has almost everything your upper-crust hotel dweller could ever want. Jewelry store? Check. High-end stationery? Oh yeah. Fine dining? Yup. Buskers to get you some of that local flavor? Sure. Parking? Well… For all of […]
When I agreed to report on the results of the city’s design contest for the Water Street parking lots, little did I know the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC) would receive a whopping 63 submissions from six countries. Wait, what? How many ways can you redesign a parking lot? Especially when you have to comply […]
Midway through the morning of September 21, Double H Farm co-owner Jean Rinaldi was mowing the grass around her house when she spotted Virginia state and Nelson County police pull into her driveway.
A woman in her mid-30s, Claiborne Fogelman, stands at the foot of Pelham Road in the Hickory Ridge subdivision outside Earlysville, a camera in hand, taking a picture of Buck Mountain framed by the Blue Ridge and the colors of sunset on a brilliantly clear day. She has come home from work and is struck […]
If you’re a candidate running for the Board of Supervisors, one of the most daunting parts of going door to door is finding people who are not home. You leave a flier anyway, but it’s another voter not met, another minute on the campaign trail that can seem fruitless. So Ann Mallek was delighted recently […]
Big development: Approvals of Biscuit Run and Old Trail have caused some grumblings, as well as the Crozet Master Plan, which many are afraid means a dramatic increase in town population. Just about everyone wants developers to pay their fair share. Wyant supporters would say he’s working toward it, while Mallek supporters would say he’s […]
One of the most poignant and revealing quotes from Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation is, “There’s shit in the meat,” referencing the extremely unsanitary conditions at a beef cattle slaughterhouse in Colorado. Here in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties, beef cattle are excreting in another undesirable location: the Hardware River. In 2006, an estimated 590,000 pounds […]
The City of Charlottesville is looking for, in language that can only be described as compassionate corporatism, a “director of customer care.” The job requires a bachelor’s degree in business or public administration and pays anywhere from $80,000 to $100,000 a year. Think you got what it takes? C-VILLE lists what we think the potential […]
The Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement (JADE) task force made two arrests September 27 and seized approximately $11,400 worth of cocaine and marijuana in two separate undercover operations.
Due to a reporting error, in the story “Web could shift real estate market” [Development News, September 19, 2007], Zillow.com was identified as a site that charged to market homes for sale. In fact, Zillow.com offers this service for free.