What happens when the housing market takes a nosedive and a deal goes bad between a contractor and a developer? Lawsuits, my friend. Lawsuits. These properties form the crux of a $3 million-plus dispute between R.L. Beyer Construction and Tom Hickman. In January of 2002, when the local real estate and housing markets were turning […]
Since 2003, the City of Charlottesville has been delicately balancing its efforts to grow through infill and redevelopment while at the same time keeping the backhoe from excavating its historic character. It’s an effort that a landowner at 1616 Jefferson Park Ave. is afraid the city might be getting wrong on his side of town. […]
With green building becoming all the rage, developers and builders are jumping over themselves to tout their environmental bona fides. But some, to paraphrase a country song, were green before green was cool. One of them is a native. You may have seen his work around here. Thomas Jefferson—third president, UVA founder and “green” architect, […]
On Valentine’s Day, 2005, Charlottesville resident Shirley Presley filed suit in the United States District Court against the city and the Rivanna Trails Foundation (RTF) for the violation of her property rights over the previous six years, as well as for malicious prosecution by the city. For those claims, Presley asked for $1.4 million in […]
A December 27, 2007, fire that occurred at 528 Jester Ln. in the Camelot subdivision of Albemarle County has been ruled the result of arson, according to Lee Catlin, county spokesperson. “The property owners, Donald and Barbara Smith, were not home at the time of the fire, and lost everything,” she says. The county has […]
In October, we reported on motions to dismiss in the federal lawsuit accusing Wintergreen Partners, Inc. of violating antitrust laws. But the case can go forward, according to a recent ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Norman K. Moon. Nellysford-based Mountain Area Realty claims that an exclusive deal between Wintergreen Partners and the Charlottesville-based Roy […]
When it first was announced that UVA would take over academic leadership of the Semester At Sea program from the University of Pittsburgh, many professors weren’t interested in providing safe harbor. With a “booze cruise” reputation lingering from the 1999 MTV “Road Rules” filmed on board, the program sparked a minor conflagration largely because of […]
The work of curating and directing a museum or art gallery isn’t that much different than curating and directing a website. For a lot of local art spaces, images and text are swapped on a monthly basis for more images and text—abstraction swapped for realism, the name and mission statement of Artist A swapped for […]
High-quality ACC basketball, the best cure for your post-Gator Bowl sickness! Both the men’s and women’s teams had gaps to fill this season, and while the midseason marks aren’t exactly fridge-worthy, they could be worse.
Jonathan Daron Year: Junior Major: Interdisciplinary Studies, with a business concentration Hometown: Norfolk What’s in his backpack: Four bottles of water, 1984, The Art of Fear, Best Darn Lies and Stats