UVA is often called the engine that drives Charlottesville, or the 800-pound gorilla in the room, depending on who’s talking and whether they think UVA’s doing its fair share. Not content with such generalizations, University President John Casteen commissioned a Weldon Cooper Center study to quantify the economic impact on both the local area and […]
UVA is often called the engine that drives Charlottesville, or the 800-pound gorilla in the room, depending on who’s talking and whether they think UVA’s doing its fair share. Not content with such generalizations, University President John Casteen commissioned a Weldon Cooper Center study to quantify the economic impact on both the local area and […]
As of June 7, Starr Hill is officially defunct after eight years in business, and the word from owner Coran Capshaw’s Red Light Management is that the W. Main Street building’s next commercial reincarnation is still undecided.
The expanse of pavement on Jefferson Park Avenue, known as the “JPA Lot” or B1 lot, currently encased in barricades and temporary fencing, through which backhoes dig, was once a thing of beauty. Or, if not a thing of beauty, a thing of lovely utility. During the week, the 247-space lot across from Cabell Hall […]
With City Council’s 4-1 vote to move forward with two designs for the 250 Interchange, the ethereal Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP) lurched one more step closer to existence. Yet the city has a lot of work to do if it plans to break ground in the fall of 2008. Here are the steps standing between the […]
Seeing the squad car’s blues and reds in your rearview is going to cost a lot more come September. City Council approved a $200 minimum fine for speeding on three roads: Old Lynchburg Road, Avon Street and Altavista Avenue. At its July 2 meeting, Council temporarily increased minimum fines after a survey showed 15 percent […]
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services launched a new online registry for dangerous dogs on July 2. Created through legislation in the 2006 General Assembly, the interactive database allows users to see if there are any dangerous dogs in their area. Neither Albemarle nor Charlottesville has any yet listed. Virginia law defines a […]
In the rhetoric of business leaders and politicians, the glossy face of the affordable housing issue is a young couple, probably a firefighter and a school teacher, scoping the market for their first home, preferably new and under $190,000. County policy pushes developers to include some such units in their projects, and nonprofits work to […]
When temperatures get in the 90s and the humidity makes you feel like you’re underwater anyway, why not take a dive into the pool? And how much more convenient it is to have a pool of your own. The problem with that, of course, is that you have to be able to afford it—and have […]
Poplars will have to find a new glen. Construction recently began on the second phase of Poplar Glen, a development of townhomes in Albemarle County on the south side of Ivy Road, near the intersection of the Route 29/250 Bypass and Route 250 West. Owners of the property, Weather Hill Development, are building 28 townhomes […]
Dear Ace: Why is Free Union called Free Union? The name seems a little grandiose for what’s sort of a one-horse town, don’t you think?—Crozet T. Robot Crozet: Yeah, sounds kinda like it should be home to a few Montana militiamen, doesn’t it? But Virginia has plenty of weird town names, though a lot of […]