“Put on your white hat,” developer Wendell Wood told business partner J.P. Williamson moments before a March 5 work session on Hollymead Town Center, a proposed development that will sit behind the Harris Teeter and Target stores on Route 29N, looming high on a hill above it all. Convened to address a request to rezone […]
“Put on your white hat,” developer Wendell Wood told business partner J.P. Williamson moments before a March 5 work session on Hollymead Town Center, a proposed development that will sit behind the Harris Teeter and Target stores on Route 29N, looming high on a hill above it all. Convened to address a request to rezone […]
First there was “Pimp My Ride,” now there’s “pimp my hotel.” Purchased last week by Denver’s Richfield Hospitality, Inc. from Hotel Fund Ltd., the Doubletree Hotel (off Route 29N) will
Early on in a March 6 work session, Albemarle Planning Commissioner Eric Strucko was stuck on an issue put forward by a planning staff report on a proposed 476,335-square-foot shopping center sandwiched in between Fifth Street and Avon Street: Should a critical slopes waiver be processed as part of this rezoning? The big-box retail project […]
First there were trees, then there was…red dirt. Next there will be the Country Green Cottages: Sixteen single family detached houses on four acres located off Country Green Road near Old Lynchburg Road. The land is owned by Dale Ludwig of Palmyra, who also has significant holdings in the city. Ludwig purchased neighboring parcels for […]
Michael Andrew Nicholaou lived in Charlottesville only a short time. He drove a cab, worked as an undercover drug informant for the Charlottesville police and opened a porn shop called The Pleasure Chest. He wanted to become a police officer, but couldn’t pass the background check, former Charlottesville Police Chief John “Deke” Bowen recalls. Despite […]
Attorney Cheryl Higgins is a 45-year-old mother of three, the wife of a Charlottesville police sergeant, and a partner in the firm of St. John, Bowling and Lawrence. When she’s not running her kids to practices or cleaning her house,
A 16-year-old Charlottesville High School student is in critical condition after a shooting that occurred around 11pm, March 2, on Prospect Avenue. It has been reported that the teen was an innocent bystander who was shot by a semi-automatic weapon. A dark truck or SUV was seen leaving the scene. March 7, police arrested a […]
The race is on for the position of Albemarle Commonwealth’s attorney. Seasoned criminal defense lawyer Denise Y. Lunsford announced her bid for the county’s head prosecutor position. The Democrat will challenge four-time incumbent, Republican James L. Camblos, III. Lunsford has practiced locally for 17 years and says the prosecutor’s office is where she can do […]
Last week, Charlottesville celebrated its latest accolade as a city among the “Distinctive Dozen,” a title bestowed by the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation. With the award, we join the august company of other “distinctive” towns like Ellensburg, Washington, and West Hollywood, California. “I’m particularly pleased,” said Mayor David Brown, “because if I were […]
Jim Bacon’s incisive ability to cut through Virginia’s transportation issues—what’s up with our clogging roads and what should be done about it—has earned him and his blog Bacon’s Rebellion a number of fans in and out of his home in Richmond. On March 6, Bacon addressed “Why Virginia Transportation Policy is Running off the Rails,” […]