Hollymead developers fail to deliver road on time

The developers of Hollymead Town Center, otherwise known as the Target shopping center on Route 29, have failed to deliver a promised connector road, and the Albemarle County Planning Commission showed no mercy at their September 5 meeting, unanimously denying a developers’ request for a two-year extension.In order to curry favor with planning officials, development […]

City growth has exploded in past three years

Concerning city development, “a lot of stuff is happening.” That’s what Jim Tolbert, director of neighborhood development services for Charlottesville, told City Council on September 5. And based on the numbers Tolbert presented, “a lot” is right: In the past three years, when new zoning ordinances were adopted, 36 projects have been completed, adding 625 […]

Red Dirt Alert

This expanse of 15 acres between Cherry and Cleveland avenues, called the Cherry Hill Planned Unit Development, will soon become 117 housing units. The project consists of 94 townhouses that will be ringed by 23 single-family homes, according to plans filed with City Neighborhood Development Services. Some dwellings should be on the market as early […]

A new direction

The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, our area’s signature symphony, opens its 2006-2007 season with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in October, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in November and a Holiday concert in December. And they’ve got something else special this year: a new conductor, who just happens to have one more X chromosome than most […]

Lynda Harrill is Opinionated

All this talk of “phasing” and “clustering” and “mountain overlay” has many residents of the rural areas in a real lather. Those folks need to look at the other side of the coin.

A laughing matter

Dear Ace: Know any jokes?—Humor S. Thompson

Dear Humor: Hey, was a Moses a Jew? Ace Atkins, master punster, was voted by his high school classmates Most Likely to Get a Laugh!

Fall Arts Preview

MusicTuesday, September 12The Flaming Lips. $35, 6pm. Charlottesville Pavilion, Downtown Mall, 877-CPAV-TIX.Mark Rock solo and other acts perform as part of the Jamie Dyer Presents series. No cover, 8pm. Outback Lodge, 917 Preston Ave., 979-7211.Flaming Lips after-party featuring The Damnwells. $8-10, 10pm. Starr Hill Music Hall, 977-0017.Howling Hex. $7, 10pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Downtown […]

County and City cooperate on 29/250 intersection

Albemarle Place is all but a done deal—a deal that in the next several years will bring 700 residential units, a new hotel, roughly 40 shops and a giant movie theater to Route 29, just north of Hydraulic Road.    What does all this new development mean for the congestion triangle at Route 250, Route 29, […]