Two transactions in Charlottesville this fall illustrate how student housing is a lucrative global business with healthy cash flow fueled by households that can afford to pay premium prices for places to live. In the past dozen years, three student-housing buildings—all valuable commodities for investors—have been constructed on West Main Street. Madison Loft LLC sold […]
The Virginia Tourism Corporation currently divides the Commonwealth into 10 distinct regions, from the Southwest Heart of Appalachia to the Coastal Virginia Eastern Shore. “Tourism regions are established by and for the VTC solely to organize the tourism product in a defined geographic area and to present that information to the consumer through a variety […]
Update 12/4/25: Per the December 2 recount, the final tally for the 2025 Fluvanna School Board Cunningham District election is 1,250 Charles Rittenhouse, 1,227 Sarah Johnson. Rittenhouse won reelection by 23 votes. Election season ended last month for most of Virginia. But in Fluvanna County, one race—roiled by allegations of Election Day misconduct—is finally coming […]
Building new transportation projects can take many years as ideas make their way through competitive processes to decide what gets funded. One concept in Albemarle County is to create a shared-use pathway to follow along Three Notch’d Road, a route to the west first carved out of the landscape in the 18th century during the […]
“Don’t be a dick.” That’s the ask from Kari Anderson Miller, a former Greenbrier Elementary School teacher and Peace Corps alumna who started the nonprofit International Neighbors a decade back. Her initial intent—to tether newly resettled refugees in Charlottesville to community members who’d help them adjust—meant to ease newcomers into their first exciting, bewildering, sometimes […]
For decades, Albemarle’s Comprehensive Plan has divided the county’s land into two parts: a rural area where public investment is discouraged and a growth area intended to be a place where people can live, work, and play. Yet Albemarle’s urban area lacks public open space with most of the county’s parks in the rural area […]
After five days of video evidence and harrowing witness and victim testimonies, Judge Cheryl Higgins stoically sentenced former University of Virginia student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. to five life sentences, plus an additional 23 years, for the 2022 mass shooting that claimed the lives of UVA football players Devin Chandler, D’Sean Perry, and Lavel “Tyler” […]
The primary goal of Charlottesville’s new zoning code is to increase the number of places for people to live within city limits. Along with that comes initiatives to make adjustments to city streets that makes them safer for all who use them. After a woman was killed crossing Elliott Avenue at dusk in early October […]
One of the biggest challenges facing a growing locality is how to pay for infrastructure needed to support a larger population. Most funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia depends on competitive processes that require detailed plans before applications can even be submitted. On November 19, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors had been expected to endorse […]
It’s a bye-week for the University of Virginia football team, but big developments on- and off-field are still to come. Sentencing for the murders of Devin Chandler, D’Sean Perry, and Lavel Davis Jr. began November 17, just four days after the three-year anniversary of the on-Grounds shooting. Two additional students, Mike Hollins and Marlee Morgan, […]