PHAR celebrates 10 years of community action
Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR)’s 10th anniversary party put public and affordable housing issues on the back burner. For a night, at least.
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Mates of State flood Gravity Lounge
…with people! A recap of a jam-packed concert, plus two shows tonight that you’ll want to arrive early for.
The Paramount Theater: Anyone have $3,750 to spare?
For the price of 2,000 cups of coffee, you can support our city’s nonprofit theater by sponsoring the National Acrobats of China, or Ravi Shankar! What do you get in return?
Retail sales down for Charlottesville and Albemarle
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has just released data from the first three quarters of 2008 for the region’s retail sales activity. Good news for Augusta, Greene, Louisa and Waynesboro. Bad news for Albemarle and Charlottesville.
Hotel update: Minor calls Danielson “former developer,†work continues
The saga over the status of the Landmark Hotel continues to get stranger. After financial partner Halsey Minor and developing partner Lee Danielson traded quips in the media over whether Silverton Bank has or has not paid the project’s bills, Minor now says that when the project resumes, Danielson will no longer be a part of it.
“Drill, baby, drill” off the coast of Virginia?
The chant “drill, baby, drill†may soon be heard off the coast of the Commonwealth. The Washington Post reports that the Bush Administration is taking the next step in its efforts to lease waters off the coast of Virginia to companies that are interested in drilling oil and natural gas.
O Tannenbaum, we cut you down for paper
The flow of junk mail’s really been picking up lately at our house, which is no surprise considering the crazy consumption-fest that looms on the near horizon. This arrived in the mailbox yesterday…
Kaine will stick it out as governor
ABC News’ Jay Shaylor reports that Virginia Governor Tim Kaine won’t leave his post in the Commonwealth for a position in the Obama administration.
Landmark hotel construction on hold
Despite some signs of life on the site this morning, construction has apparently been halted on the nine-story Landmark Hotel, according to The Daily Progress, pending a missed payment of $1.1 million to Clancy & Theys Construction Company.
UPDATE: Bank can’t pay bills for Downtown hotel construction, says developer
Charlottesville now has it’s own monument to the financial crisis rocking the world: the nine-story hotel rising on the Downtown Mall is on indefinite hold after a bank apparently failed to pay its bills.