The Landmark Hotel isn’t the only nine-story tower to get underway. Bill Atwood’s Waterhouse tower on Water Street is reinforcing the building in preparation for construction. However, there’s no need to worry about the fate of weekend disco Club 216, which will have five floors of condos built above it. “We remain in full operation and will not close down anytime during the construction,” says Mike Alexander, Club 216 manager and CEO.
Places29, a master plan assembled by consultants to map the future of Route 29N, took a blow from the business-centric Free Enterprise Forum last week. The local group commissioned its own consultant to study the feasibility of installing a split-grade intersection (think overpass) at Rio Road. The resulting report ruled that the overpass would be infeasible and not allowed by the Federal Highway Administration. Likely cheering that news are members of the North Charlottesville Business Council, which has opposed the overpasses because of fears that 29 would become an interstate.
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