From the outside, the changes to the old Martha Jefferson Hospital aren’t visually jarring. In fact, other than a new sign on High Street, a seven-story glass atrium soaring above the former emergency room entrance, and continuing construction around back, someone driving past the site might not realize that a building where thousands of babies […]
From the outside, the changes to the old Martha Jefferson Hospital aren’t visually jarring. In fact, other than a new sign on High Street, a seven-story glass atrium soaring above the former emergency room entrance, and continuing construction around back, someone driving past the site might not realize that a building where thousands of babies […]
In 2005, fed up with the tangle of bureaucratic red tape he said was stifling creativity in Downtown development, Oliver Kuttner vowed he was done with building in Charlottesville. The man who has a historic connection to nearly every large Downtown Mall-area project from The Terraces to City Walk to the Landmark Hotel packed up […]
A Belmont mini-market transformed into a catering hub. A company that opens up the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to vacationers through a network of homestay houses. An eyewear line featuring glasses with removable lenses and exchangeable frames. These are some of the business ideas born in Charlottesville that debuted as part of a pitch competition, […]
Ever had a hip replaced? Tonsils removed? Broken bone set? How much did it cost? And not your out-of-pocket costs—what was the total pricetag for the procedure? If you managed to find out, the number could vary wildly. “Chargemaster” prices—essentially, a hospital’s sticker price for a given procedure—are often hard for patients to unearth, and […]
Regal Cinema’s movie theater monopoly in Charlottesville has ended, and the new kid on the block is planning to serve up something sure to have local cinephiles salivating: a Downtown theater that offers upscale food and cocktails along with indie film fare. William S. Banowsky, Jr., owner of Violet Crown Cinema in Austin, is partnering […]
What do the walls of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, the window sills of New York City’s Rockefeller Center, and Martha Stewart’s kitchen counter have in common? They were all carved out of the ground 25 miles southwest of Charlottesville. Now Alberene, the Schuyler soapstone company whose quarries produced those and countless other pieces over the last […]
Charlottesville’s second Better Business Challenge, a year-long sustainability competition for local companies, wraps up in May, but founder Teri Kent wants business owners to know there’s still plenty of time to get onboard—and save a lot. Kent, creator of local environmental blog Better World Betty, kicked off the first challenge in 2012 as a way […]
First there was Trader Joe’s at Stonefield. Then came Fresh Market at Albemarle Square. Word that a Wegmans is coming to Fifth Street set foodie hearts aflutter when it was announced in 2012. In what has become a veritable parade of grocery stores marching into Charlottesville, the new ones just keep on coming. The latest […]
Check c-ville.com daily and pick up a copy of the paper Wednesdays for the latest Charlottesville and Albemarle news briefs and stories. Here’s a quick look at some of what we’ve had an eye on for the past week. McAuliffe names Republican Bypass supporter as transportation secretary Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe has announced his pick for […]
Ben Rindner is standing over one side of a freshly slaughtered pig. In front of him, running left to right along the butcher block at JM Stock Provisions & Supply, is the animal’s bisected backbone. Below that are loins and chops, shoulders and shanks, meaty muscles tucked into the carcass’s cross-section among organs, bones, ligaments, […]