Dominion Resources’ proposed $4.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline route spans 550 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina, and just 35 of those miles are in Nelson County. But it’s there that the natural gas transmission project, supported by Governor Terry McAuliffe and touted by industry as a job-boosting boon, is meeting with some of […]
Dominion Resources’ proposed $4.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline route spans 550 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina, and just 35 of those miles are in Nelson County. But it’s there that the natural gas transmission project, supported by Governor Terry McAuliffe and touted by industry as a job-boosting boon, is meeting with some of […]
The Virginia Department of Transportation is on track to begin $230 million worth of road projects along Route 29. According to a state mandate, all four components of the plan, dubbed the Route 29 Solutions, must be completed within the next three years. But as the long-anticipated alternative to the Western Bypass moves forward, stakeholders […]
Elected officials, members of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA), and environmental leaders were among the crowd of locals that gathered atop the newly completed Ragged Mountain Dam last Thursday to celebrate the official opening of a controversial project that Charlottesville mayor Satyendra Huja called “the most significant infrastructure achievement in this community in […]
It started over breakfast tacos. Alan Taylor and Johnny Pritzlaff of Riverbend Development—music mogul Coran Capshaw’s local real estate development company—were digging in one Saturday morning at Beer Run in January, talking about the future of the historic Coca Cola bottling plant at 722 Preston Avenue. The company had recently closed on the old plant, […]
In a 4-2 vote last week, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved a special use permit that will allow a small private school to expand enrollment. The school in question is the Regents School of Charlottesville, where last year 83 plaid- and khaki-clad kids from kindergarten to eighth grade attended classes infused with Christian […]
We don’t know exactly what the Route 29 of the future is going to look like, but we do know changes are coming fast—too fast for some business owners who fear the isolating effects of construction and new traffic patterns. The latest timeline for the first slate of projects was at the center of the […]
Besides the obvious, what’s the difference between a barn full of cows and a barn full of wedding guests? Albemarle County is trying to pin down the answer in the wake of a state code change by the General Assembly that aimed to make it easier for farm owners to hold events. But a month […]
Best place to live, best college town, most walkable: Charlottesville’s been praised as all of the above. Its latest accolade, “America’s happiest city,” has generated headlines the world over, and with good reason. We’re not talking about a list cobbled together by interns at a travel magazine, here. The source is a National Bureau of […]
It’s a humid July day, and UVA fourth-year Henry Ilnicky just wants a sandwich. From where he’s standing on 15th Street, Ilnicky could walk under a train trestle and through a third of a mile of busy Corner streets to reach his destination: Take It Away on Elliewood Avenue. But he saves over three blocks […]
Waterhouse building designer Bill Atwood is taking another stab at a multi-story mixed-use development near downtown, and while he believes he’s got a plan for a project that will push West Main Street in the right direction, some are raising concerns that it could put traffic pressure on the surrounding neighborhood. The Atlantic, which will […]