Big box bickering: Why some locals are wailing over Wegmans
The Fifth Street development project, now known as 5th Street Station, is soon to be a big box retail sanctuary with almost half a million square feet of space, an […]
New digs: More construction on West Main
The mixed-use residential complex going up on West Main and 10th streets now has an official name: Uncommon. And the developers have a description of the type of people they […]
Monumental questions: Local statues are a lesson in history and a source of controversy
For a city its size, Charlottesville has a truly amazing collection of world-class statuary. Standing at Court Square and two nearby parks, bookending West Main Street and of course liberally […]
Double crossed: Businesses bemoan Second Street closure
For lovers of independent movies and vino, the construction of the Violet Crown Cinema and wine bar in the former Regal theater space on the Downtown Mall is a sign […]
Grave matters: At Ridge and Cherry, new development plans and an old battle
On May 12, the Charlottesville Planning Commission will chew over the next chapter in a decades-old development story as Charlie Armstrong, vice president of Southern Development, pitches the latest zoning […]
Historic lens: Gundars Osvalds rediscovers the Vinegar Hill neighborhood
Last summer, life-long photographer and Maryland-based software engineer Gundars Osvalds decided to hunt through his basement for old family pictures—and found a mystery. “In the last 12 years, I’ve taken […]
Trump to turn Albemarle House into luxe bed and breakfast
When Donald Trump and his son Eric bought former billionaire Patricia Kluge’s 45-room mansion in 2012, completing a $12.7 million takeover of her 776-acre county estate, the younger mogul hinted […]
Appraisals offer closer look at Mark Brown’s parking garage legal battle
Documents acquired from the city via a Freedom of Information Act request are shedding more light on the possible grounds for downtown developer Mark Brown’s lawsuit against property appraiser Ivo […]
Downtown developer files suit over Water Street garage land appraisal
Developer and businessman Mark Brown’s takeover of the company that controls most of the public parking in downtown Charlottesville last August was the sale of the summer, but the saga […]
Fight over deer cull highlights heavy use of kill permits in suburban Albemarle
When Fieldbrook resident Kathleen Manuel found a letter in her mailbox last month informing her a neighbor on her quiet cul-de-sac off Rio Road was planning to bring in bow […]