Author Archives: Sean Tubbs

As the University of Virginia celebrates its bicentennial, a series of panelists on Friday explored the societal effects expansion has had on Charlottesville throughout the decades. “What I’ve been struck by is how little the average UVa student knows about Charlottesville history,” said Morgan Feldenkris, a third-year student. Feldenkris is a part of a class […]

As demolition looms for the Cavalier Inn and the Villa Diner at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road, the University of Virginia is continuing to plan for what could happen next on a 14.5-acre tract of land. “It’s bound by the railroad tracks to the north, Emmet Street on the east, Ivy Road […]

The symbolic start of a construction site is traditionally marked with a groundbreaking, but the developers of a new apartment complex on Charlottesville’s West Main Street opted to celebrate Tuesday by spray-painting a parking lot with the words “Six Hundred West Main,” the name of the project. “We’ve had probably about two years of design, […]

As completion nears of the massive Standard apartment building on Charlottesville’s West Main Street, another complex that opened two years ago recently was rebranded by the national firm that now owns it. What had been called the Uncommon, at 1000 W. Main, is now known as Lark on Main, although some of the signage outside […]

The design for a new look and feel for Charlottesville’s West Main Street is still being developed more than four years after the firm Rhodeside & Harwell began work on the plan. “We’ve now moved into what we’re calling our design-development phase, which is really serving as the pre-final design,” said Carrie Rainey, the city’s […]

The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review made a partial recommendation to approve the size and shape of a new downtown building Tuesday, but stopped short of full support after the acting city attorney noted a problem. “The proposed building appears to exceed the maximum allowable building height for the zoning district,” wrote Lisa Robertson in […]

The Charlottesville City Council has taken the first official step toward creating a nonprofit entity that could help increase the number of affordable housing units within city limits. “A land bank corporation is a transactional mechanism created within state law in order to acquire, manage, develop, sell or convey property,” said Brenda Kelley, the city’s […]

As the Charlottesville region seeks to increase the inventory of affordable housing units, members of the city’s emerging green-energy sector see an opportunity to reduce area greenhouse gases while lowering utility costs. “Historically, when it comes to clean-energy programs and investments, communities of color and low-income communities have not been the beneficiaries of that,” said […]

The Charlottesville City Council will work with City Manager Maurice Jones on a search for the next leader of the city’s legal team. “We don’t have a whole heck of lot of positions that we directly hire,” Councilor Kathy Galvin said at a meeting last week, adding that an internal candidate also could emerge from […]