Author Archives: Sean Tubbs

A project that would build two dozen single-family homes in Charlottesville’s Ridge Street neighborhood is closer to reality now that the Planning Commission agreed to a planning milestone. The group’s consent agenda Tuesday included a major subdivision of 7.134 acres of vacant land off Hartmans Mill Road that will create 25 single-family lots and one […]

A former member of the Charlottesville School Board is set to become the next principal of Walker Upper Elementary School, according to an email sent Wednesday to parents. “Dr. Adam Hastings comes from Piedmont Virginia Community College, where he has been the Dean of Business, Mathematics, and Technology,” wrote Gary Blair, the director of human […]

The general manager of the Sprint Pavilion at the eastern end of the Downtown Mall appeared before the Charlottesville Economic Development Authority on Tuesday to ask for an expansion of a loan that would help pay for a new fabric roof for the structure. “As you stand up there and look at it, you can […]

As the city works on a future streetscape for East High Street, city planners are evaluating a layout for a five-story office building that would replace the Tarleton Oak service station. Tarleton Oak LLC has submitted a site plan for a two-phase project that would first see construction of the office building, followed by a […]

When Albemarle County Executive Jeffrey Richardson unveiled his first operating and capital budget in mid-February, the amount was $428.5 million. That amount has increased in part because officials in the county’s Office of Management and Budget staff altered the budget cycle this year by adding an additional step in early March that would give a […]

When the Albemarle Board of Supervisors holds a public hearing April 10 on their revisions to County Executive Jeffrey Richardson’s proposed $428.5 million budget, citizens will be asked to weigh in on a $35.1 million project that will begin a transformation of the county’s approach to high school education. “[High School 2022] is in response […]

The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review, charged with maintaining the city’s vision for historic corridors such as West Main Street, recently sent one proposal back to the drawing board. “This is an office park kind of building,” said Corey Clayborne, the Planning Commission’s representative to the BAR. “As you look at the future of our […]

Plans to turn the skeletal Landmark into a world-class hotel inched forward this week when the city’s Board of Architectural Review approved the height and massing for the Dewberry Charlottesville, as the property now is known. “We are requesting to add an additional story on top of the existing building that is there now based […]

The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review has granted conditional approval for a mural near the site of a car attack that killed Heather Heyer and injured dozens of other counter-protesters at a white supremacist rally Aug. 12. The approval came despite concerns from some that the design had not received enough public scrutiny in advance. […]