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- Local organizations working to tear down barriers to housing
- location: Breezy Hill Lane, south of U.S. 250
- scale: 160 single-family, and potentially attached, homes
- amenities: walking trails
- price range: more expensive than 200-home proposal
- affordability: no requirement but proffering to sell or rent 15% of total homes to families making 80% of the area median income, or pay $507,000 to the county or a nonprofit instead
- next steps: Albemarle Planning Commission public hearing
New coffee shop planned for Pantops area
As Grit Coffee opens its new location in Riverside Village on Pantops, a competitor has seen a need for coffee shops further east of the Pantops area. Heartrock Farm, LLC is developing a drive-through coffee shop and hardware store on Hunter’s Way off U.S. 250. The plans show Oregon-based coffee company The Human Bean as occupying the corner drive-through. Based on the company’s “Find a Bean” online map, the Hunter’s Way shop would be The Human Bean’s first location on the East Coast. Land planner Kelsey Schlein of Shimp Engineering, which is working on the project, said that Hunter’s Way is planned as a Human Bean location but the project needs a few more approvals before it can become reality. The Albemarle Architectural Review Board provided preliminary comments on Heartrock Farm’s application on Sept. 16.- address: 2300 Hunter’s Way
- scale: two-story commercial building
- price range: $2.25 for a small, fresh-brewed coffee to $7.50 for a large, Java Chip smoothie, in Lexington, KY
- next steps: Albemarle Architectural Review Board meeting
Redevelopment of Scottsville tire factory projected to cost $25 million
Redeveloping the former Hyosung tire factory in Scottsville into a mixed-use building would cost approximately $25 million, according to Waukeshaw Development. Much of that cost could be offset by income from the building, Virginia’s Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit program and a variety of state grants, Waukeshaw said. Scottsville hired Waukeshaw to determine what of community feedback from surveys and studies by the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is financially feasible. Waukeshaw and TJPDC presented to the Scottsville Town Council on Sept. 16. Scottsville’s next step is to turn the studies into a draft small area plan that connects the tire factory to the larger western downtown context.- location: Bird Street, Scottsville
- scale modeled: 100 apartments, 196,000 square feet of commercial or office space
- rent for apartments: $950 per month, including utilities
- next steps: Scottsville Planning Commission meeting planned for Nov. 4