Moviegoers in Charlottesville will soon have another theater option, one that serves meals cooked from scratch in auditoriums that boast cutting-edge cinema technology. A spaceship will hang from the lobby’s ceiling, and the posters lining the walls will be vintage, sci-fi, and alien themed, from Turkey, Germany, and France. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is currently […]
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Supervisors endorse collaboration with Habitat to redevelop Southwood
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has unanimously passed a resolution backing the county’s collaboration with an area housing nonprofit as it redevelops Southwood Mobile Home Park. At the board’s meeting Wednesday, Supervisor Rick Randolph said the resolution marked an “exciting launch of a new era” for Southwood, a 120-acre neighborhood of 1,500 residents in […]
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As Wegmans nears completion, company representatives meet community leaders
With only about five weeks before the Wegmans at 5th Street Station opens, workers are moving equipment and dry goods into the store and company personnel met privately Wednesday with local officials and community organizations. The meeting at the nearly completed store between Fifth and Avon streets was part of the company’s plan to work […]
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New Wegmans employees travel for training as Albemarle location takes shape
With five months to go before the doors open at the Wegmans at 5th Street Station, the grocery chain’s temporary offices at the Ix Building are abuzz with new hires and hopefuls. The 120,000-square-foot store will employ a total of 550 people — 200 full-time and 350 part-time — when it opens in November, said […]
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Albemarle Supervisors to consider higher tax rate for FY2017 budget
The Albemarle Board of Supervisors will advertise a 2½-cent increase in the county’s property tax rate for the 2016 calendar year, affirming the amount recommended by county executive Tom Foley. If adopted by the board after an April 12 public hearing, the tax rate would be 84.4 cents per $100 of assessed value. “In order […]
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Fifth Street Station and Wegmans to be served by new transit route
When a new Wegmans opens this fall in the new Fifth Street Station shopping center, customers and employees will be able to get there via a new Charlottesville Area Transit route. “We were [originally] told that they would not be opening until April of 2017,” said John Jones, CAT’s manager. However, Jones and his staff […]
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Connector road at new Wegmans shopping center renamed
When the Wegmans grocery store opens next fall at 5th Street Station, a new road will complete a long-desired connection between Fifth Street Extended and Avon Street. “The entrance and public connector road are part of an overall system that will open up new traffic patterns for cars, public transit, bikes and pedestrians,” said Valerie […]
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More stores planned to join Wegmans at Fifth Street Station
While site work is well underway, developers of the Fifth Street Station shopping center in Albemarle County, just south of the Charlottesville line, say they are busy confirming additional tenants to join the Wegmans grocery store. “The site work on that portion of the project, in fact the entire project, is already well underway,” said […]
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Council clears way for expanded Kroger at new Charlottesville location
One shopping center on U.S. 29 will start a “second life” beginning next summer when one of the region’s three Kroger stores relocates in a revamped space. “We want to upgrade our facilities and have the best stores for our customers in Charlottesville,” said Fenton Childers, Kroger’s Mid-Atlantic real estate manager. The City Council recently […]
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Albemarle panel denies call for urban density along Moores Creek
The Albemarle County Planning Commission has recommended denial of a request to allow a dense residential development near the Willoughby neighborhood and the future Fifth Street Station retail complex. “I think there’s lots of homework to do here,” Planning Commission member Richard Randolph said at a meeting last week. Developer Keith Woodard had asked the […]
