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Valleywag Notices Charlottesville

Nifty (archived: 2019).

Courtesy cVillain (archived: 2010). More at the HooK, C-Ville, Daily Progress (archived: 2009) and cvillenews.

From the DP:

Construction on the nine-story, 100-room luxury hotel on the Downtown Mall is about to grind to a halt — or is it?
The owner of the $30 million Landmark Hotel is saying that the Georgia bank financing the project has fallen behind on payments for a $24 million loan. As a result, he said, the project’s army of construction workers have not been paid since September and will cease work by the end of the week.
Yet the hotel’s developer, Lee Danielson, tells a different story.

It’s just a bit weird.

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