Six Questions about Albemarle County’s Neighborhood Model
You can have the most walkable neighborhood in the world, but if the only places you can walk to are your neighbors', the neighborhood is not truly walkable; this seems to be something lost on Albemarle County, whether intentionally or circumstantially. Now the County seems…
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We saw this as we were finishing up our little hike this weekend at Sugar Hollow … I said earlier this year that one of the things that stinks about living in Charlottesville is choosing what to do. Sugar Hollow remains one of my favorite…
Chloramines in Drinking Water – Debate Heating Up in Charlottesville and Albemarle
What's a chloramine? You'd better find out. Charlottesville Tomorrow reports: The Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority will hold a public information session on June 21 regarding the proposed use of chloramines as a secondary water disinfectant in the urban water supply starting in 2014. I'm…
April 2012 Charlottesville Real Estate Market Report
Highlights: - Days on Market (an inherently flawed data point, yet still relevant trend) are down in Charlottesville, Albemarle and Fluvanna. - Average Sales prices are down (not surprising) - Total sales across the MSA are down (not surprising) - Total inventory is down. (this…
Commuting and Traffic in Charlottesville
I noted five years ago that Charlottesville's traffic's perspective wasn't that bad, when put into the appropriate perspective. In the years since I wrote that article, traffic hasn't gotten any more tolerable and the City and County continue to demonstrate an astonishing capability to do…
Daily Progress Sold to Berkshire Hathaway
C-Ville links to Media General's non-pay-walled press release. The Daily Progress' pay-walled iteration of the press release is here. We need local news reporting; here's hoping the Berkshire Hathaway purchase provides better local news writing and reporting by the DP. For those of you interested…
Lots of Road Construction in Charlottesville and Albemarle This Summer
Thanks to C-Ville for putting this list together. From Shadwell to Crozet, there are lots of improvements/detours.
How is “Local” (Food, Farm, Business) Defined?
In case you missed the conversation (150+ comments) last week at cvillenews about the Charlottesville City Market's first vendor who happens to be a franchise, it's worth a read. The main question I see is - what does "local" mean to you? ( outside of…
Charlottesville as a Great “Place” – to Live, Be, Grow Business
There was a great discussion last night at the Tom Tom Founders Festival's Social Media Innovation Track. The panelists were fantastic - - Evan Cooper, Director of Digital Strategy, Red Light Management - Tobias Dengel, CEO Willow Tree - Marijean Jaggers, President of Jaggers Communication…
Rebutting the Realtor Rip-off Argument
"The great realtor rip-off" - what a great attention-grabbing headline from The Economist. But … the author seems to have had a bad experience with a real estate agent that must have precipitated his rant. (try as I might, I cannot find the author's name…