Reason #3,438 Living in Charlottesville is Great
Because this is what I passed Saturday morning on my drive from showing a client house in White Hall to meet another client in Ivy.
UVA’s Firing Range near Glenmore – Balancing Growth with Long-Term Firing Range
UVA has had a firing range for a long, long time. Residents of the Glenmore neighborhood don't like listening to it, so they've asked UVA for either a quieter range or for it to be moved. UVA, being state-owned, "is not required to seek permission…
Will Charlottesville Aggressively Target Mixed-Use Redevelopment?
If they take this statement to heart, we'll have a more dense and more walkable/bikeable/liveable City in the next 10-20 years. “By maintaining over 40 acres of cracked asphalt along a growth corridor such as Preston Avenue, we essentially … had five times less revenue…
Belmont’s Long History
J. Tobias Beard looks at Belmont in an excellent , in-depth story titled "The wonder years: How real estate and gentrification changed Belmont for good" … an awful has changed in Belmont. (more…)
Tuesday Morning Reads – 28 August 2012
- Gentrification and Charlottesville - C-Ville - My favorite line of the week: "If Austin is fighting to stay weird, let's us fight to stay a little bit country." - Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce Releases 2012 Jobs Report - NBC29 (and here's the actual report)…
(Some) Real Estate Prices up in Charlottesville and Albemarle
Looking at some real estate data the other day, I came to a conclusion: for some segments of the Charlottesville real estate market, we might actually be in the "bottom" - bottom meaning that prices are either not declining anymore or are in fact, wait…
A Day in Crozet
He makes Crozet sound like such a great place to live. I'm betting that the suggestions from Crozetians led to his having a more productive (and fun) day.
C-Ville + WordPress = Great New Site
C-Ville discovers Wordpress, and the result is pretty slick. Simple, clean design, great font, disqus commenting … I love that they kept things local: Ryan DeRose and his company Vibethink—a one-man team when we signed them up, and a five-person shop on the Downtown Mall…
NAR’s New Ad: Hit or Miss?
It's been a while since I've written about the National Association of Realtors and their sometimes mis-guided, self-serving ad campaigns* and lamentably, today is one of those days where I feel I need to say, "I'm a Realtor, but I reject their current ad campaign."…
Charlottesville Bubble Bloggers’ Take on the Current State of the Market
It's not often that I say something is a "must read", but the Charlottesville Bubble Bloggers' "Carpe Diem" Trumps "Caveat Emptor" As "Bottom" and "Recovery" Chatter Increase in the Charlottesville Real Estate Market Mid 2012 is such a post. Broadly-sourced, logically articulated, they debunk a…