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Albemarle Places creeps closer

in Albemarle Charlottesville Growth on

The 80-acre site surrounding the Sperry Marine facility will eventually hold almost 2 million square feet of leasable space and is projected to include a 150-room hotel, a 14-screen cinema, 780 apartments, office space, a grocery store, restaurants and a variety of large retail outlets.Just what we need at one of the busiest, most dangerous intersections in the area. Prior to the land’s rezoning, the county extracted a variety of conditions from developers, who agreed to fund more than $5 million in transportation and capital improvement projects in the area.I didn’t find these proffers/concession at Albemarle’s site; probably wasn’t looking hard enough. If I sound bitter, it is because my office is located between this development and the 29/250 interchange.

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Charlottesville and Albemarle’s Places 29 – Same Old, Same Old

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I stand by what I said in June of this year : Places 29 , Albemarle County’s plan for the 29 North Corridor is in its fifth year (at least) and public outreach meetings continue. Candidly, i suspect that this plan will continue to be yet another exercise is the County and county business leaders publicly demonstrating that their best interests are served by continuing the planning process while those citizens to actually drive 29 continue to lament the interminable planning and delays of the aforementioned “leaders.”

…What I mean by this is that some parts of the city and county are becoming relatively ignorant of each other, as the residents don’t need to leave their respective worlds. As each neighborhood develops continues to evolve and develop and re-develop its own identity, residents may become more involved hyper-locally but less-so in the greater Charlottesville area.

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Albemarle County Kicked Off “Places 29”

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You’ve seen the construction and development just north of Charlottesville along U.S. Route 29, and may have wondered to yourself “is this just the tip of the iceberg?”…The growth you’ve seen is just a prelude for things to come. Albemarle County currently has the highest rate of job growth, and consequently, the lowest rate of unemployment in Virginia. This could mean big things for our area especially sprawl.Interesting albeit short article at WCAV.

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