Charlottesville Blog Carnival
I will be hosting the Charlottesville Blog Carnival this Friday. If you have seen any posts that are particularly resonant, pithy or intriguing, please email me. Submission deadline is Thursday at 9pm. Anoop Ranganath will be hosting next week. Volunteers for the week after?
Too much retail in CharlAlbemarle?
SELC thinks so. The 19 page PDF makes for fairly interesting reading. When I finish it, I'll post more. With soaring gas prices, maybe that trip to Short Pump won't be so appealing and staying home to shop will be more economical. What do you…
How will fuel prices affect development?
In many, many ways. My prediction is that telecommuting and higher-density developments will become much more prominent in the next five to ten years, due the forces of economics and necessity. What incentive will people have to commute great distances for their jobs? QandO reports…
Green trends poised for take-off
Green building starts to really take off! According to a recent survey conducted by NAHB and McGraw Hill Construction, there has been a 20 percent increase since last year in builders dedicated to green building issues. The number is expected to rise by another 30…
Charlottesville Blog Carnival
The Charlottesville Blog Carnival is hosted this week by Duane Gran. Next week's carnival will be hosted here. If you see a particularly fascinating or insightful (or not) post between now and next Thursday at 7pm, please email me. Golly, what's a carnival? If you…
May Newsletter is out!
The May Newsletter is finally complete. Please email me if you would like a copy.
5th Street/Avon Road coming soon?
If only ... A major feature of the project will be a developer-funded public road that will link Fifth Street and Avon Street Extended, a connection that the County is eager to see—especially now that the massive Biscuit Run development has County drivers fretting about…
CAAR’s 1st Quarter market report
CAAR has released their first quarter market report and David Hendrick with the DP analyzes this morning the changes in the market. The seemingly dramatic increase in inventory can be attributed partially to the large number of condo conversions in the market - one response…
Connected communities
As our region continues to grow, each area has its own perspective on how to handle growth - Why the focus on so many counties? Simple - they are all connected. The land-use decisions in Louisa will impact the real estate market in CharlAlbemarle -…