Author: David McNair
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Vintage DTM: along First and Main
This photograph, taken in the last years before the downtown pedestrian mall was constructed, shows the signage of stores along Main Street. The shops seen here are at First and Main and the first two blocks of West Main Street. While none of these businesses remain today, most of the buildings still stand along the…
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A taste of a Taste of India
For years I wrote The Dish restaurant column for The Hook, but this week marks the first time I’ve written about a restaurant for C-Ville Weekly, and it just happens to be a relatively new arrival on the DTM — Dave McNair “August 26, 2013 was a momentous day for Taste of India’s manager Kamal…
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Blasts from the past: “Vintage DTM” photo series
The DTM is pleased to welcome a new feature to the site called “Vintage DTM.” Photographer Steve Trumbull‘s website C’ville Images features vintage images of Charlottesville and tells the stories behind the pictures. We will be showing some of these photos here on a regular basis with a focus on Downtown and Main Street, today’s DTM. You…
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Blighted: Dewberry gets served
Looks like the City is putting its foot down with Atlanta-based developer John Dewberry, who fired off a testy letter when officials here suggested he better secure the Landmark Hotel structure and hurry the project along. As this notice on the Landmark Hotel shows, the unfinished hotel structure is now a “blighted property.” “I sent…
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The Collaborator: Silverman remembered
No one perhaps meant more to the success of the DTM than developer Gabe Silverman, who died on November 10 of a cardiac arrest at the age of 73. Architect and design planner Katie Swenson, who moved to Charlottesville in large part because of Silverman and spent 11 years here, offers a remembrance, one of…
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Sweet development: book store makes way for DTM chocolate shop
Paintings and Prose will be moving out of its location at 406 East Main Street this week, making way for My Chocolate Shoppe, which offers hand-crafted specialty chocolates in 29 different flavor combinations. Painting and Prose bookstore and gallery is, ah, the brain child of Virginia NeuroCare Inc., a brain injury services program funded by…
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Bridge Talk. Be there.
On Thursday, November 21 at CitySpace on the DTM there will be a public meeting on the Belmont Bridge replacement/enhancement project. Some want to do something unique and special here, like not have a bridge at all but an underpass, or something along the lines of what NYC did with its High Line Park (repurposing…
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History lessons: Mall buildings preserved, but who to thank?
For years, the facades of 101-111 East Main Street looked decrepit, but property owner and developer Keith Woodard has finally rehabilitated them and added 11 new apartments, as recently reported by the Newsplex. But then this comment by Woodard stuck out: “About 10 or 15 years ago another developer purchased the building and proposed to…
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“Boston Bound” premieres on the DTM
Unfortunate that most of the recent round-ups from local media about the Virginia Film Festival don’t mention local filmmaker Anwar Allen, whose debut docu Boston Bound premieres at the Regal 4 Downtown Mall on Thursday, November 7 at 7:45pm. So we mention it here. The film is about a group of Charlottesville runners who ran…
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Pond Scum or Dog Poop? Daily Show segment visits the DTM
Priceless segment on the Daily Show about the gubernatorial race between Cuccinelli and Mcauliffe, featuring our own Larry Sabato and folks on the DTM. Sabato calls the two candidates “some of the worst I’ve ever seen,” and reveals that one voter he talked to compared them to a choice between “cancer and a heart attack.”…
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