Category: Infrastructure
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Restored DTM Chairs Discovered in City Storage
A recent C-ville Weekly article seemed to suggest that if we wanted more chairs like the ones on the DTM the City would have to order new ones: C-Ville Weekly: “…According to [City spokesperson Brian] Wheeler, if the community wanted to add more wooden chairs to the mall, or even “a different type of bench…
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Mall Crossings: problems caused by ‘design limbo’
In the debate about the mall vehicle crossings, I see a lot of people taking about the fact that other pedestrian malls across the country have vehicle crossings, like Peal Street in Boulder, Colorado or Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace, as if they were the same as ours….but its worth mentioning that these and other remaining…
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DTM 2030: Will Charlottesville’s Pedestrian Mall Survive in the Long Run?
Hold on now! We all love our DTM, but allow me to indulge in some hypotheticals… It’s been interesting to note that many of the reasons that business owners on the mall have for insisting that the crossings at 4th and 2nd street remain open to traffic — less congestion around the mall, easy access…
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DTM Awaiting Recommendations for 4th & 2nd Street Crossings
Business owners on the DTM spoke loud and clear across social media– some might say, freaked out — about the idea of closing the two DTM crossings at 4th and 2nd Streets, prompted by a petition a private citizen created….which appears to have been removed. But they may have to live with the results of…
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Saying Goodbye: Main Street Arena Architect Reflects on its Demolition
Local restoration architect Henry J. Browne, now in his 80s, has been stopping in for coffee at the restaurant at the Omni Hotel this past week, not necessarily for the coffee, but for the view it provides of the building across the way that he designed over 20 years ago, and which is about to…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SPRINT PAVILION TO UNDERGO CONSTRUCTION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 22, 2018 SPRINT PAVILION TO UNDERGO CONSTRUCTION Replacement of original fabric roof to start November 1st (Charlottesville) The Sprint Pavilion will be undergoing construction this winter to replace the original fabric roof. This work will involve shutting off pedestrian access thru the venue during the construction period from the first…
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Dewberry’s Rat Hotel: Could the Charlottesville eyesore cause serious injury?
The infamous Rat Hotel in Boston was a deteriorating, crappy dive back in the 1970s and 80s, but at least it hosted bands like the Cars, Talking Heads, the B-52s, The Ramones, and The Police. Our deteriorating, crappy Rat Hotel just hosts rats. According to sources who work close to Atlanta-based developer John Dewberry’s “Landmark”…
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Park & Hide: Downtown parking meter program halted, but downtown parking problem remains
While many people and businesses are happy that the parking meter program downtown has been suspended, everyone seems to have forgotten why it was implemented in the first place: to reduce congestion downtown and make it easier to find a place to park. As a 2008 downtown parking study determined, parking availability wasn’t necessarily the…
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NYC bound? Starlight Express gets handy West Main stop
The Starlight Express, our coolest and cheapest way to get to New York City, has secured a bus stop within walking distance of the DTM (or a short distance on the Free Trolley), atop the steps to the Amtrak station on the eastern end of the Drewary Brown Bridge. The location is a partnership with…
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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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