A couple of proposed Downtown Mall redesigns are available now.
Sideblog
- Jim Baldi is accused of stealing federal tax withholdings from his clients' employees. #
- The Coca-Cola bottling plant on Preston is closing down. Like the USPS, they're relocating services to Sandston. #
- Is the FBI looking for Jim Baldi? #
- Really, WINA? (Screenshot, for posterity.) #
- Charlottesville blogger Jamelle Bouie is getting famous. #
- The Progress has sent Brian McNeill to Michigan to cover Oliver Kuttner's X Prize attempt. I can't remember the last time the DP sent a reporter more than a few hours from C'ville. Good for them. #
- Leslie Macko, of Charlottesville, stood with the president in the Rose Garden yesterday as an example of somebody who needs unemployment benefits extended. #
- It's not a drought yet, it just seems like it. #
- Here are the documents unsealed in the Yeardley Love case. The Post summarizes them. #
- A Forest Lakes resident, angered by the culling of Canada geese to prevent plane crashes: "It's just so redneck." Um. #
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This is a community news blog about Charlottesville, VA, USA, started in March of 2001. It's run by Waldo Jaquith. It has nothing to do with C-Ville Weekly, the newspaper. Feel free to submit a story.
Whee! Let’s spend millions and millions of dollars for something that nobody really wants and that everyone will decry as a big pain in the butt to deal with.
Classic Charlottesville.
A four-year development project is certain to affect downtown. I can see a drying up of the vendors and some of the outdoor cafes. The eight-month 3rd Street NE is certainly putting a hurting on those businesses and they won’t be helped by the re-bricking project either. To tell the truth, I’m surprised that the project isn’t much more aggressive in design changes. I guess the City didn’t take my bite when I suggested that they sponsor another design contest like the one last Fall for the flat parking lot on Water Street. Considering the amount of money they’re spending, they probably should have.
The drawings of the alternatives are almost illegible. When you can see the whole mall, all the detail is fuzzed out so I can’t read it. It doesn’t get sharp until you zoom in to only see half of a side street, and nothing else. A simple GIF, JPEG, or PDF instead of Flash would make this so much more usable.