McIntire Business Park has been sold, Brian McNeill reports in today’s Daily Progress, and new owner Keith Woodard has a lot of changes in mind. The ten-acre complex has been owned by the company that built it for half a century, and it’s started to change in the past decade. It’s functioned basically as light industrial throughout my memory, changing to include things like Circa, Cville Coffee and Blue Ridge Yoga as downtown rents have gone up. It’s often difficult to find parking for Cville Coffee, presumably because the business park just wasn’t designed to be a destination. Interestingly, there are a half dozen apartments on site, and Woodard is interested in adding even more. Woodard says he doesn’t want to make any radical changes, he just wants to make it better.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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I like Cville Coffee, but nowadays I usually head deep into the heart of the business park to Shenandoah Joe, where parking is abundant. But the again, I prefer my coffee in a bag instead of a cup.