Monthly Archive for July, 2010

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Local Man Buys Ice Park, Intact

In this week’s Hook, Courteney Stuart explains how 29-year-old businessman Mark Brown came to acquire the Ice Park. He bought it last week for $3M, and intends to keep it closed it for the summer while he has some modifications made to the facility. Brown is taking the financial leap that the prior owners could never justify: installing a removable rink floor, so that it can be closed and rented out each summer as a general-use large venue. (The rink alone is three times larger than The Omni’s ballroom.) It’s slated to re-open on September 15.

C-Ville Thinks Feds Want Bel Rio Owner

Is the FBI looking for Jim Baldi?  #

WINA Uses Communist City Seal

Really, WINA? (Screenshot, for posterity.)  #

Local Boy Makes Good

Charlottesville blogger Jamelle Bouie is getting famous.  #

The Progress Goes to Michigan

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.  #