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Region Sheds 500 Jobs

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 14, 2008 in Business. 11 Comments

Our area has lost five hundred jobs in the past year, Brian McNeill writes in today’s Daily Progress. That decline of 0.5% is the worst of any of the state’s nine largest metropolitan areas. What the Progress doesn’t tell us is where these 500 jobs disappeared from, since there have been no major layoffs in the area. Small-scale job losses have recently occurred, or are soon coming, from LexisNexis, Circuit City, and Luck Stone, but that’s a) not part of these numbers and b) just a drop in the bucket.

9pm Update: I’m a moron. McNeill wrote: “The Charlottesville region’s lost jobs over the past year were primarily in the construction and manufacturing industries.” It makes sense that this area, a part of the growth boom (especially Fluvanna), would fall particularly hard as the bubble collapsed.

Danielson, Minor Can’t Agree on Whether They’re Building a Hotel

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 13, 2008 in Business and Development. 13 Comments

Things have gotten strange between Lee Danielson and Halsey Minor over the Landmark Hotel, Brian McNeill writes in today’s Daily Progress. Minor says that the bank has pulled their funding and construction has stopped. Lee Danielson—and anybody walking the site by yesterday—says that, in fact, construction is ongoing. Both Danielson and the bank say that there’s no funding problem. When asked what to make of Minor’s comments, Danielson told McNeill “I suggest you Google him and see what else he’s gotten up to.” And when Minor was asked about Danielson’s comments, Minor said “He can go and do his thing—I’m just not going to engage.”

What is it about Lee Danielson that causes his business partners to flee from him? (I can guess.)

11/14 Update: Will Goldsmith writes in C-Ville that Minor says that he’s canned Danielson. Danielson has no public response, and the job manager says that while money was a problem, it’s resolved now.

Second 64 Shooter Sentenced

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 10, 2008 in Law and Justice. Closed

Route 64 shooter Slade Allen Woodson has been sentenced to two years in prison, Tony Gonzalez reports in the Waynesboro News Virginian. Woodson was the brains behind the operation, to use the term “brains” generously; the younger of the duo was sentenced in July. The two were arrested one day after their shooting spree on 64, west of town. The only damage was to property, though two people were slightly injured by broken glass.

Garrett Business Owners Want More Parking

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 10, 2008 in Business and Transportation. 78 Comments

Business owners on Garrett Street are sad that people have to walk a block to get to the parking garage, Rachana Dixit wrote in yesterday’s Daily Progress. Though there’s lots of on-street parking, it’s all-day, and is often filled up by commuters by 9:00 AM. The city plans to turn fifteen of those spaces into two-hour spaces in spring, but some business owners don’t want to wait that long. Of course, once those become two-hour spaces, expect commuters to be angry at their loss of parking.

Hereford College’s Mini-Farm

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 10, 2008 in UVa. 1 Comment

UVa’s Hereford College has started a mini-farm, Tasha Kates reported in yesterday’s Daily Progress. The 800 square foot garden, maintained by members of the university community, fits in with a recent course on alternative food production. Now students are working on creating another garden, this one a half-acre in size, with some of the resulting food passed along to area soup kitchens.

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