Author Archive for Waldo Jaquith

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Gravity Lounge Crushed by Debt

Published by Waldo Jaquith on February 5, 2009 in In Brief. 15 Comments

Gravity Lounge will go out of business without $200k. #

City Assessments, Not Increasing So Much

Published by Waldo Jaquith on February 4, 2009 in In Brief. Closed

The city points out that assessments didn’t go up nearly as much as NBC 29 claimed—it’s assessments on new construction that pull up the average. #

Bricks for Sale

Published by Waldo Jaquith on February 4, 2009 in In Brief. 1 Comment

Charlottesville is selling old Downtown Mall bricks to recoup some construction costs. Great thinking. #

BoS Won’t Back Local Food Distribution

Published by Waldo Jaquith on February 4, 2009 in In Brief. 3 Comments

Albemarle County won’t be backing a local food hub, saying that they don’t feel comfortable getting involved so early in the organization’s development. #

Council to Experiment with Park-and-Ride

Published by Waldo Jaquith on February 3, 2009 in Business and Transportation. 37 Comments

The whole of Council wants to create a park-and-ride for downtown, Rachana Dixit writes in today’s Daily Progress. The great majority of downtown time-limited parking is in use by commuters, who shuffle their cars around every couple of hours, now that all-day free parking has been largely eliminated from downtown. Council wants to experiment with a commuter-timed bus line that runs from a spacious, free parking lot on the edge of town to downtown, and see if folks prefer that to dealing with the two-hour shuffle.