The Fontaine Research Center will be the home of the University of Virginia’s new biotechnology center. The city of Charlottesville is upzoning Fontaine Avenue east of the county line. In recent years, some changes have been made with the road’s intersection with U.S. 29. With traffic volumes expected to change, VDOT has a plan to…
Albemarle County has received funding to convert three more intersections to roundabouts. In the past year, roundabouts have opened at the intersections of both Route 20 and Proffit Road and U.S. 250 and Route 151. VDOT will advertise all three under one package.
In the last edition of this newsletter, I provided more detail about several projects under construction at the University of Virginia. There are many different silos of information, and part of the mission of this newsletter is to provide more context as I try to put the pieces together. Take a look back at one of…
Charlottesville is a community in transition with growth on many people’s minds as a new zoning code is written to allow a lot more places to live. The city government has also struggled in recent years to deliver transportation projects on time. At their work session on March 6, City Council met the new transportation…
The City of Charlottesville has received three bids from construction firms who want to work on the renovation of Buford Middle School, two of which have base prices below the planned budget of around $78 million. However, all three are above that budgeted amount when their prices for four additional items are factored in. This…