Deal On Square Parking Likely
CSX railroad has informed Albemarle County that it is willing to surrender its claim on part of The Square, White Hall Supervisor Ann Mallek told the Crozet Community Advisory Council at its June 16...
View ArticleUpdates at the Modern Barber Shop
Troy Miller recently replaced the defunct 78-year-old barber pole outside the Modern Barber Shop as a birthday present for his wife, Lisa, the third generation of her family to work in the shop. Both...
View ArticleCrozet Gazette Office Open in Downtown Crozet
The Crozet Gazette has a new office in the Blue Goose Building on Crozet Avenue between La Cocina and the Crozet United Methodist Church. The office is on the first floor. Hours are by appointment...
View ArticleNew Push to Create Crozet Historic District
The lion’s share of the architectural documentation needed to qualify Crozet’s older sections as a state and national historic district was finished in 2008 but the final application papers that would...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning
Members of the Crozet Garden Club weeded and pruned the embankments at the railroad trestle in Downtown Crozet in February, getting them ready for spring. The murals in the underpass will be cleaned...
View ArticleBarnes Lumber Goes Into Foreclosure
J. Bruce Barnes Lumber Company will go on the auction block June 27 after Union First Market Bank decided to foreclose on the wholesale hardwood supplier, which for decades has been one of Crozet’s...
View ArticleCounty Gets Possession of The Square
After years of disputes over who owned The Square, the central parking lot of downtown Crozet, CSX railroad legally transferred ownership to Albemarle County in July. The move means efforts to improve...
View ArticleBark Avenue, Crozet’s First Pet Salon
Who knew Crozet needed a pet salon? Patti Siehien did and so she opened one. A registered nurse who changed careers, she’s been in the dog grooming business for five years. This spring, Siehien moved...
View ArticleClaudius Place To Get Underway Downtown This Month
The long-anticipated Claudius Place, the first private commercial investment in downtown Crozet in a long time, will break ground before the end of February, according to developer Katurah Roell. The...
View ArticleThe Lumber Warehouses Vanish
David Cline of Cline Contracting, based in Broadway, is dismantling the last two steel buildings that Barnes Lumber Company used to store its kiln-dried lumber. Cline said he found a date in one...
View ArticleDowntown Crozet Association to Become Crozet Board of Trade
The officers of the Downtown Crozet Association voted in February to change the organization’s name to the Crozet Board of Trade and to broaden its agenda to represent all western Albemarle businesses...
View ArticleUtility Relocation Begins First Phase of Crozet Avenue Project
Dominion Virginia Power has begun a project to remove its overhead power lines and poles from Crozet Avenue through downtown and to supply electricity to buildings there through buried lines....
View ArticleProspective Buyer of Lumberyard Seeks Zoning Rule Change
A prospective buyer of the 19-acre former Barnes Lumber Company property in downtown Crozet has asked county planning officials for a rule change in the Downtown Crozet District zoning that would allow...
View ArticleCrozet Shopping Center Repairs
The parking lot of the Crozet Shopping Center will be rejuvenated this month. Heavily trafficked sections will be milled and resurfaced and the rest resealed and restriped. A new drainage system will...
View ArticleCrozet Avenue Streetscape Project to Begin This Month—Really
The removal of the utility poles and wires from Crozet Avenue’s downtown stretch during January satisfied the Virginia Department of Transportation’s last condition for authorizing work on the...
View ArticleSecrets of the Blue Ridge: Breaking the Bank, but not the Spirit, of Crozet
By Phil James When the good townspeople of Crozet crawled into bed on that Monday evening in September 1908, there were high hopes for a sweet night’s rest. The day’s increasing clouds had culminated...
View ArticleCCAC Reacts to Barnes Lumber Report
The Crozet Community Advisory Council cleared its March 20 agenda to discuss among themselves a proposal from developer Frank Stoner for the Barnes Lumber property after receiving the county planning...
View ArticleCCAC Reviews Planning Report on Barnes Proposal
The Crozet Community Advisory Council met with county planner Claudette Grant April 17 to discuss her report on a proposal by developer Frank Stoner to develop the Barnes Lumber property. “The county...
View ArticleStoner Defers Planning Commission Vote on Barnes Plan Until August
Facing what appeared to be a rejection by the Albemarle County Planning Commission June 19, developer Frank Stoner of Milestone Partners requested a deferral until August 5 of the commission’s vote on...
View ArticleThe Lumber Warehouses Vanish
David Cline of Cline Contracting, based in Broadway, is dismantling the last two steel buildings that Barnes Lumber Company used to store its kiln-dried lumber. Cline said he found a date in one...
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