the corner district

409 fight: Developers square off over City parcel sale

The parcel lies west of the new South Lawn project (still a parking lot in this old image). GOOGLE MAPS Two prominent Charlottesville businesspeople squared

Rich rain: But little flooding despite nearly 2" overnight

Here's the 9:28am look of one low-water area in Charlottesville, the CSX bridge over Main and 14th Streets. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The s

Snap: Walking to the Corner

View from inside the UVA eye clinic in the old hospital building. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER A lone pedestrian walks toward the Corner 9:46am, Thursday, August

Head-shop hit: Attack--- and response--- stun Corner shop owners

Seth Meachum decided to install security cameras after his father was attacked in Roots Rock Reggae. PHOTO BY COURTENEY STUART Lloyd Meachum never saw it coming.

Corner history book set for re-release

The Corner was first published in 2001. PHOTOS BY HAWES SPENCER After several years of unavailability,

The de facto historian of UVA student and town life, Coy Barefoot, has assembled an array of then-and-now photographs of UVA-area Charlottesville scenes for your viewing pleasure in the latest edition of the alumni magazine.

Snap: Remaking the crosswalks

A contractor jack-hammers out a cobblestoney set of concrete pavers Wednesday, December 16, installed as part of an early 1990s Corner district overhaul.

Fluids spill on the Corner

A trash truck suffered a malfunction Wednesday morning that coated the intersection of University Avenue and the Corner Parking Lot with hydraulic fluid, according to an officer working the scene.