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Another local business has been hit by the bad economy– Rug Depot on U.S. 29 north across from Wal-Mart. In business for 10 years, the store will close at the end of March, says owner Mahmood Pasha, who’s advertising Persian rugs up to 90 percent off.
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The financially troubled multi-millionaire fast becoming known for what his opponents blast as preemptive lawsuits has filed another. This time, a Halsey Minor suit has landed right here in Charlottesville. C-ville Weekly has the story.
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The drive-thru bill-pay window at the Albemarle County Office Building is the latest victim of the economic crisis. Despite a proposed eight percent hike in the property tax rate, the County’s hiring freeze means that there aren’t enough clerks in the finance department to keep the window open, says County spokesperson Lee Catlin. However, as tax time looms in late May and early June, the window (shown here February 25) will probably reopen temporarily, Catlin says.
Premo Auto Body, a nearly five-year-old firm operating in Belmont, has become the first in town to offer BASFs “Glasurit 90” line of water-based paints. “That’s just safer for the environment, safer for our employees, and better for the car,” says bookkeeper Dreama Walker, who notes that many manufacturers, including Mercedes, have switched from solvent-based to more eco-friendly water-based paints.
UVA law professor Jon Cannon, who until recently served on the Albemarle Planning Commision, has been selected for the second-in-command position of deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, subject to U.S. Senate confirmation. If approved, Cannon will take a leave of absence from the Law School.
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Despite a mountain of miserable news lately about the housing market and a growing list of unfinished houses on the auction block, there is at least one hopeful sign in the Ridge Street neighborhood, where Staunton-based contractor Mark Stables began framing a single family home yesterday.
Isn’t that the store that has been holding a going out of business sale since it opened?
yes Music Lover, that’s true. They pull that sign out every once in awhile, presumably when business is slow.
Smart on their part. They aren’t going anywhere.
I heard New York Carpet World has had to mark everything half off.