Opened in 1976, the Charlottesville Downtown Mall has survived long enough to be named historic. Along with 10 other sites, the experiment in urbanism spanning at least eight blocks of Main Street was ...

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the creation of Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, the city is looking ahead to the next 50 years and beyond. The mall has been an economic engine for the city, as ...

One month after some board members pushed back on a proposal to freshen a century-old advertisement for Coca-Cola, the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review has unanimously approved a plan to ...

Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar on Charlottesville‘s Downtown Mall entertains its Tea Club members with monthly tastings, while nearby New Dominion Bookshop offers story times and “Friday Night Writes,” an ...

The City of Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department will be removing nine trees on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. Trees have been selected for removal due to concerns about the health and ...

WHY: Rock and stroll, drink to Dave Matthews, and ice, ice skate. HOW FAR: A half-mile from start to finish, and about 115 miles from Washington. There's nothing pedestrian about Charlottesville's ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Eryn Brennan says local history can subsist as new buildings spring up, just not when structures are completely erased. She cites the Downtown Mall, a healthy building mixture of ...