The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - CVille May Ask AlbCo For $10M For Homeless Shelter?; Should Albemarle Give Money To 2000 Holiday Dr?

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: CVille May Ask AlbCo For $10M For Homeless Shelter? Should Albemarle Give Tax Money To 2000 Holiday Drive? Consultants Say 501 Cherry Ave Stinks For Grocery Store Bad Delivery Access & Waste Removal, Too Small Global Media Pub Ranks CVille #3 “Luxury Housing Market” Belmont Market Sells In 7-Figure Deal, Here’s What’s Next… UVA Wins Program’s 20th Men’s Lax Championship Contact Charlottesville Business Brokers To Buy/Sell Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Good Monday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville Show, fired up, fresh, feeling good in downtown in Charlottesville, less than two miles from the Jopal Jones Arena and the University of Virginia. We are the water cooler of conversation and content for Charlottesville, for the Commonwealth, for the country in the world, and there's a lot to cover on the broadcast today. Gasoline price is still well above $4. They're not coming down anytime soon. Belmont Market has traded hands in a seven-figure deal. Consultants of the national variety have been paid by nonprofits, by neighborhood associations, and a for-profit developer. And their report is back. And guess what? 501 Cherry Avenue is a piss-poor location for a grocery store. It took thousands of dollars of money to pay consultants to give you

what the I Love Seville Show gives you for free every day. It's too small. It's got not enough customers. There's not enough access for food delivery. There is no setup for waste removal. There is no demand or no market for a grocery store in Fifeville. Yet they continue to try to move forward. It's absolute insanity doing the same thing over and over and over again. expecting a different result is not insanity. It's idiocy. We'll talk about it on the program today. I want to discuss on the show today, City Hall, preparing to ask Alamaral County for a lot of money for 2,000 Holiday Drive. Not only are we years away from a homeless shelter at 2,000 Holiday Drive, but our sources inside City Hall say, an ask of up to $10 million may happen to neighboring jurisdiction

Almore County that is flush with Cass. Remember, this is $10 million potentially on top of the revenue sharing agreement. If you're in Al Morrow County and you're listening to what I'm saying right now, how are you feeling knowing that Al Morrow County is allocating $22 million for revenue sharing and City Hall is preparing to ask your Board of Supervisors and your county executive for up to $10 million for a homeless shelter on Holiday Drive that will not come online for at least two, maybe three years from now. Geez, Louise, Hells Bells.

We'll talk about that on the program today. I want to talk a global media platform, a global publication ranking Charlottesville, Judah, the third most significant luxury market in all of the United States of America. This will shock you. A global media publication has now ranked for the year, 26, Charlottesville, Virginia, the number three luxury market in all of the country. I mean, Madre Carajo already.

Enough with these national rankings that just flood carpetbaggers and yankers. Yankees and Californians and Northern Virginians to our fine and fair city. We don't need any more of them. Number three, luxury market in the area. In the national ranking, they literally say this, to a buyer coming from San Jose, which is ranked number five on the list, or San Diego, which is ranked number seven in the list, to a buyer coming from New York City, from Greenwich, Connecticut,

or even from northern Virginia, luxury starts at $3 million bare minimum. So the Admiral County in City of Charlottesville luxury that's at $1.5 million to $2 million seems cheap as duck. Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. Number three on the effing list. No more lists. We don't want any more lists here.

So much to cover on the program. Did I mention? bought a bodega in Belmont? Dude, I used to live in effing Belmont, what, 21, let's see, 2004, 2004 out of UVA. Then 2004 to 2005, me and my buddies who were broke jokes. We live in Oxford Hills, apartments across from Booker T. Washington Park on Preston Avenue. I was trying to rub two nickels together and make a quarter so I can buy a 12 pack of natural light. After a year in Oxford Hills, we're like,

we got to get out of the UVA bubble, so we went to Little Graves in Belmont. Four of us in a two-bedroom house, we convinced one of our buddies, Shannon, to climb a rope ladder and live in an attic that had no air condition or no heat. Still, he got Cheekas to climb up the rope ladder with him for a little boomshops.

That was 2004 to 5. So I'm talking 2005 to 6. I lived in Belmont, Judah, 21 years ago. First moved to Little Graves, 21 years ago. And 21 years ago, at the end of Belmont, there was a shed owned by a bunch of shifflets and Morrises. They had a eight-foot Brunswick pool table in there. Walked down to the Brunswick pool table with Lucy, the beautiful brown dog, a chow-chow German Shepherd, mix. I'm like, what are these guys doing here in this shed, these shifflets and these morrises? It's like 2 p.m. on a Saturday. They're pounding Budwisers and blasting in Garth Brooks. I walk down there looking for trouble per usual with Lucy. I walk in the shed and there's a Brunswick pool table in like a capital shed. I'm like, oh, I shoot pool. One of the ways I've

paid my way through college. Next thing I know I'm playing. eight ball running racks with these shifflets and morseys pounding Budweiser. Not in my head to some Garth Brooks while Lucy's running around the pool table eating peanut shells and licking tobacco juice off the cement floor. 90 minutes in after these shiflets and morsees catch a buzz. The next thing I know they're chopping stuff up on the railing. Like, eh, I don't know you that well. I don't need to hit the slopes right now. This was 21 years ago, ladies and gentlemen. 21 years ago. Now, the Belmont Market, the bodega,

where I used to go and buy chopped up natural light 12 packs, the kind where it was literally a case cut in half, and 12 beers kept in with plastic masking tape. I used to buy those 12 packs for what, like, I think it was like $5.99? $6.99?

It just traded last week in a seven-figure deal. We have all that story for you on I Love Seaville. If you're an insider, $8 a month, you get real estate transactions and all the deal flow that's moving and shaken that no other media platform is reporting upon. And I'm going to straight up, look at this camera. Am I on this shot right here?

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asados. Newly remodeled and renovated mastapas, by the way. Fantastic. The look and feel over there. Headline, most intrigues you and why? It's a real shame that 501 Cherry is having so much trouble. Okay, go ahead and make your point. I'm not going to try to throw shade on your perspective here.

You're right. I asked for it. It's a shame that 501 Cherry Avenue is having trouble. The place, the location, the site, the parcel, the development opportunity that I've talked for 18 months on this show, that it was going to be disastrous for a grocery store, explained why it was going to be disastrous for a grocery store. But it is a shame that a consulting firm has now issued its report. That report has now been released to the community

that the former Kim's market, the former IGA location, is not a good fit for a grocery store moving forward. Why is it a shame? I don't think anybody was opposed to it in terms of in terms of wanting something good for the for the Fifeville neighborhood. And so, yeah, it's a shame that it's not working out. It's a shame that the city put money into this

and looks like it'll go nowhere. I'm not sure how they're going to change this up. Maybe they'll turn the space into more affordable housing. we broke the news on the I Love Seville show and still it is unreported by legacy media. We showed a highlight video, a sizzle reel. Maybe it's a low light, maybe it's a highlight, of Sunshine Mathan, the Piedmont Housing Alliance executive director,

asking for approval from city council for taxpayer money to purchase 501 Cherry Avenue from Woodard Properties. Do we have that video? I don't think we do have it readily available. Can you get that sometime today so we can potentially play it into a story for our insiders? Yeah, I think so. Piedmont Housing Alliance is now purchasing the old Kim's Market and IGA from Woodard Properties. The best thing that Woodard Properties has done in 2026 so far is sprint away as fast as

humanly possible from 501 Cherry Avenue as if it was a house burning down. and the only thing that they could rescue would be their wife, their kids, and their family dog, Leroy Brown. They're sprinting away from smoke that's burning through the chimney, out the windows, out the front door, watching all their memories crumble to ash. Monday morning, a national consulting firm.

Seven Roots. Legitimately a grocery consulting firm of the national variety that specializes in upside and downside for grocery store locations. They provided a report to the Charlottesville Food Co-op that was going to try to run and manage the grocery store. That report was released to the public this morning. And in this report, the National Food Co-op said, the national consultant told the food co-op that the location is too small. the access for food delivery trucks is horrible there's zero strategy or plan for waste management and waste removal it's connected with the with what the what the tenants will get will have

the delivery access the waste removal two non-negotiables are absolutely putrid and miserable the footprint can't work there's not enough customers, and why in God's name would you enter into the grocery store space when grocery stores are barely scraping by? And that's with economies of scale and the efficiencies of vertical integration on a number of different profit centers and strategies. And still, the Fifeville Neighborhood Association, Piedmont Housing Alliance, and this co-op are trying to push forward. Still.

And you know, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is not about empathy at this point. This is not about kindness at this point. This is not about if we work hard, we can make this work. Look, if you're 5 foot 8, 155 pound, half American and half Cuban with limited jumping ability, there's only so much that you can do to turn yourself into a professional national basketball association superstar of course i would like to be lebron james of course i would love to be kobe bryant of course i would love to be luca donich of course i would love to be austin reeves i'm a five-foot-eight half-american half-cuban that has a seven-inch vertical and limited ball handling ability, a jump shot that's pure, but when you've got seven inches of rise,

you're not going to get it off on any day. I can work hard to be a pro basketball player, but there's limitations that are going to prevent it from happening. You can work hard to make a grocery store. You can find a co-op that's never run a grocery store to be your operator and your manager. You can bring in a nonprofit Piedmont Housing Alliance to try to subsidize it,

offer intel, offer strategy, do the heavy lifting. You can do a deal with a developer that's local, wooded properties that's trying to do the right job, the right plan of attack. You can get money of the taxpayer variety given to you by city council to the expense of taxpayers to the tune of one cent real estate tax rate increases

to fund dreams like this. You can do all these things, all these maneuverings, but when you are a five foot eight, half Cuban, half American, with a seven-inch vertical, there's only so much that you can do. And if we continue down this road, it's not doing the same thing over and over again is the definition of insanity.

It's the definition of idiocy. And there's got to be someone that's reasonable that says enough already. You saw the developer, the owner of the property. We broke this news for you. Still not a single legacy media platform has reported upon this. Woodard Properties has sprinted away from this. They have been hemorrhaging $20,000 a month in interest payment

since they purchased 501 Cherry Avenue in 2022 August, August of 2022. Sunshine-Mathan literally spilled the beans in a city council meeting. No one was there to hear it except for us. now Piedmont Housing Alliance is going to go and try to buy this to try to walk on water and take a few loaves of bread and the fishes and the feed the thousands in the Fifeville neighborhood. Do we say go ahead and do it? Is that what we say? Do we take the stance that you had? Do we take the stance that you had? It's a shame. Yeah. It's a shame. Do what you can. I mean, I think the hard pill to swallow here is that you've got a, I would imagine they have to go back to the drawing board on the whole thing. Because if the grocery store doesn't work, what do you do? Do you just build it out? And that's why Woodard properties left. And that's why Wooder properties left. You just hit it right there. look at the carrying costs.

Yeah. And now you've got to spend how much on an architect, on consultants, redesign, redesigns, site planning, strategy, meetings. This is why if you're a developer locally, and I say this to any developer that's watching this program, and they all do. Do not ever do what this Pandora's box just opened. Just if you need to bring something to market, pay into a, an affordable housing account or fund.

Don't ever create a joint venture like this one was done. Because it's been an absolute disaster. And the cherry on top is this consultant's report that's come in 12 to 18 months after this project was percolated. Yeah. I don't want to spend any more time on the cherry-avity thing. Fifell and Piedmont Housing Alliance and the food co-op, If you want to move forward with this, go ahead.

City Council, if you throw more money after this, you're throwing our good taxpayer money after bad. And then, city council, you will be held accountable on the I Love Seville Show. If you continue to fund this terrible project, you are taking taxpayer dollars at the same time of increasing real estate tax rates and taking good money and throwing it after bad, you are burning money. And speaking of money, the next headlines, got to be. be the first one. Seville might ask Almore accounting for $10 million to the 2000 holiday drive homeless shelter. By now you know if you watch the I Love Seville show that Charlottesville City Hall purchased for $6.2 million, a 27,000 square foot brick Georgian office building next to the bypass adjacent to the Aberdeen Barn. And they're going to convert this brick Georgian office building into a homeless shelter.

And initially it was billed, it was promoted, it was monikered as a, home to 215 homeless beds, 215 what, what I call them, beds, right? Beds, cots, it was in fourth quarter of last year, Q4 of last year, we're going to take $6.2 million of taxpayer money, and we're going to buy this building that's been on the market forever. It's been on the market forever. And we're going to do 215 beds here for people. Everyone was like, God, this is a great idea.

Let's get the homeless off the downtown mall. Let's get the homeless into climate-controlled shelter with wraparound services. Let's go. Now it's turned into a debacle. Now you have the Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless. You have Patcham and you have the Haven, three nonprofits, trying to corner the taxpayer money, these dollars. Patcham and the Blue Ridge Area Coalition for the Homeless and the Haven are like,

oh, $6.2 million they spent already. Then they're going to need another $14 million at least to bring it to market. And they're talking about maybe a million dollars or more to manage it. We need to get some of that money. So these three nonprofits are kind of cornering, kind of doing their politic and their lobbying. Guess what? Now city council realizes, holy crap, taking it an, office building and converting it into a homeless shelter is something we have no idea what we're

doing because we're not developers, we're not builders, we're not remodelers, we're not outfitters, or government. What are we doing here? Now the word is it's going to be 24 to 36 months before it comes online. And the scuttle butt I'm hearing from inside city hall is Charlotttsville's preparing to ask of Almaro County, potentially of $10 million to fund this. And the theory is, Charlestville's homeless are also Almoreal County's homeless because they're nomadic.

They migrate. They move around. And the theory is, hey, that shelter is right on the Almore County Charlottesville City line. It's right next to you. This is going to help you as well. We should identify all the places where the homeless people are coming from.

ask all of those places for money. $10 million each. On top of the revenue sharing agreement. Thank you. $10 million on top of the revenue sharing. On top of a revenue sharing agreement, and I looked into this, let me see if I could find it. Revenue sharing agreement specifics.

The 1982 revenue sharing agreement between Almore County and the city of Charlottesville is a legally binding contract that prevents the city from annexing county land in exchange for a significant formula-driven annual transfer of tax revenue from the county to the city. The effective date of this was July 1, 1982. The purpose was to prevent the city of Charlestville from initiating annexation procedures against Almore County, protecting the county's tax base from further shrinkage. The term is indefinite. No clear exit clause unless the two localities consolidate state law changes drastically are both parties mutually agree to cancel. That'll never happen. Funding mechanism. Both jurisdictions are required to contribute to a revenue and economic growth sharing fund based on real property tax revenue. In practice, this has always resulted in a net transfer from the county to the city. Here's the cap. The payment is capped. at 0.1% of the total assessed value of taxable real property in the county, equivalent to a maximum of 10 cents on the tax rate. The land valuation is calculated using the full fair market value of county property, even if that property is in the land use taxation program, tax at a lower rate.

In fiscal year, 26, that number was approaching $22 million. This represents an increase of roughly 13.6% over physical year 2025. Here's the predicament Almaro County is in. Are you ready? And I try to put this succinctly for everyone that's watching and listening to the show. I'm going to relay a story to you where a national publication has now ranked the Charlottesville area is the number three luxury market in the country. Well, we all know the true. luxury in the Charlottesville area is not in city limits. The true luxury in the Charlottesville area is in Almore County, and specifically along the following corridors, Ivy Road, Belair, Farmington,

Edom, Edom, Edom Forest, Floridian, to the 240, 250-250 split, which is the entry to Crozee, along Garth Road and the road's right off of Garth, Keswick and Keswick Estates, maybe you throw in some of Glenmore in there as well. That's where the luxury is in Almaro County. I'll throw a dabble of Earleysville, if you want, in the mix as well. Maybe a smidge of free union. The luxury is not in Charlottesville City.

And as Almaro County becomes more vivacious with its economy, biotechnology, new jobs associated with AstraZeneca, data science, Jeffrey Woodrus contribution, the data science school, Paul Manning's contribution, the biotechnology school, all these new jobs, the land value becomes more valuable. Valuable. So as Almaro County's real estate,

state, commercial and residential, becomes more valuable, it's going to contribute more money to Charlottesville City. So here, you legitimately have Charlestville, Virginia, maybe Charleston Virginia, you know what, I'm going to take a step back. Maybe Charlestville, Virginia is playing chess and Almore County is playing checkers. I mean, look at what Charlestville, Virginia has done. It's got the city. It's got Almore County by the Short and Curlies with a revenue sharing, agreement. Then Charlottesville City had the foresight to say, to say, well, why don't I build the homeless shelter right on the Alamara County city line? Why don't I build a homeless shelter right on the Almeral County city line? And if I do that, we can spook, leverage the

the county into paying for this. I think you're giving them way. And then we can say that the homeless are nomadic. And we can put like trackers on them to check their tracking patterns, almost as if they're like the wolves in Yellowstone Park. They're trying to re-assimilate the wolves into Yellowstone, and they have tracking mechanisms on them to watch their patterns, their movements. And our county is like, wait a minute, you're getting a percentage of our real estate.

What is going on here? You're getting 0.1% of our total assessed value of commercial and residential real estate. 0.1% in perpetuity. And on top of that, you built a homeless shelter on our city and county line. And you didn't even tell us that the homeless shelter was going to be built. the supervisors and the county executive Jeff Richardson found out about this homeless shelter from the Isle of Seville Show. Mike Pruitt said he found out about it on the Isle of Seville Show. And now you want us to give you some more money?

What's going on here? What would you do or how would you advise the city to respond? How would you advise the county to respond to the city? What would you say? Judah Wickham. Tell them to laugh in their face. Vanessa Parkhill's got comments. Deep throats got some comments. If you were some listeners, let us know your thoughts, and we'll relay I'm live on here. Vanessa Parkhill says, it would probably be, oh, there's a lot of comments coming in here.

Let me get to Vanessa's first. She's the queen of Orleansville. Super smart lady. The Admiral Board of Supervisors needs to just say no to city councils ask for more money. No more money over what they get via the revenue sharing agreement. No more for holiday drive. No more for anything. Tighten your belt if necessary. That's what the average taxpayer is doing. Vanessa also says the Kim's market property decision is at the top of my list as to why I prefer no more of my tax dollars.

Go to city projects. City council and staff are not responsible stewards of our tax dollars. She said it would probably be more cost effective for city council to provide vouchers for food delivery to the elderly and disabled than to back the Kim's Market Project. Deep throat watching the program, number one in the family. He along with the I Love Seville shows, affable and handsome host, have been saying, talking about Judah there, have been saying that the Kim's Market location is terrible. Here's what he says. Wait, a 7,000 square foot grocery store without parking and access in a low purchasing power neighborhood with low prices. Is it going to work? What? What?

No way. I just need to lay down. I'm fainting on my couch right now. How's that humanly possible? Question number one from Deep Throat. How do leaders and economic development staff not themselves come to this obvious conclusion? Question number two, why, if they don't know about this themselves, do they not at least have a listen to the many smart, knowledgeable people in town who are happy to share their expertise and observations of why Cherry Avenue would not make a good site for a grocery store? The counselors legitimately... How would we pay consultants to tell us those things? Do you think it's all a big collusion? Is that what you're alluding? That's what you're alluding to.

I don't think it's collusion. I don't think... What was the name of the group that delivered the news? Seven Roots. Seven Roots. I mean, does that have Charlottesville connections? Does it have connections to anyone in Charlottesville? I know Judah well enough to know that he's joking there.

I know Judah well enough to know, and maybe I don't want to speak for you, that you know that counsel and staff are not forward-thinking enough to collude any kind of back-end kickbacks. You agree with that? Yeah. And what would this accomplish anyways? This is just idiocy. This is worse than the back-end kickbacks in a lot of ways.

This is worse than... Okay, we just need, you know, we just need to do X. This is worse than... Pay these people that I'm related to, and we can get the whole thing going. This is just, well, you know, we just bought this project from someone else. Now we're doing a feasibility study, and we find it's not feasible, so... I mean, where do you go from that? The last city council meeting, two Mondays a week,

go. There's another one tonight. But two weeks ago, City Council approved Piedmont Housing Alliance to purchase 501 Cherry Avenue from wooded properties. We literally broke that news for you on this show and it's gone unreported anywhere else.

We'll put it behind, we'll publish it for insiders probably tomorrow so you can see the video in totality. Sunshine Maython, the executive director, asking counsel for millions and millions and millions of dollars of taxpayer money to buy 501 Cherry Avenue. Now they're going to eventually go back to counsel to ask for more money for this project. This is the third or fourth time that they've gone before leadership and asked for money. I'm worried they're going to ask for money to completely redesign the thing.

Charlottesville City's population is is dropping do viewers and listeners know that by about one percentage point over the last few years Charlestful City's population has been declining the city's population has been declining almore County is eroding the city's economic vitality and almore County is cannibalizing the cities i have to choose my words what's the word I'm looking for here. I'm not sure. The men and women that drive bodies. Not all bodies. I'll try a different way. Al Morrow County is eroding the city's economic vitality. In Al Morrow County is cannibalizing the city's quality human capital. Quality, human capital. Quality, human capital. Okay. A 1% decline in city population.

population has been consistent of late for the city. That is a lot of people. Comments in the feed, I'll relay them live on air. I'd like to highlight John Blair. In addition to the consultants report about 501 Cherry Avenue, I think you have to look at the Reed's closure as another cause for concern. It's been almost a year and a half since Reed's closed on Preston Avenue. If the demand for a small grocery store was there, don't you think you'd see a new small market open in that location? Reed's location was much more walkable for hundreds, if not thousands of people, when compared to the Cherry Avenue site. In the last week, the last one week period of time, Judah, in the last one week period of time, we've gotten a consultant's report about Cherry Avenue being a non-starter for a

grocery store, while Piedmont Housing Alliance has gotten approval from council to buy. the site from wooded properties. And the last week of time, we found out from Mike Pruitt that Almore's Board of Supervisors and its county executive had no idea that Charlottesville City was purchasing 2,000 holiday drive for a homeless shelter, despite it being on the city and county line. And then the last week of time, we found out that 2000 holiday drive is such a boondoggle that it's going to be 24 to 36 months of opening before it opens. In fact, we knew that a while ago, I broke that news.

but what's fresh news is is city hall is going to ask the county for potentially up to $10 million for that project. And it's gone from 215 beds to 80 beds. Yeah. And in the meantime, they can't even use the lawn.

That's what baffles me. Like, why not open up the lawn to all the people on the Rovanna Trail? Unbelievable. 115. Next headline. This is for I Love Seville Insiders. $8 a month gets you content that's going to be 35 to 45 pieces of fresh content per 30-day period.

We're going to publish four today. Three have already been published. There's going to be four pieces today. A global media publication has now ranked Charlottesville the number three luxury housing market in the United States. America. I'm going to give you a tease for this. I'm going to tease this for you because I want you to subscribe. We Work Hard for You. The show is absolutely free. It's thanks to partners like Stanley Martin Holmes. Stanley Martin Holmes, did you know, has built 600 homes in the last 24 months in central Virginia? Stanley Martin Holmes is dedicated to building homes that cater to each person's

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I'll give you a tease of what's behind that paywall. There's a global media publication of the most significant credibility. Would you not say the most significant credibility this publication? Sure. That has ranked Charlestville the number three luxury housing market in the country. This really stood out to me. to a buyer from San Jose, California, which is ranked number five on the list, or San Diego, which is number seven on this list,

where entry-level luxury often starts well above $3 million. Entry level, a $1.5 million luxury home in Almaro County feels like an incredible steel. This is relatively affordable for folks in New York, Manhattan, Connecticut, Northern Virginia, California, or other wealthy enclaves in our country. The areas being targeted are obvious. They're not even really in the city, frankly. They are Farmington, Ivy, Edom, Endham Forest, Keswick, Free Union, Garth Road, parts of Glenmore.

on the bottom of that story, you have Farmington twice. If you can update that. In fact, there's Farmington twice in both locations. That was my fault. That's not your part. So under number two in that story, under the number two section, the second Farmington mention needs to be edited to Glenmore. And under number five in that section,

the second Farmington mention needs to be Glenmore. That's my fault, not your fault. I made that mistake. My mistake. Which story is that? The story we're talking about Judah. The global media publication ranked Charlestville number three. There's two references, two spots where Farmington's mentioned twice.

My mistake, I apologize. I'm going to conclude this by encouraging you to subscribe to our substack. I'm going to also conclude this by saying, please don't put Charlestville area on any more lists. Please don't. on any more list. One of the most significant media publications in the entire world is drawing attention to Charlottesville and Almor County as affordable luxury.

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Estes IGA served the community as a grocer for decades. One would think that this same design principle would have been employed here as the hue and cry of food desert was the animating force behind this from the start. That is one question I do ask here, is if it worked for an Estes IGA and it worked for Kim's market, why could it not work now? Maybe that's a question for you, Deep Throat right there, or John Blair? I mean, is that not the issue around a lot of things? around affordability today

that things are just different. I mean, we've... That's what we're just going to chalk it up to? I mean, part of it probably is the fact that inflation has been going nonstop. Well, if it was

a Kins market in an IGA, why can't you... It'd be the same now? There were different times. Things were more affordable back then. I mean, think about, we've talked about the fact that you could

you could have had a one income household with a stay-at-home mom and still afford, you know, two cars in the garage, a mortgage for a house, and it's just

things are not the same as they were back then. The affordability is no longer there. I mean, you yourself say that this is a 60-hour work week town. And that number's going up. And now you're saying it's even worse. I don't think it's a 60 hour a week town anymore.

So, I mean... I think the average household in the Charleston metro area, if that average household is not clocking 80 to 90 hours a week, the household

on average, it's going to fall behind. So take that and expand it. I mean, you're saying yourself that it's just not affordable anymore. Charlottesville is not affordable. Why would you expect a, why would you expect? Ah, deep throat's got great intel.

Well, guys, IGA and Kim's market both closed. So there's that. And there's also the Instacard and other services like DoorDash that have gutted the pay extra for smaller, quicker, closer bodega model. bodegas in New York City are getting crushed. 30 years ago, they were vibrant. Yeah. Grocer store right next to us,

the Market Street market is hanging on. Like clinging. Clinging. That's a shame. For survival. Like clinging for survival. Clinging. Grocer store on the 4th and Market Street

clinging for survival. Philip Dow. I see the city of Charlottesville ending up like New York. The city doesn't have the money or competent people to manage the city. This is a sign that socialism does not work. Conan Owen doesn't like the carpet bagger comments.

Stop the carpet bagger comments. Who do you think is driving the growth in the area? The Roebuck Founders aren't from here. Neither is the guy developing the artful lodge or brown space. Coco's isn't being built by the orange pants crowd. We went from welcoming refugees and immigrants

to churning away people of means, brilliant. The Robat founders are UVA grad students, UVA grad students, the COCO's founder, we broke the news about COCOs on the I Love Seville Network. Dr. Daniel Halpert, we text often. He lives in Culpeper County.

Culpeper County. And the individual that's developing the Artful Lodgeer Brown's space into a hotel is Jeff Levine. New York. A Manhattanite, who has an estate in North Garden and also developed the apartment complex

next to University Tire on West Main Street, the new home to Blue Moon Diner that is now what, Maggie's on Maine? I think so. I know all the players quite well, kind of. Hence why folks should be subscribing to what we're doing, because we're literally

talking about it for I Love Seville Insiders. All right. The next topic I want to cover on the program is the Belmont Market. We broke the news for you a couple of weeks ago of what is planned for the Belmont Market location. We highlighted last week the Belmont Market was about to sell. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Belmont Market has now traded hands in a seven-figure deal. That stories you can find on for I Love Seville Insiders, 834 Monicello Road, the iconic red brick building, once home to the beloved Belmont Market, the location where I used to trot to purchase my 12 packs of natural light, has now been purchased by Super DL LLC, and the Super DL. LLC, which purchased Belmont market for $1.2 million on April 29th is looking to develop it. This matters because it's yet another indication of the Belmont boom. This matters because it's yet another indication that working class Belmont is not wanted or invited in Belmont anymore. It is now bougie white collar Belmont.

when parcels that are zoned CX3 that are just 0.152 acres, a post stamp, trade for seven figures to be gutted and renovated, it's a sure sign that tax assessments all around this location are going to uptick significantly pinching, pricing, and gentrifying folks into tax brackets they never thought a blue-collar neighborhood would ever see. A seven-figure deal for a 3,000 square foot bodega. The theme of today's show is closed bodegas. You know, if they had taken Kim's Market from 501 Cherry Avenue from day one

and legitimately said, you know what, we are the developers of this, we are the owners of this, we're going to bring to market what we think is the best idea. that would have been way better for the city than what they've done now. Because if they had brought luxury apartments or luxury for sale townhomes at 501 Cherry Avenue, that would have at the very least been additional housing stock into the ecosystem. And that additional supply would have alleviated price point, stabilized price point at some level. What they did instead was form this unholy alliance.

Unholy Alliance, this crazy cornucopia of too many chefs in a kitchen, and all it's done is created development purgatory that's cost the city money, the developer money, the nonprofit money, and has created this pipe dream for the neighborhood that thinks that still has a chance at a grocery store. They don't realize that the pipe dream is about to be a Freddie Kruger nightmare. The Monday edition of the I Love Seville Show, Judah Woodcower and Jerry Miller.