The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Old Ivy Bridge Reopens, CVille Traffic Back To Normal; AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly & Biotech

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. Thank you for joining us on a Monday afternoon. It's great to be with you. The I Love Seville Show, the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesville, Outmoral County, and Central Virginia. A lot to cover on the show. Old Ivy Bridge now reopen. Hallelujah.
Starting point is 00:00:28 Can I get an amen, Judah Wickhauer? Amen. A man with passion and charisma, Judah Wickhauer. It reopens in traffic immediately today, flowing much more smoothly and efficiently. I'll tell you, if you have some terrible intentions and you want to impact Charlottesville, Admiral County, and this region, you now know that Old Ivy Bridge is a vulnerable point for this entire community. Because I'll tell you what, for the last week in change, traffic and quality of life have been snarled. But now VDOT has confirmed the bridge is now up and running, and things are now running as they once did prior to a hit and run with a semi-truck on the old Ivy Bridge that left a key piece of infrastructure, a key traffic corridor in peril.
Starting point is 00:01:24 It got me and my wife thinking, my wife and I thinking about how you improve that intersection and put your hand in the air and wave it around like you just don't care. If you think St. Anne's Belfield Academy at this point needs to have its own entrance and exit, a dedicated entrance and exit into that beautiful, gorgeous, massive campus right off the bypass. Why is there not a dedicated entrance and exit to St. Anne's Belfield Academy right off the bypass where those athletic playing fields are located? If you are anywhere near the bypass in the 7 a.m. hour or near the bypass in the 3 o'clock hour, the parent traffic for school drop off and school pickup at St. Ann's Belfield Academy is so snarled. it is almost dangerous. The parents dropping off and picking up at St. Anne's
Starting point is 00:02:26 Bellfield, for example, in the 3 o'clock hour on the bypass, are parked by the many dozens, on some occasions, flirting with 100 vehicles on the shoulder of the bypass, with cars whizzing by them at 50, 60, nearly 70 miles an hour. This is a traffic disaster waiting to happen, ladies and gentlemen. You want to make this community better. There's so many ways to do it.
Starting point is 00:02:56 So many ways to do it. Find incremental sources of tax revenue. AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, we'll talk about those. I'm going to ask you, the viewer, and listener, will biotechnology eventually surpass the weddings and the breweries and the vineyards in this community? Tourism as an economic driver for Charlottesville, Alamo, and Central Virginia.
Starting point is 00:03:17 I think that very well could happen, and it may happen sooner than later. Economic development's a way to make this community better. We talk housing affordability. That's a way to make this community better. We talk about finding jobs and science, technology, engineering, math, artificial intelligence for the folks that live in this community so outsiders don't move to this community and take this job scene that is booming right before our eyes.
Starting point is 00:03:42 That's another way to make this community better. Elect officials of diverse political thought. for so long this community has had a strength been strangle held i mean literally been choked around the neck by one political party and one political party has positioned a community like charlesville for example in a in a financial situation that is one of challenge and difficulty we've covered that so much on this program but an extremely obvious way to me of making this community better ladies and gentleman, is to have a dedicated entrance and exit, a dedicated path strictly for Sains off the bypass, maybe around the playing fields that would just keep traffic from fuddling
Starting point is 00:04:30 into that old ivy, that old Garth Road, that little corridor next, was it, Falconer Drive, Faulkner Drive, where Belair, the Delhi, the gas station is located. Do that, and the community and quality of life in this community improves significantly. So much we're going to cover on the program. We'll open up the conversation to your thoughts, your comments, your discussion on the Monday edition of the I Love Seville Show. Huge week for ACC football. You've got multiple undefeated teams playing, ladies and gentlemen, on Saturday. You got Miami and Louisville playing on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:05:11 You got the University of Virginia having homecoming. They moved up the rankings. The University of Virginia moved up a spot. That win against Florida states lost a little bit of its luster after the Seminoles have fallen, just lost to the Pitt Panthers. But it's a huge week for Virginia. It's a huge week for the ACC.
Starting point is 00:05:30 We'll break it down today on the program. I would love to give some props to Conan Owen and Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. He's a Darden graduate Conan Owen. Sir Speedy of Central Virginia is locally owned and operated. They take care of our signage needs for our building, the Macklin building, which we own a large chunk of on Market Street. 24 tenants in this building. They take care of our signage.
Starting point is 00:05:54 They did improve the window and the signage, the storefront of our studio. We're pursuing a position, another position in the downtown mall where they've helped already with signage over there. Working with a lot of our clients, Conan Owen, the guy understands what it takes to help businesses gain market share. Darden Graduate, Conan Owen, and locally owned and operated Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. Judah Wickhauer, can we go to the studio camera? And then once we go to the studio camera, can we welcome a trusted voice, a counted voice, a counted upon voice in this community. Judah B. Wickhauer, the jack of all trades, the jack of all wits, nearly 16 years here at the Miller organization, Judah Wickhauer. So many headlines we're going to cover on today's program.
Starting point is 00:06:39 I ask you this question, so it should be no support. to start every show. Which headline today most intrigues you and why, Judah Wickhauer? You know, with all this development going on, it's, I think, surprising that we're still having issues with places like Ivy Road, and I'd like to see, I'd like to see us start, I don't know, planning for the future that we're heading towards with, you know, with major influxes of not just money, but potentially jobs from AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly, we're definitely going to need some of these single lane roads expanded. And I think I don't really see a lot of
Starting point is 00:07:32 foresight into what the city is going to be like in the surrounding area once we get some of this some of this new business i i respectfully push back on some of your commentary there the development for gray star the massive project along the bypass an international real estate developer that's going to create housing for thousands of people right next to the bypass yeah multiple individuals considerable amount of stakeholders including yours truly on this talk show highlighted that the virginia Department of Transportation, VDOT, would not be done with construction on the bridge of the bypass that Grey Star needed to utilize to access their project. John Blair talked about this. He's highlighted on the show in the past. That bridge, a key entry and a key exit for the
Starting point is 00:08:27 Gray Star project right off the bypass. That's where you see all that red clay going on, housing for thousands, and I'll give you those specs in a matter of moments. Five hundred and twenty-five units, Grey Star is building off the bypass. They're building a small city. Ladies and gentlemen, we knew that VTOT was not going to be done with that bridge. Enhancement, construction, improvement, fixing wise. Yet the supervisors approved and allow Gray Star to make this project materialized and happen before the bridge was finished. We are what, we are in this bed, because the supervisors have made it this way. Now, I will highly, like this, and Deep Throat has made
Starting point is 00:09:10 this comment to start the program, his photo to start the show. He says, on the old Ivy Bridge, kudos to VDOT for getting it sorted quickly. And then he says, can you imagine if it had been the city of Charlottesville that was responsible for fixing that bridge?
Starting point is 00:09:28 City Hall engineer Brennan Duncan would still be sucking his thumb while we all stew in traffic. And two, Deep Throat says, did they ever figure out who hit the bridge? Is anyone going after the company for damages? They have footage deep throat of who hit the bridge. We have not had an update, however, if any kind of arrest or criminal charges
Starting point is 00:09:55 have been filed. This was a hit and run of significant proportions, a semi-truck, a tractor trailer hitting the bottom of the bridge. I would love some clarity. Is that the state police? Is that the Almore County police? Who does that investigation? State police? Almore County Police? Is that VDOT? I would like some clarity on what they're doing
Starting point is 00:10:18 charges pressing, from a pressing charges standpoint. To his credit, to his point, I should say, to his point, if this scenario had had happened in the city of Charlottesville, or Charlottesville is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of its own roads.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Albemarle County, it's VDOT that does it. If this had happened in Charlottesville, we would still be in a, what? One of those Houdini vests where you're zipped in and you're dropped in a cage of water to try to wiggle your way out of that Houdini vest that you're tied and zipped into, we would be drowning. It's a street jacket. We'd be drowning because we couldn't get out of the straight jacket. because the city wouldn't know what to do with it. In this case, props to VDOT for figuring it out. Kevin Yancey watching the program, his photo on screen. Get the traffic
Starting point is 00:11:11 off the bypass, he says. The neighborhood on Garth Road backs up to St. Ants. Put an entrance at the rear of that subdivision. Unless they widen the entrance ramp, it will be a choke point worse than the railroad bridge at Bel Air. 100%, Kevin Ansey.
Starting point is 00:11:27 100%. St. Ann's Bellfield. one of the most prestigious and prominent private schools and the Commonwealth. Tremendously respect Stab. If Stab wants to do a capital improvement project, a fundraiser, to better its campus, first priority shouldn't be football fields, lacrosse fields, brick buildings and classrooms, technology, and innovation. It should be working in conjunction with VDOT and Almorel County to prioritize a better entry and exit, jumping on point and jumping off point to that campus off of Old Garth Road.
Starting point is 00:12:17 I drive by, you've seen it recently, in the 3 o'clock hour on the bypass, there are nearly 100 cars waiting in line parked on the shoulder of the bypass as cars. Cars are going 60 miles an hour past a straight line of luxury automobiles. It takes one car going 60 to 70 miles an hour to take their eyes off the road, look at their phone, and rear end that straight line of luxury automobiles as they're waiting to pick up their kids at drop off or at pickup or to drop off their kids in the morning. It takes one person to hit that line at 70 miles an hour. and you have a major you-know-what show on your hands.
Starting point is 00:13:04 That strikes me as the most obvious way for St. Anne's to improve quality of life for parents, for student body, for anyone going in and off that campus. Kevin Ansi says they're backed up on Ivy Road as well. I see it firsthand. We live on Ivy. We are navigating this every morning and every afternoon. As are thousands of people. It seems to me a basic fundraiser idea.
Starting point is 00:13:30 so much to cover on the show the good news is old ivy bridge is now back open and props to vdot they figure this out pretty quickly oh yeah I've heard some people suggest that the driver that hit the hit the bridge get commendation for getting them moved faster
Starting point is 00:13:49 whoever hit the bridge his insurance provider VDOT Almore County whoever should go after his insurance provider, the most aggressive force possible. Conan Owen watching the program. St. Anne's Belfield has plenty of land,
Starting point is 00:14:08 Conan Owen says. Have them make a satellite lot for all the cars to pull into and get them off of the public roadway. They could set up a coffee cart selling lattes and fancy waters and yoga mats and make a fortune from Conan Owen.
Starting point is 00:14:25 Something's got to be done. I'm genuinely surprised. I am generally surprised. prize that dozens if not a hundred or more cars are allowed to wait in a straight line on the shoulder of a road where people are traveling a posted speed limit of 55 miles an hour going much faster than that close to 70 how is that not a friction point for the virginia department of transportation or almore county or the ACPD the ACPD has one or two police officers at that Faulkner Drive, old Ivey Bridge exit, trying to navigate and direct traffic.
Starting point is 00:15:08 And there's only so much those guys can do. And this entire situation for the viewers and listeners that are watching the program is going to tremendously worsen when Grey Star, the International Real Estate Development, developer finishes the old ivy residences a build for rent community on 35 acres on the bypass that will feature 525 total units two clubhouses two swimming pools two fitness centers playgrounds sports courts dog parks a walking trail a putting green a co-working space a library a golf simulator and food and sundrys markets the first units are slated to deliver in Q2, 2026. If you want to learn more about this gray star project, I Loveceville.com forward
Starting point is 00:15:55 slash gray star, G-R-E-Y-S-T-A-R-E-E-Val.com forward slash gray star. I'm going to take this link and put it in the comment section of my personal Facebook page. Just search me on Facebook. Jerry Miller now. We have nearly 10,000 followers. I'm going to put it in the comment section of the I I love Seville Facebook page where there's 7,300 followers. I'll put it in the group. Kevin Yancey adds, Jerry, why do you think Farmington put a sticker gate on the backside of their subdivision to stop them from cutting through Farmington? He's 100% right.
Starting point is 00:16:34 And I've cut through Farmington so many times when that gate is surprisingly left open throughout the day. How you cut through Farmington is from Old Garth Road through Farmington getting you on Ivy road across from the Borset. But that gate, that mechanical armed gate, you need to fob, whatever the word is, scan, fob your way in for that
Starting point is 00:16:55 gate to open for you. Sometimes it's left open. Throughout the day, I would imagine it's for the construction work that's being done in the neighborhood. And those construction workers don't have fobs to get in and out, so they just leave it open during business hours. There's something
Starting point is 00:17:12 from a planning standpoint. We have planning commissioners watching this program. From a planning standpoint, a traffic standpoint, an engineering standpoint, whatever the fancy words are, I'm just a guy with a microphone that needs to be fixed before Grey Star brings 525 units
Starting point is 00:17:28 in eight months, nine months to the bypass. 525 units. Let's just use two, let's use there's 336, one, two and three bedroom apartments, 189, three-bedroom detached homes and townhomes. So of those 525, deep-throat is a good number,
Starting point is 00:17:53 2.5 times 525. Is that fair? Deep Throat, 525 times 2.5. Is that fair? You know this better than I do. 525 times 2.5 people. Across from St. Ann's Bellfield, there's going to be more than 1,300 people living there in the second quarter, starting in the second quarter of next year. Now it's a phased-out development. It's not all going to happen at one time, but the first units come to market Q2, 2026. Eventually, there's going to be more than 1,300 people if I'm allowed to use 2.5 people times 525 units. That is going to be an absolute, you know what show right there. Lots of cover on the show. If we want to be a world-class city, and that's the tagline of Charlottesville, world-class city, we need to have world-class innovation, world-class roads,
Starting point is 00:18:41 world-class infrastructure, world-class policing, world-class policy. I think Kachis is bringing world-class policing. I think world-class innovation is on the cusp. This AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly, economic development storyline, is as significant as any storyline that Almore County has seen from an econ-dev standpoint as one of the top wedding destinations in the United States, as being a hub for government contracting. I mean, it literally, this is crazy for me to say.
Starting point is 00:19:15 This biotechnology storyline is like the third cousin, from an economic development standpoint, the third cousin of the founding of the University of Virginia, from an econ dev standpoint. We're going to talk about that on today's show. Viewers and listeners, put your thoughts in the feed. I will relay them live on air. He says, deep throat,
Starting point is 00:19:39 or staff could try to help create bus service. When we lived in Houston, there were all sorts of private, unaffiliated with any particular school of mini bus services that connected kids to school. I got someone from St. Anne's calling me literally right now. There are enough wealthy staff parents willing to pay $100 a week for this service.
Starting point is 00:19:58 And he says, forget about people. Let's talk about car trips per apartment unit. That Grey Star project, the standard assumption is seven car trips per day per unit. Yeah, that's why I see it. why he's number one in the family. He's saying, forget the people.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Talk about car trips. The Grey Star Project per apartment unit, the standard assumption is seven car trips per day per unit. So 3,500 trips, K-factor of 10%. So on your peak hours, probably 350 car trips, that's pretty close to Stab's peak traffic. And it's happening across the street from Stab. When parents are waiting by the near 100, if not more,
Starting point is 00:20:37 on a gravel shoulder next to a road where people are hauling ass to the tune of 60 or 70 miles an hour. It takes one distracted driver to clip that line of Stabonian parents on the shoulder
Starting point is 00:20:56 and you have an accordion of collision. Yeah, no doubt. I'll say that again to the fundraising department at Stath. It's going to take one distracted driver cell phone, changing the radio, kid in the backseat to calls in an accordion of collision of Stabonian parents
Starting point is 00:21:18 and luxury automobiles on the bypass. Comments coming in faster than I can keep up, literally getting phone calls from the school on the show right now. John Blair's comment. Jerry, we've kind of looked at, long-term trends for a while, but today's show really does provide us with this reality. The area, the areas at a true decision point. What do I mean? We've been watching private schools rise in the area for years, St. Anne's, for example. We've been watching the biotech sector
Starting point is 00:21:52 gear up for years, AstraZeneca. And if we've been watching UVA's revenue sports get their sea legs in the NIL area, UVA football and basketball appear to be top 25 teams this year, he says. John Blair adds, it's all coming together. The question is whether the infrastructure housing situations are immediately addressed or not. If not, you can expect more turbocharge gentrification. I hate to say it, but it's just the truth. You can't have all these trends finally come to fruition at the same time and not expect massive gentrification if there isn't immediate attention to housing
Starting point is 00:22:26 and infrastructure. Amen, brother. Props to John Blair. Amen, brother. He's 100% right. And I'm going to tell you right now, the next community that's going to be gentrification, massively is Green County. Stanley Martin Holmes,
Starting point is 00:22:42 which is owned by a Japanese conglomerate, owned by a Japanese conglomerate now, Stanley Martin. They are building or leading the charge. They are leading their charge. There's a couple of other players involved in this as well. But they are leading
Starting point is 00:22:59 the charge of thousands of incremental housing units in Green County. And these people are extremely smart. They know that Al Morrow County invested millions of dollars into Rivana Station, north of town. Let me see if I can find the Almore County press release. Rivana Station and Rivana Futures. Millions of dollars was invested north of town. They know that Al Morrow County's dirt is so expensive.
Starting point is 00:23:34 It's prohibitive for development. they know that Al Morrow County's political appetite for more development is also red tape for new construction, friction for new construction. So these developers, especially developers that are capitalized like Stanley Martin, developers that are capitalized like Ryan Holmes, they are targeting jurisdictions that are adjacent to popular areas. Al Morrow County, there's no political appetite to build more in Almore County. okay and the dirt's so effing expensive that the new construction is at an absolute standstill okay look at the data it's there so they're targeting green county because it's adjacent to almore county they're targeting green county because they know that rivana futures at ribana station the county's invested tens of millions of dollars of its own money into purchasing land to try to keep the defense sector in almoreal county yeah okay they now know astrozenica is going to invest how many billion four point five billion to build two facilities in Rivana Station, Rivana Future, north of town. This $4.5 billion, these two facilities that are going to be in Almore County that
Starting point is 00:24:42 publicly traded AstraZeneca's building, are going to be its two largest facilities in the entire world. It's going to be the home of 600 incremental new jobs, 600 new jobs. Jobs most likely that will be filled from people outside the area. Stanley Martin's no dummy. They're like, let's build in the area right next to where Rivana, future and Rivenna stations are. Let's build in the area right next to where Almaral County has dumped tens of millions of dollars to purchase nondescript afterthought dirt from the Wendell Wood
Starting point is 00:25:16 estate. Let's build in the area right next to where Albaral County is trying to funnel its government contractors here that have a $1.3 billion economic impact on the area, Chamber of Commerce study. Green County, I said this on Friday, on real talk with Keith Smith at 10.15 a.m. Green County, once known for Shifflets and Morris's and Haney's, is about to turn into the Crozet, we know today. At one time, Sleepy Green County was known for Bacon Halla and, and and the Dean family and the Morris family and two Fs and two T's and two T's and one E at the end and no E at the end and one T. Shiflets everywhere. Well, get ready, Green County.
Starting point is 00:26:13 You're on the cusp of turning into what Croze is today. And you think Croze is tough when traffic gets snarled on either 64 or Ivy Road? Wait till you see what happens when Route 29 gets snarled and that's the only entry and exit corridor for Green County. At least Crozay's got two. At least Crozze's got two. Wild times we're living in right now. And you know what?
Starting point is 00:26:38 It's wild times from a glasses half full standpoint for me. Not completely full, but half full. Because it's a good problem to have. And the good problem that we have is at least we have economic development. The alternative is, southwestern Virginia before the casino started coming at least
Starting point is 00:27:02 we have development and if you want to rotate lower thirds on screen and we talk some of this impact like do we start having the conversation at Vivachi I saw Ginny Who at Vivachi and Ginny Who's
Starting point is 00:27:18 husband at Vivachi on Saturday. My wife and I and our two boys went into Vivachi in like 536 o'clock hour We've got a pizza over there. If you haven't had the pizza at Vivachi, you're missing some of the best pizza in town. My wife and I had a couple beers. Our boys had a pepperoni pizza.
Starting point is 00:27:34 The bread was fantastic. We had the popcorn. We sat in the bar area. I walked into Vivachi and you, 10 or 12 people there. Ginny Who and her husband were there. Saw Keith Clark over there. Saw a fellow entrepreneur that I have a lot of respect for. Jason, Halloran.
Starting point is 00:27:54 He and his wife were there. Developers were there, bankers were there, attorneys were there. You had blue-collar folks, white-collar folks, university professors, CDL drive, CDLs, all mingling and mixing over something wet and some good food. I mean, the Charlottesville version of Cheers is the Vavachi Bar. give me a version of cheers in Charlottesville that's not Vavachi. What would you say? Cheers, yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:28:36 Vavachi bar on the ivy side. Maybe if you want to go western, the western of Almaro County, you might say far downers. Maybe you go far downers. Pro Renata's starting to grab that stake. Eastern side of Almaro County, what do you probably go on, Lazy Parrot? Lazy Parrot on the eastern side is its version of Cheers. The northern side of Almaro County, what is it, Timberwood? Probably Timberwood Grill.
Starting point is 00:29:02 The southern side of Almore County, what's the southern side of Cheers? Is it the Tap House of Timberwood? I don't know that area as well. You tempt people as soon as I went in there. But this conversation was had. When do we start having this conversation, viewers and listeners? that AstraZeneca, is AstraZeneca 4.5 billion, Judah? Something like that.
Starting point is 00:29:24 And Eli Lilly is, what, 5 billion Judah? Yeah. When do we have the conversation that the Paul Manning Biotechnology Institute that is funded in large chunk and change by billionaire Paul Manning gave about $100 to $125 million to get the party starting? Then once the party gets started
Starting point is 00:29:45 at the Paul Manning Biotech Institute on Fontaine Avenue, set to open in 2029. Paul Manning Biotech Institute, their first hire is a senior executive vice president from Astrozenica. He comes over as the new face of the biotech Institute at UVA. Next thing we know, the news leaks that Astrosenica is building a facility in the area, and that Eli Lilly are building a facility in the area. Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca combined are building a facility in the area,
Starting point is 00:30:12 facilities in the area, to the tune of $10 billion in aggregate. just those two publicly traded companies, $10 billion in aggregate. Paul Manning, Biotech Institute, when it's all said and done, what's that half a billion dollars in development costs, if not more? I'm very curious what the soft and hard cost
Starting point is 00:30:28 are for the Biotech Institute, Paul Manning. So you got $4.5 billion for AstraZeneca, 600 jobs, $5 billion for Eli Lilly, $650 jobs. Paul Manning, Biotech Institute, half a billion, conservative. That number's probably light, 500. you're now over $10 billion combined collective aggregate just from those three.
Starting point is 00:30:49 I straight up was told, ladies and gentlemen, before COVID, before this check was struck, that when this check is struck, you're going to see a population uptick of 6 to 8,000 people to the area. 6 to 8,000 people. I think that number is now light. We know it's 650 at Eli Lilly, 600 at AstraZeneca. Paul Manning's going to be, what, another 600 in change? And that doesn't even include the ecosystems that sprout out
Starting point is 00:31:17 around these three anchors. When do we have this conversation at Cheers of Charlottesville Vavachi, at Cheers of Charlottesville Lazy Parrot, at Cheers of Charlottesil, Timberwood, north of town? When do we have the conversation that biotechnology in Charlottesville is going to be an economic development driver
Starting point is 00:31:34 that surpasses tourism? That is on the same plane as government contracting, which we know. a few years ago was $1.3 billion thanks to a study commissioned by the Chamber of Commerce and financed by Almore
Starting point is 00:31:51 County in the city of Charlottesville, with Weldon Cooper, you know, assisting with it. When do we have this conversation, ladies and gentlemen? You ready for this? This biotechnology, this birth of biotechnology, is akin to when
Starting point is 00:32:09 Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia were birthed here. Now, you might say that's hyperbole in a stretch. What are you talking about, Jared? I'm not, that's not hyperbolic. That is not hyperbolic, ladies and gentlemen. When do we start making the legitimate argument that the drivers, the top drivers of the Central Virginia economy are UVA 1,
Starting point is 00:32:34 biotechnology 2, government contracting 3, tourism 4, and then what? real estate five? And who knows what Jaffrey's going to do with data science and this data science school? Yeah. Dude, he's got the Midas Touch. Friend of the program, I hope he hears this.
Starting point is 00:32:53 Team listens to the show. I hope they hear this. Dude's got the mightest touch. Data science is going to be world-class. I don't even know what the impact of data science is going to be positively to this area. It's going to be monumental and significant. That's the conversation we were having at Cheers on Saturday
Starting point is 00:33:10 over some popcorn. some IPAs and some pizza, that the biotechnology sector is going to be akin to government contracting from an econ dev standpoint and start knocking on the door at the University of Virginia. Thoughts and comments, viewers and listeners, put them in the feed. I'll relay them live on air. Your thoughts due to Wickhauer. Yeah, it's like I was saying, we need to prepare for all of that. It's not going to be a small thing coming to our area. and if, you know, someone knocking a bridge puts this much strain on the already strained Ivy Corridor,
Starting point is 00:33:49 it's not just Ivy that we need to start thinking about. James Watson watching the program, his photo on screen. He says, seems like the biotech pharmaceutical corporations defense and the two counties should be purchasing roadway land and finding a solution for the upcoming roadway gridlock on that corridor. That's really the only main issue I see, but a pretty significant one. He's 100% right, hugely significant one. Yeah. Because I need viewers and listeners to hear this.
Starting point is 00:34:23 The folks that are going to work for AstraZeneca, when these two facilities are online and 29, the two largest AstroZeneca facilities in the world, they are not going to live in Green County. These, and I'm no shade on Green County, but these biotechnology scientists or technologists, whatever the phrase is, are going to be so deep pocketed in compensation that they are going to be commuting, ladies and gentlemen, from ivy pockets of Western Amarro or pockets of the city of Charlottesville. They're not going to be living in Green or Barbersville. They're not going to be living in Forest Lakes. Holly Mead.
Starting point is 00:35:06 Georgia Gilmer, her photo on screen. Interesting tidbit. St. Ann's Bellfield's Lower School is landlocked by property owned by UVA and the late McLean's. Wonder what UVA plans to do with that property? It's a great question, Georgia Gilmer. James Watson, they're probably going to have to buy land that already has businesses on it along 29. Literally tear down those and create roadways. That's extremely expensive.
Starting point is 00:35:30 100% right from James Watson. James Watson's all over it. All over it. I mean, but they have a track record of doing that. The Foods of All Nations Shopping Center, is that Ivy Square? UVA owns that. If anyone thinks that Ivy Square Shopping Center
Starting point is 00:35:53 and the long run is going to be what we see today and not completely torn down and knocked down, you're not reading the tea leaves correctly. Do you guys remember the key leaves correctly? Cavalier Inn. I remember my dad went to UVA. My brother went to UVA. I went to UVA. We grew up, we grew up in Williamsburg. We moved from Naples, Florida, grew up in Williamsburg. We grew up going to football games and walking the grounds of Thomas Jefferson's University because my dad loved coming here like all alumni do. We always stayed at the Cavalier Inn, Caddy Corridor from the UVA
Starting point is 00:36:28 tennis courts. The Cavalier Inn was a phenomenal hotel. Phenomenal, middle, upper class, middle tier, three-star hotel. The thing that made the Cavalier in the best was its proximity
Starting point is 00:36:47 to walk to everywhere. You stayed at the hotel and you could park your car and didn't have to worry about moving it for two or three days, and you could walk everywhere. Corner, Scott Stadium, John Paul Jones, the law in the room everywhere they tore it down completely tore it down yeah and reimagine the entire intersection because the most valuable aspect of the cavalier in was not the hotel was the dirt
Starting point is 00:37:18 and the fact that it was a gateway in an entrance quarter to the university of virginia i have said that the lawn 2.0, the academic village 2.0, it's going to be that Ivy Corridor that connects the Borshead to the Data Science School into where the Cavalier Inn once stood. You clearly see the University of Virginia pushing its way that way. That's why it made such a big deal about that apartment complex that's being developed next to Mo's. UVA, Allison Rauscher, its architect, they literally were going before city council meetings
Starting point is 00:38:03 and saying we shouldn't build a 10-story apartment building next to Mo's. Why did they say that? Because UVA wants that entire quarter to be the Academic Village 2.0. wants it to be housing for second years and four second years to live on grounds now. If that's the Academic Village 2.0, the next quarter for expansion for UVA is probably connecting North Fork
Starting point is 00:38:34 to grounds. Do you have the photo from UVA today that you can put on screen? No. You didn't download that? Not yet. Are you able to get that in routine time? If not, we can save it for tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:38:46 Yeah, I can try it. to get it. But not on the Mac. Don't do it on the Mac because that impacts the show. We'll just save it for tomorrow. No big deal. Save it for tomorrow. There's a photo on UVA today. The headline is UVA poised to benefit from AstraZeneca's new Almorel manufacturing site. And they have a rendering. And this rendering on this story, it's the hero pick on this story, literally shows what looks like to be a version of the academic village. This looks like a version of Thomas Jefferson's university, but it's at UVA's North Fork Research
Starting point is 00:39:23 Park in northern Alabama County. We'll see if we can put that on screen tomorrow. Vanessa Parkhill, her photo on screen, then Judah, you offer your thoughts. Vanessa Parkhill says North Point may offer a good option for housing to AstraZeneca affiliates, possibly, but is North Point going to be at capacity by the time they come online in 2029? Just spitballing with you here. Randy O'Neill, which statewide candidates from the Democratic Party are sharing these positive economic developments? I don't really see any of the candidates doing it. I see Glenn Yonkin trying to tout the economic development
Starting point is 00:40:13 with FaceTime and ribbon cutting. I mean, Glenn Yonkin's been spending a lot of time in Amarro County. He knows he's got about three and a half months left. Not even three and a half months left. He's got about three months left. So he needs to press as much flesh as possible and get as much positive attention on his personal brand as possible
Starting point is 00:40:32 and hope that carries over to a potential presidential push if he wants to go that route. Or at the very least, help him cleanse or bathe. the damage done to his personal brand over the last 18 months and boy oh boy has a lot of damage been done that's all he's doing deep throat says to your point about that shoulder I now take kids extra early so I don't have to sit there
Starting point is 00:41:01 scares the bejebus out of me yeah how is it completely how is it legal that nearly 100 cars can be parked in the gravel on not really even a shoulder next to a road called a bypass where cars are going 70 miles an hour by it.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Yeah, I mean, that's a freeway. That's a freeway. What these people are doing is akin to parking on the interstate and being at a standstill stop. Yeah. Right? At a curve.
Starting point is 00:41:37 At a blind curve. With no traffic light and just a policeman standing in a yellow vest, trying to direct traffic. Explain to me how this is allowed. If this was a public school, it would never have materialized this way. Never would have materialized this way.
Starting point is 00:42:03 118 marker. Ginny Who, hey, nice to see you and your husband. She says Vivacchi is the only one left with Lord Hardwick's and Sloan's now. closed. She says the cheers of Charlottesville. I say lazy parrots, so on the eastern side of town, it's got the cheers of Charlottesville.
Starting point is 00:42:22 You cringe when I say that? I don't know. I haven't really been to that one. Obviously, we used to go to the all indoor version. Lazy parrot 1.0 where you could smoke inside. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:39 So, I don't know. But that, I guess, I guess there was a bit of a bit of a cheers vibe to that place. So maybe it transferred to the new spot. Who knows? John Blair says Philip Dow might be better suited for your question about what's the cheers of Charlottesville and kind of the southern side.
Starting point is 00:43:00 But he says, and he knows Philip Dow is the mayor of Scottsville over there. We've dubbed him the mayor of Scottsville. He says, but to the cheers on the south side of Almar County, tabard on the James and Scottsville seems like a candidate. what makes a cheers of Charlottesville it's a location where the wealthy the white collar the middle class the blue collar are all welcomed and not judged what makes a cheers of Charlottesville a location that is far from pretentious a location that's approachable and welcoming no matter what your attire is Yeah. Our sons walked in with underarmor shirts on and underarmor shorts on. I think I had a quarter zip on in shorts.
Starting point is 00:43:51 My wife, I think, had yoga pants on in a quarter zip. We were greeted up the host of stand and no one looked us up and down for having athletic apparel on. You go into Vivachi or lazy parrot and you see folks that are in their working uniforms. with paint in grease and banged up hands all the way to folks in three-piece suits with ties on and no one judges. There's few areas, there's few melting pots in Charlottesville left like this.
Starting point is 00:44:26 Lazy Parrot, Vavachi, Timberwood, they embody these qualities. Millers You don't think so You see all kinds of people in there When they got John Dirt And some jazz going on Are you going to see
Starting point is 00:44:48 As many like Parents or family folk I wouldn't bring my kids to Millers I'd bring my kids to lazy parent I'd bring my kids to Timberwood And I'd bring my kids to Vivace okay that's fair you're not going to see the working class go
Starting point is 00:45:08 to millers during happy hour after a work day after a work day and men in suits women in suits the working class overalls or uniforms name on their chest they're not going to go to
Starting point is 00:45:24 millers for a couple of beverages and to shoot the you know what that's more destination I don't know but just my two cents I certainly wouldn't bring my kids there. Vanessa Park Hill, a tongue-in-cheek comment from VP,
Starting point is 00:45:42 but who needed a Western bypass after all? James Watson, you should see if somebody can let you know how much vacancy they have or don't have at North Point because I think it's got thousands and thousands of unused square feet, but I have nothing to validate that on other than walking around there once or twice a year. Conan Owen says I disagree in where AstraZeneca employees
Starting point is 00:46:06 will live. This is a manufacturing plant skilled manufacturing but not all suits and PhDs. The execs will live in FRAZ grant and revitalize some of those great farms off 33 and 20. Conan Owen I will say this that Glenn Yonkin described the 600 jobs as fantastically
Starting point is 00:46:25 paying jobs. Glenn Yonkin's words. These are fantastically well-paying jobs. Glenn Yonkin's words there. I would bet many of these fantastically well-paying jobs because of the struggles of Almar County Public Schools will, and because of the level of intelligence
Starting point is 00:46:45 and acumen tied with the Astrosanica employees that they will be pursuing private school education for their offspring. My two cents. Everyone's shooting at the hip here, but that's what makes life great. This is the conversation we were having at Vibachi with eight or ten people.
Starting point is 00:47:02 Anything you want to add, J. Dubs? No. Any other headlines we need to get to that were not covered? A lot of them. What else we got? Let's see. What do you want to talk about? We've got...
Starting point is 00:47:18 My wife is pinging me. She says, make sure you tell the viewers and listeners that Maggie's is opening soon in Midtown in the former Blue Moon Diner Spot. Maggie's Midtown is what it's going to be called. What do we know about that? The Maggie's Midtown, I know this is why you watch the show viewers and listeners. One of the key guys behind Smyrna, which is often recognized as one of the best restaurants in Charlottesville, Smyrida and Midtown, located in the former Bella's restaurant location, is one of the key guys behind Maggie's and Midtown.
Starting point is 00:48:00 Maggie's in Midtown. I will get you more intel this week on that show after touching base with ownership on what I can or cannot say about their development and their pursuit of new F&B at the old Blue Moon Diner. Stay tuned for that.
Starting point is 00:48:20 I'd like to put on screen the Vinnie's and Miranda's closing news if you can put that on screen. This is a sad story. And a sad story that unfortunately got sadder. There was a news outlet called the, the heck is this news outlet called. The Piedmont Journal Recorder.
Starting point is 00:48:45 And I'm not throwing shade on the Piedmont Journal Recorder. Their tagline, local news, local knowledge. I appreciate the effort for local news from the Piedmont Journal recorder. But they highlight on over the weekend that two Rookersville area, of restaurants were shut down over non-payment of rents. Miranda's Grill, which is located in the Green countryside square strip mall along Seminole Trail and Rutgersville has shut down over non-payment of rent by Green County General District Court, and then neighboring Vinnie's New York Pizza Company has also met a similar demise.
Starting point is 00:49:22 Vinnie's in particular is a tough one to swallow. They were behind $66,560 in rent. rent. Then they also had $7,600 in late rent fees, $76 in court costs and $1,500 in attorney fees. Miranda's was $70,812 behind in rent, plus $5,350 in past due rent fees and bad check charges, $76 in court costs and $2,500 in attorney fees. So with Vinnie's, you're talking about, I'm doing some quick math here. You're talking basically $75,000, $76,000.
Starting point is 00:50:10 Yeah. Miranda's you're talking very similar, $75,000, $76,000. These are sad stories. People are, like, quick to jump on these business owners for getting behind on rent. Sad stories. A guy, a guy like Vinnie, who's,
Starting point is 00:50:30 own Vinnie's for nearly 40 years does not want to fall $66,000 behind on rent. Yeah. And I can tell you, as someone who's a landlord, we have 24 tenants, who's had to go through the eviction process, it's awful.
Starting point is 00:50:49 We've had, on behalf of a client, had to go and change the locks on a tenant and then go and sell their biotechnology equipment for 50 cents on the dollar. I've told that story before on this show.
Starting point is 00:51:06 One of my clients, a mentor of mine, had a biotech lab. They got so behind on rent and continued to order new biotechnology equipment because we saw it on camera outside their lab that eventually were like, dude, what are you doing? We're setting you notarized letters,
Starting point is 00:51:24 notarized letters. We're telling you in person, emails, calls. We're giving you every benefit of the doubt you were 11 months behind on rent what are you doing we don't want to evict you you have a lab that's been custom built for you yeah and then eventually once fedex and uPS and amazon or whoever the vendor is these are fancy dancy vendors continue to develop to continue to drop new biotechnology equipment at their front door or at a time where they try to sneak the equipment in so we don't see it because they know we have a camera You then have to go and change the locks. Then they desperately want the biotechnology equipment back because without the biotechnology equipment, they can't do biotechnology.
Starting point is 00:52:15 And we're like, you owe us 11 months of rent. Pay us the money and we'll give you, we can't pay you the money. I'm sorry. And then next thing you know, I'm selling biotechnology equipment for 50 cents on the dollar. And I'll tell you what, I was damn good at that. sold about all of it, recouped a lot of the back rent, if not all of it. I think we came out ahead on that. I'm pretty sure we came out ahead on that.
Starting point is 00:52:42 But it's miserable. It's miserable. So I feel for Miranda's and I feel for Vinnie's, especially for Vinnie's, who's been there in Green for nearly 40 years. What other headlines are we talked about? Is UVA the last one? we should give some love to Charlottesville Sanitary Supply.
Starting point is 00:53:01 Charlottesville Sanitary Supply has been supporting this community through Sanitary Supply on East High Street for 61 years online at Charlestfulanitary Supply.com on High Street, the Vermillion family,
Starting point is 00:53:15 the owners of Charlottesville Sanitary Supply have run this business for three years as a family and their Vermilion family have been in Almar County for five years. They have free delivery. They will beat any prize.
Starting point is 00:53:27 and will get the product to your house in the area for free faster than any of the big box brands. Why you're not ordering any sanitary supply stuff ordering, buying mila vacuums or pool robots, pool cleaning, anything clean-wise
Starting point is 00:53:43 from Charlotte. You should do it all from Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. They literally beat the big box brands with delivery at the same price and you're supporting local. Yeah. And it's phenomenal human beings. We'll close with football, and we'll talk about this with Jerry Rackleff tomorrow at 10.15 a.m., the Virginia Sports Hall of Famer on the Jerry and Jerry Show.
Starting point is 00:54:06 Ladies and gentlemen, this is a monumental week for the Atlantic Coast Conference and for Virginia football. First, I want to talk about this. There's 13 undefeated power conference teams left in league play. The ACC has Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami. SMU and Virginia. Duke and Georgia Tech play this weekend, so one of them will lose. Miami plays Louisville, a very good team. An SMU, whose undefeated power conference team and league play travels to Clemson. So after this weekend, either Duke or Georgia Tech will have a loss in conference play. Miami is playing a very good Louisville team that could beat the
Starting point is 00:54:52 Hurricanes, and SMU plays Clemson that's desperate. Virginia's got Washington State and a homecoming matchup on Saturday. UVA climbed up the polls to number 18 in the nation. The Hoos could run the rest of the schedule. They play at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday on the miserable CW network. The Wahoos are a 17.5 point favorite with the over, under at 56 and change. We break this game down from every angle
Starting point is 00:55:26 on the Jerry and Jerry show tomorrow at 10.15 a.m. right here on the I Love Seville Network. And we highlight the fine folks at Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes. One of their key team members will join us on the program on Wednesday. Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes. Any custom heartscape need you have
Starting point is 00:55:42 at your house. It's Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes. Oak Valley LH.com. They have a phenomenal office on the downtown mall, Oak Valley Custom Harts. And they can customize any need that you have at your house from a heartscape standpoint, Oak Valley Custom Hartscapes. Closing thoughts did you to Wickhauer. Closing thoughts. Fall is here. Get your pumpkins. Get your warm clothing out of the closet. It's beautiful out
Starting point is 00:56:18 there. Enjoy it. Get your pumpkins. Get your warm clothing, fall is here. There we go. I like it. I like pumpkins. I like warm clothing, and I like fall. And I like Judah Wickhauer. This is the I Love Civo show on a Monday afternoon.
Starting point is 00:56:34 Thank you kindly for joining us. So long, everybody. Thank you. Thank you.

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