The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Spanberger & UVA Hammered In Wall Street Journal; David Toscano Rips Glen Youngkin & Sheridan

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

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Good Thursday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville Show. It's a pleasure to connect with you guys through the I Love Seville Network, a show that is the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesville and in Central Virginia. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast today, including Governor-elect Abigail Spamberger and the University of Virginia. getting hammered in the Wall Street Journal, that conversation on today's show.

We're going to talk David Tiscano, ripping Glenn Yonkin and Rachel Sheridan, and the Daily Progress. We're going to talk a $300,000 earmarked taxpayer allocation for an environmental remediation for the city yard and the Star Hill neighborhood. What is that going to happen? we'll talk sweepriar college and for the second straight year an esteemed private school for women in the commonwealth of virginia is facing an enrollment decline second straight year is that an indication of what's to come for future universities and colleges i just am not bullish on the four-year uh college and university business model anymore unless you're one of the top five or ten percent colleges and universities out there You have serious headwinds, ladies and gentlemen. We'll talk about that on today's program. We'll talk Roeback's grand opening in the shops, the Barracks Road Shopping Center. Tony Elliott being on the short list for national coach of the year.

Yes, national coach of the year. He's a semi-finalist. If Tony Elliott beats Virginia Tech, and if Tony Elliott makes the ACC championship game and happens to win the ACC championship and secures a spot in the college football playoff, you're probably looking at Tony Elliott as your national coach of the year. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about that on the program. And we'll talk Old Dominion, Old Dominion National Bank in a grand opening on the near horizon on West Main Street in the flats. This is the building where Mexicale is located.

Some of these vacant storefronts are finally getting filled on West Main Street. This is a fantastic, fantastic. rundown of content for you, the viewer, and listener, as we are today's version of your newspaper for you. Judah Wickhauer is behind the camera, director and producer of the fine and fair talk show. We'll give some props, Judah Wickhauer, to Conan Owen of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. He did the banner directly behind me. He's got the vinyl lettering on our storefront, Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. He's helping us with our tenant portfolio 24, doors and the signage associated with that portfolio updating them improving them he's

helping us in other commercial building positions that we're a part of from a consultancy or management or or council standpoint and i've seen firsthand with our client roster our firm's client roster of how conan owen and surfpedia central virginia have i've done a very good job of being a business ally for small, medium, and large-sized businesses locally. He's a Darden graduate. He's who you contact for any signage need you may have. Carol Thorpe, Philip Dow, Vanessa Parkhill, welcome to the broadcast. If you're watching the show, I don't ask you for compensation. I don't ask you for pittance. I don't ask you for donation. I just want you to hit the like button. Share the show. That's it. Retweet the show. Like the show. Share the show. Tom Powell says he

loves our program and it helps keep him connected in the area. He's the founder of the toy lift. We featured the toy lift yesterday with the current president in front of the program, Dave Fafara. Tom Pall also a program. You need to donate to the toy lift. Ladies and gentlemen, the toy lift

is the start of the holiday season in the Charlottesville area. Contribute toys, contribute volunteer time, contribute money. It doesn't keep going without our community support. And the toy lift is something special. James Watson, welcome to the broadcast.

Dave Warwick, Jayhu Martin, Stephanie Wells Rhodes, Betsy Nugent, fantastic forehand on Betsy Nugent, just an all-around awesome player, awesome woman on Betsy Nugent. Love you, Bets. Studio camera, J-Dubbs. Two-shot you. It's funny. And, Judah, here we are at the end of 2025.

Going into, oh, you got some branding in there for the toy lift, too? Gosh, you're just, you get a gold star today. Thank you. It's not even a payday Friday today. It's a baby Friday Thursday on a non-payday week, but props to you, my friend. Thank you. Nicely done. You're helping the kiddos who need the toy.

How about the number more than 700,000 children have benefited from the toy lift in the last 36 years? That is amazing. That's wonderful. My family has occasionally taken part. and similar types of things. Of course, we've given toys for the toy drive, but we've also, through our church, done things, and it's a great feeling being able to give something to someone.

In fact, they call it the season of giving, and, you know, as kids, we're always looking for what we're getting under the tree, but really what really warms your heart is being able to give to someone else. The toy lift is Friday, December 5th, so 14 days in counting to the toy lift. You know, I mentioned this to Dave Fafara yesterday. This community is overwhelmed with, like, an abundance of resources and riches. Yeah. We talk about these resources and riches all the time.

We talk about AstraZeneca, 4.5 billion. dollars. We talk about 600 jobs tied to this facility in northern Elmore County with an average of 600 jobs, AstraZeneca, is bringing to Charlottesville of $125,000 per job. We talk about the Paul Manning Biotech Institute on Fontaine. What is that a nine-figure check written by the multi-billionaire Paul Manning to UVA? As well as the massive amounts and numbers. of donations to go to UVA on a yearly basis as well. The football team's got a salary cap,

this football roster of essentially $30 million. You want to know why this football team's so good? The number's $30 million, ladies and gentlemen. That's the cost of this roster. Your quarterback Chandler Morris is a few days younger than Jaden Daniels. He's making $1.3 million a year. This past Saturday in Durham, He lined up against a Duke quarterback that's on a two-year $8 million contract.

You want to be good in sports in college now? It's millions of dollars of donation. We talk about the show that if Virginia makes the football team, the college football playoff, there's an anonymous donor that's ready to reward the athletic department and the football program with a $10 million plus donation. Know who it is, know what it's about, don't have the right. to say it. It's not my news to break, but I do have the approval to mention, 10 plus million dollar check is on the near horizon if this football team makes the college football playoff

thanks to a very deep pocketed individual. We talk about the HUD median family household income, Judah, just under $126,000 median family household income for the Charlottesville metro area. When that number comes out in a few months, Judah, that number is going to be even higher. No doubt. Talk about the data science school. we talk about all this abundance of resource and rich resources and riches what we don't talk about on this program is 700,000 kids more than 700,000 kids in the last 36 years of a nonprofit that didn't have any toys on Christmas Day yeah and can I I there's few things on my short list As a father of two young children, a three-year-old, a kid who turns three on Thanksgiving,

a kid who's seven, high-energy kids, good night, they're high energy. Ran around last night in our house, 8.45 at night, my wife and I put them to bed. We divide and conquer. One of us takes the oldest, reads a book to the oldest. The other one takes the youngest. I say, if it's my turn with the youngest, youngest, get in the poop position. The poop position means lie down on the ground so I can change your diaper and get your diaper clean and ready for bad. Then I put his jammies on. I tuck him on. I burrito baby him in blankets. Our youngest, are you ready for the burrito baby? He goes, brito baby, daddy. Then I turn on his nightlight. I turn on his white noise maker. I make sure

the kid camera, the baby cam is pointed to him and ready to go. And my wife and I walk out the door of our boys' rooms, their respective rooms, at around 8.15 last night, that's late for them, especially a three-year-old. They're a nighthouse. We head to our room. I got a nice cold IPA in my hand. My wife's exhausted after looking after a soon-to-be-three-year-old. We put on something on Netflix. She's super into house right now. She's watching the Netflix show, The House, or binge-watching it. Fifteen minutes later, both our boys are sprinting into our room, buck-ass naked, no clothes on, running around in circles, wild animals, gitty with energy while we are straight up exhausted, trying to jump and wrestle each other while they are completely naked. We look at each other.

We scream, get to your room. That's not going to work with a two-year-old. It's not like he's going to dress himself. So we head back into the room, dress them, poop position, diaper, burrito baby again, and then we have to utilize a little bit of threatening language like, hey, Santa's watching. Do you want to be on the naughty list or the good list? And it's in that moment when we finally got them down that I realized that my entire world, my wife's entire world, are these two boys, our hearts walking and living and breathing outside our body,

We do anything for them, even if they aggravate the bejibus out of us, which they do, we love them dearly. And the whole point of this story is, as a father of two boys, 700,000 kids in the last 36 years of toy lift that woke up in the morning and did not have any toys to open, there's few things in my life as a parent that I find more saddening than that. and to see what Tom Powell and Dave before on Toy Lift are doing the special. It's what makes the community special. And as the water cooler of content and conversation, the I Love Seville Show in Charlottesville and Central

Virginia, we can champion the abundance of riches and resources, but we have to have frank conversations that there is a lot of people, thousands of people in this community, that aren't just that it's not just scraping by, that can't give toys to

their children. And think about it from the parents' perspective. Oh, that's, yeah. It's not just the kids' perspective. It's sad for the kids, but for the parents, it's heartbreaking to not be able to provide whatever it is, whether it's presence, whether it's, you know, food, whether it's a roof over the head of your child. That is, I can't imagine just the heartbreak of the sense of demoralization and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and. not feeling, feeling worthy. And anyone that's in that position, it's not that.

If you're a parent and you're just winning the battle of raising humans to be good people and keeping the lights on and food on the table, the rent paid, the mortgage paid, some gas in the car, some groceries in the fridge, then damn it, parents, you're doing a phenomenal job. we are blasted and inundated thanks to YouTube thanks to social media thanks to commercialization that these kids need an abundance of toys and abundance of stuff dude when I was a kid growing up

I don't know how it was with you we got one big toy for Christmas we get I get a golf club on some days some Christmas maybe a bike maybe like a baseball mitt you know maybe a football or a tennis racket

it was always sports related probably because they wanted us outside now it's like the commercialization of Christmas it makes it seem like we constantly have to have hundreds of gifts under the tree you're doing a good job moms and dads and dads and dads and moms and moms jobs. If you got groceries in the fridge, the rent paid, the mortgage paid, the electric bill paid, gas in the car, and you're giving your kids love. And don't let commercialized

America tell you otherwise. Don't let your kids watch commercials either. Don't let your kids on screen time. Lots to cover on the program. How about the Wall Street Journal? Headline on screen. I love you guys, viewers and listeners. I sincerely mean this. I love doing the show with you guys. Wall Street Journal, Judah, lower third on screen. you got this UVA soap opera is in the world's newspaper yeah the University of Virginia soap opera is in the world's newspaper thanks to a viewer and listener

who took a screenshot of the the journal this morning sent me the article Spamberger's premature takeover of UVA with the pool quote with the pool quote from the article the governor elect tells the school to wait for her to pick a new leader the soap opera is gaining momentum oh and there's dueling banjos coming from Wall Street Journal and Daily Progress

Daily Progress owned by Lee Enterprise Fantastic organization David Tuscano is published in the Daily Progress the former mayor of Charlottesville the institutional delegate Virginia delegate an icon in commonwealth politics David Tiscano has a fabulous corner office

and in an iconic eight-story building on the downtown mall. Sweeping views all-around great guy, David Descano, pens a article, pens a letter to the Daily Progress, ripping... I think it's an article.

First-hand perspective and commentator ripping Rachel Sheridan and Glenn Yonkin. Yeah. We have a fight in front of the world that is not with machetes and machine guns we have a fight

in front of the world that is not with bombs and flamethrowers but instead it's with Macbooks and Montblonks Macbooks and Montblonks are causing

are the weapon of choice for the players in this pit and this field and this brouhaha and I'll try to dot the eyes and cross the T's of the most unpolitical way possible. Spamberger is overreaching by telling the Board of Visitors, don't do anything until I'm in office. Glenn Yonkins left the board in the University of Virginia in an absolute disarray.

The Trump administration and his cronies at the Department of Justice have overreach, trying to manipulate the University of Virginia. Jim Ryan did a piss poor job with managing the University of Virginia. Craig Kent, damn near criminal, what he's done with this white collar racketeering and the Kenner Prize.

Rachel Sheridan, shame on her for this back room wheeling and dealing. Porter Wilkinson, I'm putting you in that pot as well, Porter. Every single person in this equation has egg on the every single person and now all these players are trying to do from the DOJ and

Trump to to Jim Ryan and Craig Kent and Rachel Sheridan and Porter Wilkinson and Glenn Yonkin and Abigail Spamberger they're all trying to recreate or reposition their brand personal and real time and save or salvage their legacy and long time in the future. That's all they're doing. And the only people that really take it here, who's the losers here? Certainly the patients at the health system.

Students. Students? Parents questioning, whether it's worth it to go a quarter million in debt for them to go here? I mean, one of our headlines, you can put them on screen. You're rotating lower thirds on screen, right? How about the Sweet Briar College story? Sweet Briar College saw a decline in enrollment this fall for the second year in a row.

That's from data from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. This comes more than a year after the private women's college in Amherst County changed its missions policy to ban transgender students more than a decade after it's near closure. Sweep Ryers total enrollment this year, 373 students from 438 last year. Mary Baldwin's struggling with enrollment. Ladies and gentlemen, viewers and listeners of all shapes and sizes, put your hand in the air if you're bullish on four-year colleges and universities right now. My prediction, and it's not a novel or bold prediction, unless your four-year college or university

is at the pinnacle of the profession, the pinnacle of higher education, your model is one that has major headwinds because the cost of operating, your operating budget, your yearly budget, the cost of running your school is going up while your demand is going down because the internet and technology,

ubiquitous and approachable is democratizing education while artificial intelligence is cannibalizing the jobs that are being birthed from these four-year degrees. You and I are very different on this AI thing. This AI thing, my vantage point, is going to slice and dice human beings in their jobs. I don't disagree with that.

That's part of my problem with it. you what I don't necessarily disagree with that assessment but that's part of my problem with AI it's what do they call this AI is today's version of the industrial revolution yeah more or less

put that in perspective for the viewers and listeners well the industrial revolution was originally thought to be a big step for for mankind and it would help you know It would help streamline processes. It would help people like, well, it would help people do their jobs faster, more efficiently.

Of course, what ended up happening is the people that buy the machines that do the industrializing, realize that you need less people to do what, you know, once you get the processes in place, you don't need the same 20 people to run a piece of machinery that does that exact same job you might only need four or five people so you end up you end up with a lot of people looking for jobs somewhere else

and I think the same thing is happening with AI it's seen as a tool which it is and it can be very helpful I don't I don't deny that but what I think in the end is going to happen is that the companies that are going to figure out how to use it they're going to hire people to help them use it better

and then they're going to fire those people and a lot of other people once they figure out the best way to make it to make it costworthy. Profits over people, 100%. He basically says this is like a George Jetson scenario. Meet the Jetsons. the Bade at the Jetson family was a robot. This is like a Star Trek scenario.

This is like an R2D2 scenario. Okay? This is like a Marty McFly Back to the Future 2 scenario. When he goes into the 80s diner and back to the future too and he's getting served by robots. Okay?

Sweet Briar College enrollment dropping. Put your hand in the air if you're a mom and dad and you want your kid to go to a four-year college that's a middle-of-the-road college or a lower-tiered college. Uncertain what your kid's going to major in, knowing they're going to come out $150,000 to $250,000 in debt. And by the time they come out of college four years from now

and start an entry-level job, AI and technology is going to be even more ubiquitous and approachable than it was when he started or she started the four-year track. Who wants to do that? Who wants to do that, knowing that the electrician, the plumbing, the work with your hands, track, the remodeling track, is not going to be replaced by the artificial intelligence. This sweepwriter story is foreshadowing of what's to come for other four-year colleges.

The value proposition of the education must be much more than book learning. You take a school like Hampton, Sydney, Hampton Sydney College. Hampton City and Sydney College, fantastic private school in Farm Bill. The value proposition of a Hampton Sydney College is its network of alumni that take care of its graduating base. You take a school like the Ivy League, same thing. UVA, same type of thing. The middle of the road, lower tier ones, no way, Jose. Conan Owen, plus the natural administrative burden of academic types is killing schools with overhead.

we could lose one third of colleges in Virginia and no one would notice other than the alumni it's from conan jason nobles photo on screen artificial intelligence is a new techno technological presence we have to adapt to if we are ahead of it we are behind it i put some uh i was talking to a buddy am i he syndicates real estate deals right he syndicates real estate deals i'll put in in a like a newsletter no it's not that at all i'll put in i'll put in a nutshell what he does what he does is he finds opportunity to buy real estate and he's the promoter he goes to his syndicate of investors and he puts a model together And this business model might be Excel-based, PowerPoint-based. It's very detailed in projections and pro forma and revenue projections, rent-roll predictions, overhead, net operating income, just basically the business model of the deal.

And he has anywhere from eight to 15 of these deals in the mix that he's syndicating to various investor groups. And how he makes his money is a promote fee up front where he gets a percentage of the deal. He makes his money by getting some equity. And he makes his money by getting a management fee. That's very simple terms. And he hopes one of these eight to 15 deals that he has going that one or two hit, he may, in the grand scheme of things,

do one, two, three deals. a year. It's very sophisticated in what he's doing. He has indicated to me with artificial intelligence and how he's got it dialed in putting this package together,

this detailed package where he had a graphic designer as part of the presentation. It's like a 50, 60, 70 page deck that was being presented to 100 plus millionaires. He'd have graphic designers in there, copy,

writers in there, photographers in there, he'd have people helping him do the modeling, putting together, and it said it would take him anywhere from three to five weeks to put the package together, soup to nuts. He said now with artificial intelligence, he's

doing it in a mere days. And all these people that were a part of the presentation package, few of them are a part of it now. He's streamlined everything. And most importantly, he saved the time. what's going to be like in four years

sweepbrier college down UVA and the University of Virginia in the Wall Street Journal David Tiscano fighting Spamberger David Tiscano excuse me fighting Yonkin and Rachel Sheridan with Macbooks and Montblanks

Wild time to be alive Judah Wick Coward next headline what do we got on screen my friend And while we're at it, my friend, let's give some love to just a fabulous company. Charlestful Sanitary Supply, 61 consecutive years in business. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, ladies and gentlemen, is who you contact for anything sanitary related, anything cleaning related, anything swimming pool related, anything vacuum repair related, mila vacuums, the best vacuums, you can possibly buy the mila vacuum.

They will last you and your family 15 to 20 years. There's no better vacuum to purchase than the Mela vacuum, and Charlottesville Sanitary Supply has the rights to sell those on East High Street and online at Charlesville Sanitary Supply.com. Their website, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply.com, is frankly better than anything you could find online at Amazon or anything else. And they do free in-market delivery. Many cases day up, John Vermillion, Andrew Vermillion, A-plus people, flying chess bumps for the Vermilions. Love those guys. I sincerely mean that. William McChesney, welcome to the program.

Philip Dow says we're seeing a civil war for power and recognition at UVA. A civil war for power and recognition. John Blair watching the program. Get Johnny Blair's photo on screens. I had a fantastic conversation with Mr. Blair's wife last night. Fabulous person. He said, oh yeah, he said my wife said she saw you and your son playing squash yesterday. and that he's going to be quite the star.

Thank you for saying that. She was very kind. Thank you for saying that. We are putting in the work. In fact, I hope, is Stephen O'Dwyer watching the program right now? Is Stephen watching the program? He's the head squash coach at the Borset. Stephen O'Dwyer is the type of human being you want your sons or daughters around.

I want my kids around Stephen O'Dwyer as much as possible. I sincerely mean that. someone tell Stephen O'Dwyer I said that John Blair says here's an interesting story colleges are so desperate for applicants that they now have a one-click application process that is a sign of struggle and a need for revenue here's the story and then he shares the link on my LinkedIn

one-click application process if our son sons It seems crazy with the way they've escalated the costs. They can't help it. They can help it. They can help it. They have to keep the costs going up for the colleges and universities because the labor associated with the college and universities are unionizing.

They're collective bargaining. But they're coming out. Think about it this way, Judah. And you jump in. The colleges and universities are hiring people that have massive student debt themselves. And the only way those colleges and universities can keep the talent, the professors, the assistant professors, the research fellows, the grad students, who all have massive student debt. debt, the only way they can keep them in this educational sector of college and university is paying them money that keeps them in a cush job as opposed to them pursuing the private

sector that's way less cush. The private sector, the expectations, the hours, the stress, much more grueling than academia. The reason people pursue academia is many reasons. One of them is obviously to make a difference in the next generation's life by helping to mold their mind. We hope that is the main reason, right? But the clear perks of academia are cush, less stress, especially when you get to tenure and you can never get fired once you're tenured. These folks, when they're in a position where they can never get fired and are paid 100, 200, 300,000, 400, Jim Ryan's getting paid a million.

to work 15 hours a week and has 14 months of a crude vacation. You got a guy who got fired from UVA. Excuse me, got resigned. What's going to get fired if he didn't do it? Resign under duress, Jim Ryan. As part of his resignation package, he's got 14 months of paid leave where he's making a million dollars in compensation per year

over that 14-month period of time. Then he comes back after that 14 months, and he's making like $700,000 a year to teach a handful of classes at the law school. His job, after residing from UVA under duress and taking 14 months of paid leave where he's making a million plus to come back to teach two or three classes and get paid $700,000, his job is way better being the teacher and making $700,000. and teaching two classes than making a million dollars and being a what a whipping boy a whipping boy you agree definitely the last part 100% the reason colleges and universities are so expensive is because the labor associated with the colleges colleges and universities are so expensive and all these damn buildings that they're building around them what is the operating budget just for electricity for insurance for maintenance and

upkeep for these damn buildings at the University of Virginia. Their yearly budget is $5.2 million. That's insane. I'll say that again. Did you viewer and listeners know that the operating budget for the University of Virginia on a yearly basis is north of $5.2 billion? We learned that from Bert Ellis earlier this year. Unbelievable.

Deep Throat, I'd love to see the photos you sent me, but they're not loading. Can you resend those photos to my Twitter DM? I'd love to see what you sent. Comments coming in quickly. Judea Wickauer. Next headline, what do we got? Oh, let's see. Next up, we've got 300,000 for environmental work.

I saw this in Sean Tubbs's newsletter. You ready for this? $300,000 in taxpayer money is just floating in the city hall universe. And this $300,000 in taxpayer money, you ready for this, Judah? Is earmarked for the environmental remediation at city yard in the Star Hill neighborhood. So maybe they can do something with it eventually? It's seen Sean Tubbs reports

this as a precursor for any eventual development. There's a what do you call it, a small area plan for the city yard. I've talked about the city yard for like a decade on this show. Gosh, the print on this is getting smaller.

You know how life gives you like the big, you know how life gives you like a mocking and teasing middle finger? All the time. You know how life is like constantly mocking you and teasing you and it seems like it's flicking you the bird? Here are a couple

things I've noticed lately. Why is there less hair on my head and more hair in my ears and in my nose and on my back? Viewers and listeners, why do I have less hair on my head where I want the hair and more hair in my ears, nose, in my back, where I don't want the hair?

viewers and listeners why does life make the words smaller on the page and more difficult to read as you get older why why viewers and listeners do i need to take the the font size of my phone and make it bigger or on my macbook zoom in to read the words it's like life giving you the big middle finger i had this conversation with my wife every year that goes by with our sons every year more expensive health insurance jumping 30%

nothing's changing kids are just getting older and more susceptible to injury and stuff we're just getting older school costs more expensive clothes costs more expensive these kids they don't stop eating food my son our oldest son this morning

and had four Lego my ego wafels. Four. That's good stuff there. Then he walked out the door, grabbed an apple, and ate an apple in the car. What seven-year-old that must weigh 59 pounds, eats four waffles at an apple before 7.15 in the morning? Jeez, Louise. The Costco Big Box isn't even enough. the city yard

I'm getting distracted Judy you're distracted distracted before they can do anything with this phenomenal piece of property the city yard they need to figure out

an environmental study and probably do some mold remediation I got a client got a client client's looking to scoop and score some commercial real estate this commercial real estate

I'm not going to say where not going to speak out of turn never do on this show everyone's like how do you navigate doing this show without I do it extremely well that's how we get the information this guy's looking to scoop up some commercial real estate right this client

there's a dry cleaner and the commercial real estate if you're looking to scoop up a piece of commercial real estate and a dry cleaner has been in that location you've got to be very wary of the deal because those chemicals that the dry cleaner uses

seeps into the ground and any kind of remodeling worked on, any kind of deal that you're kind of broker, any kind of product you're kind of building your kind of sell, you're going to sell. That dry cleaner and those chemicals that seep into the ground are going to show up and cause red flags and friction.

The city yard thing, what kind of chemicals have seeped into this Star Hill neighborhood with how many acres is the city yard? I mean, is it 10 plus? Can you Google the city yard? Judean, tell me how many acres is in there?

Oh, right. Charlottesville City Yard should come up right away. What kind of chemicals have seeped into that ground? Explain to me, ladies and gentlemen, why the city of Charlottesville in a landlocked 10.2 square mile city 10.2 square mile city explain to me

why the Charlottesville is storing their trucks and their vehicles their heavy equipment and all their chemicals in the heart of the city at a city that has no room for development I mean the city yard piece of land I've talked about this on previous shows

the most prized pieces of dirt for development in Charlottesville are the city yard, Ix Park, the hairy A. Wright junkyard by Beer Run. I guess now the land they bought from Wendell Wood on the banks of the Rivana, where they kibosh development that front of the program

Bo Carrington was going to do. So basically in Charlottesville, you have Ix Park, the city yard, the junkyard next to Beer Run, and the banks of the Ripe. River on High Street, where Barak, Bocair. Those are your four best pieces of property, undeveloped property in the city right now. And one of those four pieces is storing heavy equipment, machinery, vehicles, trucks, automobiles, basically junk for the city. Deep Throats

photo on screen. There was a coal gas facility there for decades on the city yard. $300,000 would probably cover a study. I'm guessing remediation is at least in order of magnitude higher than that. I would not be surprised if the remediation of the city yard was in the $5 billion range. Do you have a number on the acreage on that?

I believe it's 9.4. So I said 10. I remember about 10 over there. Yolanda Harrell and New Hill Development, they did a small area plan of what the city yard could be. Tom Powell, watching the program. It's like, he says this. It's like when you buy an old gas station

because you want the dirt and you want to tear down the gas station, DEQ will be your worst nightmare. 100%. I saw that with, I helped a buddy do a deal a couple years ago. I'm not going to say where. There was a, there was a dry cleaner on there. It was an effing nightmare to find financing for this shopping center. And we had to go through a private lender, a hard money lender that actually offer pretty reasonable terms because traditional financing wasn't an option

because of the dry cleaner. Imagine doing a deal where you work on something for 11 to 14 months. And then in the final stanza, Your financing falls through because there was a dry cleaner on the site 12 years ago.

Imagine doing that. And then having to scramble to figure out the financing after. We got it done. Comments coming in quick. Fastest way to lower the cost of college to ensure the value of the education is to take the government out of the student loan guarantees. Conan Owen 100% Conan Owen 100%. This comment comes into play. And speaking to Conan Owen, put the bank, put the bank headline on screen. Old Dominion National Bank, ladies and gentlemen, Old Dominion National Bank is coming to the flats on West Main Street. That's next to Mexicale. Old Dominion National Bank is coming

to the flats next to Mexicale. Where's Old Dominion National Bank? Where's Old Dominion National? Bank based out of. Thank you for that tip, Conan. I'm going to their contact page. Gosh, no one has just a contact page. Are there locations in ours? Old Dominion National Bank has a branch at Tyson's Corner in Tyson's Corner, in Tyson's Corner,

a branch in Leesburg, in Leesburg, Virginia. They have a branch in Tyson's Corner and Westwood Center. That's their main office. So their main office is Westwood Center Drive in Tyson's Corner. They have a branch in Haverford, Pennsylvania, an ATM only in Washington, D.C., a branch coming soon on West Main Street in the flats. They have a North Garden branch on Plank Road, a Scottsville branch, a State College, Pennsylvania

branch, two of them in State College, one in Boca Raton, Florida. So this is a small bank. This is a small bank. They're going to have a kind of a flagship location on West Main Street in the flats. next to Mexico. That place has been vacant forever. Some of those storefronts with the standard across the way, where pot bellies was, pot bellies close, they never opened. Yeah. Never open.

Philip Dow, Mayor of Scottsville is watching the program. He says they got a popular one in Scottsville. Thank you, Mayor of Scottsville. Jason Noble, AI reduces so much overhead. It's insane. We can apply this to everything. people don't realize the the job destruction that's on the horizon with artificial intelligence next headline what do you got juda wikara let's see rowback about that we broke this news on the

i love seville show we broke this news on the i love seville show months ago their grand opening is saturday roback ladies and gentlemen and there's some specials. They're going to crush it there. I love Roebacks. My favorite brand. I don't have a Roeback quartersip on, but my shirt underneath is Roebuck and my pants are Roebuck. I think I'd wear Roebuck pretty much every day. A piece of Roebuck pretty much every day. It's fantastic. Breaves well. Roebuck created by UVA Darden graduates. They're open in Barracks Road shopping center. The business model of Roebuck is genius. They scaled. They scaled. They scaled. by putting their merchandise initially into the country club, golf, and tennis shops,

which created an elevated customer base, which raised the visibility of their brand. Then they were genius with their play on social media. Not to mention their branding. Branding is genius. I mean, think of it. They've got how many top-tier schools that they cater to in their designs? It's a true success story of birthed here in Charlottesville. Roebuck and Barracks Road. They're going to crush it in Berwick's Road.

First 100-dollar gift card Saturday. You're going to be camping out for that, Roebuck, June? I just might, but the money like that on the line. Chandler Morris is going to be there for a meet and greet at 11. Chandler Morris is a Roback University athlete. And you get 20% off store-wide. There you go. Can't feed that. Next headline, Judah Wickcarrow, what do you got?

Let's see. Elliot? I mean, dude, from outhouse to penthouse. Right? In the nick of time, too. Do you think he had another year? No. He didn't have another year. If this didn't happen, he would have on fire. He's a semi-finalist for the national coach of the year. Tony Elliott is a semi-finalist for the national coach of the year. the cavaliers are nine and two overall jerry rackliff.com reports this their best record through 11 games since 2007 they're atop the atlantic coast conference standings at six and one prior to this season virginia had won nine or more games in a season just eight times in the program's 136 year history eight times eight times they've only had a double digit winning season one other year good lord

Tony Elliott, gosh, outhouse to Pennhouse, national semi-finalists. And he's got Virginia Tech on the docket. I hope he steps on their throat and rub some dirt in their eyes. And Scott's stating him a week from Saturday. I got hockey fans watching this program. Step on their throat, Tony, and get some dirt and rub it in their eyes. As you try to make a push for the ACC championship. we'll give some love to oak valley custom heartscapes

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This business has been humming over here. 8.30 arrivals for Judah Wickhauer. I get here at 7. 8.30 arrivals, Chutawick Hauer. That's early for you. He normally likes to set his hours of 930 to 630. You got pretty sweet kid. 930 to 630, right? Instead, 830 to 530. Do you want the 830 to 530 to be the norm? Or you like the 930 to 630. I mean, you and I both know that the traffic is miles different between 830 and 930 and 530 and 630. So you like the 930 to 630? Because you avoid the traffic. I don't have to worry about the insanity. There you go. All right.

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