#9 dreams: Invasion of the super towers

#9 dreams: Invasion of the super towers

What will downtown Charlottesville look like in 20 years? If proposed nine-story building projects like Waterhouse and First & Main– not to mention a half-dozen other multi-story towers in the pipeline– are any indication, the answer is tall. Like giant spaceships landing on the Downtown Mall, these visions of the future have people both fascinated and worried.

Are they visitors from a friendly planet, or are they coming to destroy our way of life?

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• QUESTION OF THE WEEK- Should we have nine-story buildings downtown?

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Movie Reviews

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Hotseat

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• LETTER- Seymour deserves harsh sentence

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• 4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review

Art Features

• Culture- ART FEATURE- Sugar water: Regan's languorous landscapes

• Culture- ART FEATURE- What a crock! Potters wheel into Staunton

Cartoons

• CARTOONS

Cover Stories

• COVER- #9 dreams: Invasion of the super towers

Essays

• ESSAY- Father's day: You sound just like him

Facetime

• FACETIME- Suicidal cells: UVA's Petri dishes on a bad bug

Gimme Shelter

• GIMME SHELTER-Rover sleep-over: How to choose a kennel

Hotseat

• HOT SEAT- Entertainment U: Keeping up with the Joneses (Arena)

Letters

• LETTER- 'Boycat' the store

• LETTER- Blame the pet owner

• LETTER- It was only a cat!

• LETTER- Seymour deserves harsh sentence

Movie Reviews

• MOVIE REVIEW- Assinine Aniston:<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Giving divorce a bad name

Music Reviews

• MUSIC REVIEW- K-razy: James Brown knocks 'em dead

My Ride

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News

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• NEWS- Western spate: refusing an oath, 30 athletes ousted

Photophile

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Question of the Week

• QUESTION OF THE WEEK- Should we have nine-story buildings downtown?

Real Estate - On the Block

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Strange But True

• STRANGE BUT TRUE- Give me a...: Our body is made of levers

The Brazen Careerist

• THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Narrow focus: Get a specialty and stick to it

The Dish

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