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Courtesy of Charlottesville Tomorrow - I recommend reading the entire post on what could have been (and may yet still) be a new business park in Crozet.
My primary question -
- What types of businesses and industries would they like to bring in? If they’re talking about seeking out high-value, low impact jobs - bio-tech, manufacturing, etc. wouldn’t that represent a possible net gain for Crozet?
On November 11, 2008, the Albemarle County Planning Commission held a work session on the proposed Yancey Mills Business Park in Crozet. The Commission came close to recommending that the development be reviewed as part of the upcoming Crozet Master Plan update, however, the discussion concluded with a 6-1 vote to end all further consideration of the matter. Linda Porterfield (Scottsville) was the only Commissioner who supported further study.
In an interview with Charlottesville Tomorrow the day after the decision, Will Yancey described what he had hoped to accomplish at the meeting.
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Charlottesville Tomorrow asked Will Yancey where he thought the family would go next with their business park proposal.
“The Yancey family is going to spend the next couple of weeks speaking with our advisors and the community. We will reach out to the Crozet community and try to reassure them that have been in the area for a long time, well over a hundred years, and we intend on keeping our word and to do what we say. The notion that we want to put in a shopping mall with a Stuckeys and a Cracker Barrel there is not what we have in mind at all. We will make a determination if we should go forward and bring this to the Board of Supervisors.”
