Reader Question – What Cell Phone and Internet Provider?

In Crozet by Jim6 Comments

I would like to know what Internet provider and also what cell phone service folks in the Emerald Ridge/Saddle Hollow area use, especially those with smart phones.

This is a timely email, as this comment was just posted on a post from January of last year :

So I guess I can deduce from what everyone has written above is that go with Direct TV?

…I use Verizon (they have the best coverage in the Crozet/Charlottesville/Central Virginia area) and Comcast (who are mostly reliable but insanely, unnecessarily and unfortunately expensive).

From a Reader – Snowy Roads in Crozet

In Crozet by Jim17 Comments

“I was wondering what other roads in Crozet do not get touched for a couple of days after snow ? … There have been at least 6 cars stuck on High Street since yesterday morning, most recently 2 of them at 4:00 this morning. I really wish VDOT would get on a faster ball for the back roads since the main roads have been cleared for a while.” As an aside, Albemarle County Schools are closed tomorrow (2 February) and it looks like we’re going to have more snow tomorrow and this weekend .

Crozet Twitter Updates – Brief Notes for 2010-01-31

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RT @GoodwinCreek: 5” of snow @ GoodwinCreek & a truckload of fresh bread & eggs is heading to Crozet, don’t worry, we got you covered!

… Summary of the Q & A before I left Crozet mtg:”we don’t like undefined change and we don’t trust government, so what are we supposed to do”?

… RT @JimDuncan: A large crowd at tonight’s Crozet Master Plan meeting http://post.ly/L4vC #

… RT @JimDuncan: *Packed* house at Crozet’s Field School for the discussion on the Yancey Mill light industrial project.

Yancey Business Park

In Crozet by Jim1 Comment

Charlottesville Tomorrow has a good rundown of Thursday’s meeting at the Field School about Yancey Industrial Park : A spirited crowd of Crozet residents was on hand at a public forum Thursday to challenge the notion that western Albemarle is a prime location for expanded industrial development. The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has asked for consideration of a new light industrial business park in the Crozet Master Plan’s first five-year update. … Yancey said many potential business owners have told him his family’s land would be an ideal location for them to locate because of its close access to I-64. – What will be the cost to the County? – What infrastructure will have to be improved? Who will pay for it? – What assurances do the citizens have that this won’t be re-zoned in five years to commercial. – How will this benefit the community? – How will this harm the community?

Blockbuster Movies in Crozet

In Crozet by Jim4 Comments

Blockbuster shut down their stores in Charlottesville … Redbox is in the Harris Teeter … (even though Hollywood is working against Redbox ) I can’t see myself paying (I didn’t before) $4 for a Comcast On-Demand movie now. Thank you to the reader for pointing this out to me. If you ever have a tip or story idea, please let me know !

What will Livenation/Musictoday impact have on Crozet?

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From the HooK : … the Justice Department gave tentative approval today to the merger of Ticketmaster, the widely reviled concert ticket company, and to LiveNation, an entertainment conglomerate whose click-pack-and-ship division is headquartered in the Charlottesville-area community of Crozet and known as MusicToday. Anybody wish to speculate? Or better yet, provide insightful knowledge?

Could Open Space work in Crozet?

In Crozet by Jim7 Comments

While they are still trying to, in the words of a friend, ” trying to find their soul ” – seeking their own personality as it were, it’s a fantastic concept, and is a space I use as frequently as possible.

…For starters, it is going to be a place where I (others, too, but I’m really looking forward to this space) will be able to rent time to work in an aesthetically pleasing, architecturally designed professional workspace populated by fellow creative professionals, many of whom I suspect will either be fellow entrepreneurs or telecommuters who live in Charlottesville and work in other parts of the country or world.

…? Right now, lacking a physical office outside of home, I spend an inordinate amount of time in coffee shops … but coffee shops don’t have quiet spaces to meet with clients as well as talk on the phone or Skype. Take some of the people from coffee shops, provide a cool space with conference rooms, Apple displays, great lighting (and coffee, hopefully) – and the possibilities are pretty exciting.