(EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a series celebrating the people, places and history of Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall as it turns 50 this year.)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — Few people have watched Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall evolve quite like Brian Federico.
As supervisor of operations at the Ting Pavilion, Federico has spent more than two decades working at some of the city’s best-known entertainment venues. His career has taken him from the former Charlottesville Ice Park to The Paramount Theater, The Jefferson Theater, The Southern Café and Music Hall and now the Ting Pavilion, giving him a front-row seat to the mall’s transformation…