If a time traveler from 2015 were to suddenly end up at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road in Charlottesville in 2025, they’d be amazed at the number of transformations. Gone are several buildings including the Cavalier Inn.
After years of property acquisition by the University of Virginia Foundation and planning from the UVA Office of the Architect, there’s one new completed building for the School of Data Science and plenty more coming out of the ground at what’s known as the Emmet Ivy corridor. The Board of Visitors adopted a master plan in 2016.
John Nau, the chair of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, made this remark at the opening of the September 11 meeting…