Riverbend Development intends to use Charlottesville’s new development code to bring as many as 239 apartments to an area of the city that street signs refer to as Downtown Belmont.
In late September, the company filed plans with Neighborhood Development Services to demolish a former church at 914 Monticello Rd. and replace it with a 33-unit apartment building.
That would be the second phase of a project Riverbend is developing in the neighborhood. The first will be across Carlton Avenue and will either be 130 or 206 units depending on how Riverbend moves forward…