For years, long-term plans for U.S. 29 in both Albemarle County and Charlottesville have called for commercial uses to be replaced with places for people to live.
There has been progress toward implementation of that idea such as at Stonefield which has seen hundreds of units built in the last dozen years. There are several plans for new construction of hundreds of units at various stages of development.
To that number we can now add 191 new units now that potential new owners of the Holiday Inn on Emmet Street have filed plans to convert the structure into an apartment building to be called The Palms…