YOU WILL WANT TO COME HERE, TO THE LANDMARK YOU WILL LIKE IT, CHARLOTTESVILLE
I’m not making this up. In a recent interview with NBC 29 about the up and coming boutique hotel named “The Landmark,” Developer Lee Danielson told NBC 29 the following things:
You’ll see a friend and say I’ll meet you at the landmark. It will be a landmark for Charlottesville…[and] Charlottesville is about community and our hotel and the boutique concept is about the community. So when you walk in there it’s going to be a meeting place that you want to come to.
Am I being forced to like the hotel? Is Lee a hypnotist. I think so.
Now count slowly back from 50..5…4..3..2..1. Nice, now imagine you are in a special place. You must in the hotel. You will go to The Landmark and enjoy it. You will tell your friends that you want to love it. You will love it.. or else you will feel.. pain.
Ok, it sounds a little over the top and like they got ahead of themselves on how cool this spot is going to be. We’ll find out in July 2009.
I’m looking forward to the rooftop deck; nothing like drinking martinis on a rooftop deck. Did you hear that, developers?
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Is this the 9-story, noise-producing, dust scattering,
abominationhotel that is being built on the downtown mall next to the Box and Oyster House Antiques? I share your enthusiasm about rooftop decks. Nothing like a bottle of wine, friends, the occasional light breeze and the view….ye gods, the view!Is there really enough draw to conistently fill a 5 star hotel on the DM?
i’m sure they’ll be thrilled if the masses take them up on their suggestion and linger around in the lobby all day
Zo Ca Lo’s summertime patio will have virtually no sunlight after this is erected. The entire area around the fountain will become the shady spot. Oh, wait…
Bucket man, loudest flautist, tamborine lady, stoic banj-ohmygod guy, alcoholic hobo dwarf, aggressive one legged panhandler, white t-shirt gang…
I’ll meet you at the landmark!
B’Yo, you forgot the psychic ?
He already knows I will meet him there.
oh darling…”You” doesn’t mean “them”. It means “us.”
Extremely loud gospel preacher, he’s back; and tambourine lady with boom box were sisters, twins, weren’t they?; cult magazine peddler babes; and us, the boring watchers of it all.
Well the new hotel is a least someone who is from here. No out of state chain (a W would have been nice) but locals who know something about the downtown mall
Extremely loud gospel preacher
Uriah. I kind of dig that guy.
cult magazine peddler babes
Zendik Farmers. Another import from california, now in West Virginia. Basically alright folks with the exception of their idol worship of their leader, Wolf (who may now be dead, I think).
Uriah fer mayor!
Can’t wait to find out how the new hotel affects downtown parking. Oh well. I guess that no one from accross town has to visit me, here. Ever.
But a rooftop bar would rock! On a four story building.
Let us pray it contains its own parking
Nope. the news report yesterday mentioned that it’ll be all valet parking. Say bye-bye to all the spots downtown.
Isn’t Landmark Education like some sort of self help cult?
maybe the box and blue light could have a contest to see who can send the most “couples” to the landmark…
Oooh, I just remembered! “Landmark” is EST 2.0!
Freaky deaky.
You all remember EST? “I get that you get that I get what Im saying, but what what I want you to get…”
“rbv”, harhar! plus i read it:
maybe the box and blue light could have a contest to see who can send the most “cougars” to the landmark…
Landmark, a.k.a.Forum, is a lot closer to Amway and Est than to a cult. They hit you up fairly hard to sign up for more classes, but they don’t take over your finances. By “you” I don’t mean “me” but I know several people that have done it, and it seems no stronger than yoga in its hold on them. Well, not as strong as yoga! You can’t take those mats away from them!
Uriah. There better be a exemption in the noise ordinance for him & for Scottish bagpipes! More bagpipes! Cville is missing that boutique accoutrement. Cruck the noise ordinance.
They should have corduroy pillows at the
TrackmarkLandmark Hotel, ’cause corduroy pillows have been making headlines!/really awful pun
*crawls under rock*
Im thinking “Blandmark” for its townie nickname.
Considered “Glandmark”, “Landfark”, and “that big ass thing”.
Landgrab.
I suggest getting a bottle of Herradura, some limes, and doing shots until inspiration strikes and a truly funny name for the monolith results.
Welcome to the Blandmark, where students, tourists, townspeople, the gospel preacher, tamborine lady, bucket man, loudest flautest, alcoholic hobo dwarf, one-legged panhander, banjo guy, and goths meet.
I’m sort of partial to Landgrab.
The Landgrab. Creating parking and traffic nightmares for the community since 2008. Never say we didn’t give you anything!
Is there an architect’s rendering of this floating around the tubes somewhere?
I would like to make some modifications.
@26 This was all I could find in my current state of pseudo-awareness.
that photo looks pretty nice to me. How do the owners of the Omni feel?
Feel? Feel?! Captains of industry do not feel, silly Grape.
Live Arts is getting a roof garden, with real plants. Maybe you can work that in. But I get the idea you are working on the lobby
@5, don’t forget the ultimate Downtown Mall live entertainers
/bet their panties are red, too
i can’t tell you how happy it makes me that the loudest flautist has made it into the vernacular.
Im on it parlie, and will always give you credit. Its genius.
Have you ever tried to have a conversation with that guy? The word “non-linear” comes to mind.
@10 Max
He’s not from here.
@34 Halsey Minor was born right here in Charlottesville- His father Ven’s family has been here for a very long time.
I’m talking about Lee Danielson
we are both right then- it’s a joint project
gud!
caroline: few people on earth know the Downtown Mall better than Lee Danielson.
@39 — Well exactly… because the Downtown Mall as you know and appreciate it today owes more to Lee Danielson than practically anyone else.
Go back to 1975, or imagine you are; get back to me if you think that was a better day.
what, because of the ice park and a really shitty movie theater? I think I would thank some of the amazing restaurants, coffeehouses and the teahouse first.
Fridays After Five had more to do with the current success of the downtown mall than anything else
i think we owe a lot to dirt-encrusted toothless face piercing train rider man with inexplicable fishing pole.
Fishing pole: some guy on the corner used sir up on the retaining wall of the RR tracks and use a pole & bucket to collect alms from the amused students below. Like, 5 year ago I saw him? Maybe train guy is catching fish.
Danielson: the city bludgeoned him into making that movie theater slightly better than it would have been, then he thanked us by stiffing all his contractors, who had to sue him for their payments. And he deceived the city about the cheezee marquee & fake windows on the theater. Yes, he brought a lot to Cville. On the other hand… an ice-rink is a pretty marginal business & has brought a lot of families downtown from the burbs & the movie theater shows one art film usually & theater 4 is pretty good & it is not Carmike & that is probably gud.
I’m really happy about the Landmark!
http://www.21cmuseumhotel.com
Practically a cult, so this is a relevant example. I can’t even begin to explain the art they exhibit (trippy! amazing!) and a lot of the employees have a small, slightly visible tattoo of a red penguin. The restaurant, Proof, is traditional southern meets Tuscan. Louisville is so underrated.
http://www.hotelzaza.com
No detail is ignored. Instead of mints at the check-in, it’s a crystal bowl of hot tamales. Both locations have awesome restaurants with a nighttime scene for locals.
And in general, http://www.tablethotels.com
A chain isn’t necessarily a bad thing! (Except in Charlottesville!) A lot of these boutique hotels are very affordable.
I hate to see a boutique hotel on the mall get poo-pooed. That Louisville hotel is the most amazing overnight experience…
excellent use of gud. keep it up.
i think we may be talking about the same fishing pole man. he’s a reel hoot.
By and large, and not to generalize, while alternatively, not understating the underlying facts, it can be said with some assurance and a minimum of embellishment that stops well short of bloviating narcissistically, that I am in fact largely responsible for the success of the downtown mall.
And I don’t just say that as the owner of the Cat House but as the inventor of the strip mall, without whom there would never have been the commercial desertion that preceded the loss of all hope that was a necessary prerequisite for the populace to allow such a crazy project to go forward to begin with.
Hey you. Enjoyed talking to you greatly..throw me an email if you have the time, or I’ll see you at late night some time soon.
Liz (million dollar legs.. flatterer.)
dear liz,
missed connections is on craigslist, not cvillain
Ouch. Deserved that. Thanks
Shen, let Liz be.
Liz, please continue to find your love again!
Is Liz’s lover out there?
Ha I give up.
i think there was a movie about this.
Several.
i can’t wait until this one gets released.
Dear Thor,
STFU. Liz has a boyfriend and should not be flirting with dudes on here.
And its emmanuel, internet white knight and arbiter what folks should or should no be doing, riding to the rescue.
How, well, patronizing.
/do what you want, Im just saying.
fizzle
Why does snoop dog carry an umbrella?
Fo’ drizzle.
dear thor,
it’s called joking. you may go back to watching “sleepless in seattle” and hugging your pillow now.
Shen and Thor… to the Jello Pit O’ Justice with you. Straight away.
he’s too busy reading Tiger Beat and drinking wine coolers while listening to Sade
OMG Leif Garret is the hottest! Hand me another Bartles and James.
@64- his name is the loudest flautist.
If you are referring to Robert, he is in Iowa. He’s not sure if he will be returning, since the wonderful Noise Ordinance is in effect. I should email him a link here and let him speak for himself.
pwned!
He may be in Iowa, but I can still hear him playing.
Truly the loudest.
nanigans using gamer leet-speak!
Hawt!
中国是白热化!
Landmark’s developer and CNET founder, Halsey Minor is selling his Albemarle estate farm. When in c-ville he plans to stay in his new downtown apartment located on the top floor of the Landmark. actually it is the top floor, the entire top floor. Money’s nice.
You know, whatever the Landmark turns out to be, it’s better than a vacant “Boxer Learning” building swarming with panhandlers and teenaged burnouts.
may future vacant bank bldgs be so lucky
Speaking of Uriah, there’s a lot more to the man than loud gospel preaching. His full name is Uriah J. Fields and this is from Amazon’s review of his book “Inside the Mongomery Bus Boycott”: “URIAH J. FIELDS was a founder and the original secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association that directed the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the pastor of the Bell Street Baptist Church that was bombed by rabid segregationists who opposed bus desegregation. He served as the director of a human development center in California for thirty years. He was a Chaplain’s Assistant in the Army during the Korean War.”
um, what??? Where did uriah come from – thinking uriah heep…
@11, who the heck is uriah??? If it’s that public preacher at FAF, omg, I can’t walk fast enough to get away from those freaky people….
Uriah: @11
I think it unfair to comment disparagingly about Lee (Big D )- when his only mission in life is to make people happy.
@76 Are you positive they are one in the same person? Because I’d love to see that interview on Cvillain, seriously….part of the Mallstars series? Please?
Numero 81: Yes, I am sure.
bleh, can’t stand them mall preachers…
movin on my nightly takeover quest…
my takeover is complete – jes!!!