From the city…
Monthly Day for Sale – Mall Brick Sales at 12:00pm – 3pm
Individual Souvenir Brick will be available for sale at the City’s Monthly Fixed Price Warehouse Outlet sale (WHO) which is held the first working Friday of every month. The next WHO sale is Friday March 6th 2009, from noon to 3:00 p.m., at the City Yard Warehouse located at 325 4th St NW. Souvenir Bricks are priced at $5.00 per brick with a limit of 10 brick per person.
The City will be selling some unclean brick. This brick will be sold by the square foot. An Invitation for Bid (IFB) will be sent to all people who have expressed interest in purchasing unclean brick so that they may have the opportunity to place a bid. The IFB will also be posted on the City’s website at www.charlottesville.org/purchasing, and it may be accessed on the bids and proposals page when the IFB is issued . The City anticipates beginning sale of the unclean brick by mid March. To be added to the bidder’s list please e-mail your contact information including: name, address, phone, fax and e-mail to purchasing@charlottesville.org or you may contact Shannon Morris at the City Warehouse at (434) 970-3865 or morrish@charlottesville.org.
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Wow…
Seriously, a limit of 10 $5 bricks per person. They expecting a run on bricks? What kind of unclean bricks? what are they made of pigs blood? Will this upset the jewish and/or muslim communities?
@2 – in all seriousness, I believe they are referring to bricks that haven’t had the leftover grout/mortar/whatever the hell that stuff is removed, nor were they washed or sandblasted. Some folks like to use “unclean” bricks for more authentic looking renovations.
Perhaps the unclean bricks have chewing gum, dog poop, and/or bum piss on them.
@4. HA HA HA… perhaps they aren’t really bricks at all…
WTF THEY PUT THOSE STUPID SILHOUETTE PEOPLE BACK UP
still…… do they think we will all be building an “old downtown mall” commemorative stoop at our homes? perhaps a memorial 10 brick pile in the corner of the backyard….. you can’t do too much with 10 oversized bricks. what are they possibly thinking?
perma4:
The uncleanest ones, in my opinion, were outside the Bizou, under the tables. No slam against the Bizou, which is a favorite of mine, but jeez those bricks were almost black.
Ok, we have to do something to the silhouette people. We have to.
What do we do, make them wear bad outfits, introduce them to Mr.Blowtorch, paint them in different colors for the holidays, Scowly tattoos?
Toilet paper wrap-em!
@12 – the landmark doesn’t need bricks… it needs love.
Let’s put Goodwill Prom dresses on the metal 2-D people.
let’s all buy a bunch of bricks, then sneak in late at night and replace the new bricks with them…
Ahahaha… oy I am all over that idea, like a rash on a baby’s arse.
With the tabs on the new bricks it won’t be that easy
It is still a great idea
What a brilliant have! Suckaahs! Bend over, people! Bricks are generally less than .50 each. Fifteen years ago, you could buy a whole block of 500 bricks for about $130. I can’t imagine that they’d have gone up that much; they’re prolly still less than $200.
It might be different if these were OLD bricks, but they’re not.
For that kind of have, the buyer ought to at least get kissed!