Plans for a new building that will replace the Main Street Arena and Escafé on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall are continuing to be developed and refined.
On Tuesday evening, the city’s Board of Architectural Review held a preliminary discussion on the massing and siting of a proposed seven-story, mixed-use project called the Charlottesville Technology Center. The 160,000-square-foot building would include office space, as well as coworking, lab and retail uses.
“The whole building is about creating an environment where you actually encourage people to overlap, interact, cross paths,” said Architect Fred Wolf, who is working on the project with Taliaferro Junction LLC and Jaffray Woodriff, the developer and owner of the property. The Main Street Arena building was purchased earlier this year from Mark Brown for $5.7 million.
