Hawes Spencer, The Hook (3 May 2011)
The Crossings, an apartment complex designed to prevent the phenomenon of “Million Dollar Murray,” has begun its rise at the corner of Preston Avenue and Fourth Street…
Charlottesville’s City Council took note and in 2009 approved a controversial zoning law change to enable the so-called Crossings at Fourth and Preston to be developed on the site of a former mini-mall, later owned by the Region Ten Community Services Board.
The single room occupancy, or SRO, complex will consist of 60 studio apartments with half of them reserved for the homeless.
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