Charlottesville Downtown Transit Center Achieves LEED Gold!!!!!!!!

Opened in the Spring of 2007, the Downtown Transit Center combines the functions of a Visitor’s Center and a Transit Center for bus tours of the Charlottesville area, including nearby Monticello. Located at the entrance to the Downtown Mall, adjacent to City Hall and an expanded outdoor amphitheater, it serves as the gateway to mall events and the transportation hub for visitors to the region. The building is designed to appear as an outdoor pavilion, with a large open stair connecting the two floors that mimics the stair in the adjacent plaza. A large glass façade allows generous amounts of daylight to enter the spaces. The building was designed with the principles of sustainable design in mind and includes local materials, low VOC-emitting materials, ground-coupled heat pumps, energy recovery on the exhaust air stream and daylighting controls.

Project was awarded LEED Gold certification.