Editing Crozet, Virginia (section)

== Economy ==
Historically, Crozet was strategically important as a depot and transportation hub for the local apple and peach growing industries.<ref>http://lodgeatoldtrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Lodger-17-Web-Edition.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crozetgazette.com/2014/04/secrets-of-the-blue-ridge-virginia-mountain-peaches/|title=Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Virginia Mountain Peaches {{!}} Crozet Gazette|website=www.crozetgazette.com|date=April 4, 2014 |access-date=2016-05-09}}</ref> [[Morton Frozen Foods]] had its flagship manufacturing plant in Crozet from August 1, 1953, until the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crozetgazette.com/2015/10/a-new-life-for-morton-frozen-foods/|title=A New Life for Morton Frozen Foods? {{!}} Crozet Gazette|website=www.crozetgazette.com|date=October 2, 2015 |access-date=2016-05-08}}</ref>  In 2000, the plant was closed by [[food packaging]] company [[ConAgra Foods]], which owned the brand, laying off more than 600 employees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=20000528&id=WwUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zQgGAAAAIBAJ&pg=5006,7425564&hl=en|title=The Free Lance-Star - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=2016-05-08}}</ref>  As of 2016, [[Musictoday]], acquired in 2014 by San Francisco-based {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20010404054220/http://deliveryagent.com/ Delivery Agent Inc.]}}, an interactive entertainment-commerce firm, operates out of the building,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cvillenews.com/2003/10/22/musictoday-expanding-to-conagra-plant/|title=MusicToday Expanding to ConAgra Plant « cvillenews.com|last=Jaquith|first=Waldo|access-date=2016-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/san-francisco-firm-buys-crozet-based-musictoday-new-jobs-announced/article_40795204-1d10-11e4-904f-0017a43b2370.html|title=San Francisco firm buys Crozet-based Musictoday; 50 new jobs announced|website=The Daily Progress|date=August 5, 2014 |access-date=2016-05-08}}</ref> as does [[Starr Hill Brewery]], which moved from Charlottesville in 2006.

From 1990 to 2005, Crozet saw increasing [[housing development]], in part because of nearby Charlottesville's reputation as a desirable location,<ref>"[https://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2004-03-29-best-cities-main_x.htm 'Mr. Jefferson would be proud': Charlottesville is No. 1]". ''[[USA Today]]''. March 29, 2004.</ref> but also because Albemarle County named Crozet as a designated growth area. Some 95% of the County remains designated as rural.

In 2001, the Albemarle County [[Board of Supervisors]] approved a framework dubbed the "Crozet Master Plan",<ref>[http://www.albemarle.org/department.asp?department=planning&relpage=2433 Master Plan Narrative, County of Albemarle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614093612/http://www.albemarle.org/department.asp?department=planning&relpage=2433 |date=June 14, 2006 }}.  Accessed on June 25, 2006.</ref> developed by a local architect and regional planning firm,<sup>[http://www.citiesthatwork.com/][http://www.nbwla.com/]</sup> to regulate development patterns and provide a [[Forum (legal)|public forum]] for discussing the topic. The Master Plan allows the population of Crozet, then around 3,000, to quadruple to more than 12,000 by the 2020s. These numbers alarmed some long-time residents who are accustomed to the [[rural]] tranquility of Crozet; more than a thousand people petitioned the county to reduce the number of planned households. In 2006, a plan was approved to redevelop the old Barnes Lumber property, which encompasses much of the downtown section.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Puccio|first1=Lindsay|date=1 March 2006|title=Residents Upset About Crozet Development|url=http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/2391641.html|access-date=18 April 2018|website=Newsplex.com|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2007, the population passed 7,000.

Around 2017, Piedmont Place, a complex of luxury apartments and various restaurants and shops, was built in downtown Crozet.