Charlottesville Park Named After Tony Bennett’s Five Pillars

Tony Bennett‘s Five Pillars — humility, passion, unity, servanthood, and thankfulness — are being used as the basis for a new development in Charlottesville, according to The Daily Progress. The park — Southwood Mobile Home Park — is being redeveloped by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and will break ground soon.

Per the article, residents agreed to name the park after Bennett’s program.

“They felt like his values, the five pillars, were very consistent with their values,” Dan Rosensweig, president of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, told the paper. “So I invited Tony to join them for one of their planning sessions and it was just really great.”

“That’s awesome,” Bennett told the paper after a game recently. “Those aren’t my pillars, they’re just our program, but they suggest the right kind of stuff.”

Bennett’s Cavaliers are currently 11-2 overall and ranked No. 8 in the national poll. Virginia, who hasn’t lost a conference game yet, will play rival Virginia Tech on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. on the ACC Network.

The Five Pillars that Bennett teaches were carried over from his father, Dick Bennett, who coached Green Bay (1985-95), Wisconsin (1996-01) and Washington State (2003-06). After his father retired, Tony took over the Washington State program until 2009 when he took the Virginia job.