Amazon has acquired more land in Manassas, Virginia.
Citing Prince William County property records, BizJournal reports Amazon Data Services Inc. bought the 91-acre assemblage at 14237 and 14209 Dumfries Road from Parsons Business Park LLC in late April for $218 million.
The publication notes the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approved a rezoning proffer amendment in March that tees up the entire site for data center development. The site also sits within the county’s Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District.
The property was rezoned to Planned Business District (PBD) in 2019 to develop as an industrial/business park with a variety of related uses
The site is located west of Dale City, close to Independent Hill.
Plaza Realty Management is also planning a 1 million sq ft data center development known as the Potomac Technology Park along Dumfries Road.
Recently, Prince William County's planning commission unanimously recommended the denial of an application to turn Colchester Industrial Park on Dumfries Road into a data center complex known as the Mid-County Industrial Park.
In other recent Amazon news:
– Amazon recently filed for a proposed zoning text and map amendment to create an SDC-O Special Data Center Overlay District in Salem Township, Pennsylvania, where it recently bought a nuclear-powered data center.
The overlay district would allow a controlled development of a data center campus through a master plan process.
– Amazon has broken ground on a data center in Mississippi.
