[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Proposed development on highway to Ft. Belvoir (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

SBCA Goes Back To The Future -- Again
Could a ferris wheel and cotton candy come to Kings Crossing?

By Chuck Hagee
Mount Vernon Gazette (VA)
May 14, 2008

Yogi Berra would have felt right at home Monday night at the Spring Bank 
Community Association meeting -- it was definitely "deja vu all over 
again." Another potential developer presenting another set of plans 
calling for retail, office, and, yes, hotel space immediately adjacent 
to the King Crossing site.

This time the driving force, as outlined by Attorney Gifford R. 
Hampshire, representing land owner Penn Daw Properties, was all the 
supposed contractors and other firms coming to the Route 1 corridor as a 
result of the Base Realignment & Closure Report's (BRAC) impact on Fort 
Belvoir. "This development can serve as the stimulus to entice other 
development along the corridor," Hampshire told the SBCA members 
assembled at Groveton Baptist Church.

The 4.39 acre site owned by the Fenton family is composed of 11 parcels 
with the potential of a twelfth parcel in the works. That final parcel 
is presenting in foreclosure, according to Hampshire.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=314893&paper=69&cat=104

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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