House Panel Votes Not to Permit Mall at Manassas Park
A House subcommittee today approved a bill to take lands from a private developer planning to build a shopping center adjacent to a Civil War battlefield.
The National Parks and Public Lands panel of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee acted to take control of a 542-acre tract bordering the Manassas National Battlefield Park where two Civil War battles were fought.
A developer plans a shopping, residential and office complex for the property that historians say would destroy the still-rustic sanctity of the 4,600-acre battlefield park in Prince William County, Va., 27 miles west of Washington.
The bill would also pay the developer for the seized land, close U.S. 29 and state route 234, which now run through the park, and pay up to $30 million for the construction of new roads around the site.
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