Amazon Data Services acquires 91 acres in Manassas for $218m
Amazon (AMZN) is fulfilling its promise to spend billions of dollars on data centers in Virginia and has developed.
As per Business Journal, the tech and eCommerce giant billed around $218 million for 91 acres approved for data center development after Amazon bought 140 acres for data centers in Manassa for $152 million in January.
An entity run by Mike Garcia of Mike Garcia Construction sold the property at 14237 and 14209 Dumfries Road to Amazon. In March, officials approved a rezoning amendment to enable the entire site to become a data center. According to the business journals, it’s also in the country’s data center, the Opportunity Zone overlay District.
The property was rezoned to a Planned Business District (PBD) in 2019 to develop as an industrial/business park with a range of related uses. It is located west of Dale City, close to Independent Hill.
Plaza Realty Management is also planning a one-million-square-foot data center development called the Potomac Technology Park along Dumfries Road. Amazon has other major data center projects in the area, and other premier tech organizations are expanding their data center portfolios there. Also, Microsoft recently bought 124 acres in Gainesville for $465.5 million.
