While the City remained insulated from major shocks in its office market coming out of the pandemic, the first half of 2023 showed signs that change may be coming.
Chickens, funeral home, townhomes on Manassas City Council agenda
A new Manassas City Council tonight will take up some old business.
A total of 28 new townhomes are proposed to be built at the corner of Godwin and Hastings drives, next to George C. Round Elementary School. The development, called Kings Landing, would sit on property owned by Micheal Vanderpool, a prominent land-use and development lawyer in the region.
On December 14, 2020, Vanderpool spent an hour lobbying the City Council on the new development’s perceived plusses, such as providing new housing for established families that would soon move to the city with the nearby expansion Micron microchip manufacturing facility. Micron is slated to bring 1,100 high-paying jobs to the city within the next eight years.
Manassas delays vote on 28 new townhomes near industrial area
Michael Vanderpool, a prominent Manassas lawyer, spent about an hour before the Manassas City Council trying to sell the idea of building 28 new townhomes on 10 acres of his land.
Vanderpool, 70, told city leaders on Tuesday, December 14, that he raised his children in the two-story home that sits on the property at 10201 Godwin Drive, and it would now make a good home for other families.
He’s pushing the City Council to rezone his land from a lower density designation that would require single-family homes to build on the property to a mid-density classification that would allow new townhomes at the corner of Godwin and Hastings drive, next to George C. Round Elementary School.