Stop the Prince William Digital Gateway and Protect Manassas Battlefield

UPDATE: On August 7, 2025, a ruling by Circuit Court Judge Kimberly Irving overturned the rezoning! Read more about the decision and its impact here.

In December 2023, Prince William County’s board of supervisors approved plans for the massive Digital Gateway complex, a data center campus in the narrow corridor between the western border of Manassas National Battlefield Park and Conway Robinson State Forest. After a 27-hour meeting that included public comment from hundreds of area residents, the final vote in favor was 4-3, with one abstention.

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But we weren’t done fighting. On January 12, 2024, the American Battlefield Trust joined nine local residents in filing a lawsuit that asks the Circuit Court for Prince William County to overturn the trio of rezonings granted in violation of Virginia Code by the lame duck County Board of Supervisors. A half-dozen other leading conservation organizations weighed in on the case through a "friend of the court" filing. Although, a circuit court judge initially ruled in favor of the developers demurrer filing, we have elevated the matter to the Virginia Court of Appeals.

On August 7, 2025, Circuit Court Judge Kimberly Irving ruled in favor of the Oak Valley Homeowners Association, which had filed its own lawsuit. This overturned the rezoning as having been approved with insufficient review of the proposed development, given inadequate public notice and included unlawful waivers of key analyses.

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