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The Department of Economic Development is tasked with successfully overseeing redevelopment of targeted properties to their highest and best use. Here you’ll find summaries of recent projects. Additionally, the Department of Community Development provides quarterly reports on development activity and pending land use cases, which you can find HERE.

The Landing at Cannon Branch

Buchanan Partners is the City’s master development partner for The Landing at Cannon Branch (formerly Manassas Gateway). The City-owned 40-acre, mixed-use development will include 274 luxury townhomes, 250,000 square feet of Class-A office space, retail space along a large water feature, and now Tru by Hilton, which opened in the fall of 2020. The anticipated capital investment is $250 million, and the City expects to realize an estimated $30 million in land sales and $3.5 million in annual local tax revenues. Since 2016, the developer has paid the City $8.8 million in land purchase proceeds and interest and invested $9.1 million in site improvements.

Buchanan Partners’ plans for a 20,000-square-foot office-over-retail project have been approved and construction is underway. The estimated $6 million construction cost includes new site improvements and infrastructure to establish interior roadways, pedestrian improvements, public spaces and landscaping to create the sense of place for the overall project. Buchanan has also begun design of the first 80,000-square-foot Class-A office building at The Landing to comply with the development agreement. Once designed and permitted, the building will enable the developer and the City to more easily and quickly attract new office tenants by speeding the time to market for new construction.

Didlake, Inc.

Didlake Inc., a nonprofit and leading employer of people with disabilities, is constructing its new three story headquarters and a support services building in the City of Manassas. The new 44,000 square foot office building will allow Didlake to consolidate its Northern Virginia team members and provide a 15,000 square foot space to continue their work connecting people with disabilities to employment and community engagement opportunities throughout Virginia.

Van Metre Homes

Van Metre Homes is re-developing a 17-acre residential section of Grant Avenue less than half a mile from Historic Downtown Manassas. The project will create more than 230 new residential dwellings ranging from single-family detached homes to multifamily back to back units. The Van Metre project coincides with significant public investment from the City to transform Grant Avenue with a new landscaped median, shared-use path, undergrounding of utilities, and other streetscape enhancements leading to Downtown.

Micron Technology Inc.

Micron announced the largest capital investment in modern Virginia history in 2018. The $3 billion capital investment includes roughly $700 million for the construction of two new, clean rooms and associated physical plants, as well as $2.3 billion in new equipment at the company’s semiconductor manufacturing plant in Manassas. Micron will create at least 1,110 new high-wage jobs and will increase exports from Virginia by more than $1 billion annually.

Micron is the City’s largest employer, tax payer and utility customer and the state’s largest exporter. The company currently employs 1,500 people and contributes to Manassas having the second highest manufacturing weekly wage in Virginia. Construction on Phase I began in 2018 and was completed December 2021, resulting in new tax revenues of $2 million annually on real estate and machinery. The expansion solidifies the company’s future in Manassas and will make the City a worldwide center of excellence for memory and storage solutions primarily focused on the automotive, industrial, and networking markets.

 “For almost two decades Micron and Manassas have been partners in the manufacturing of semiconductors and community development, as the City was with IBM before them. The significant benefits that the company brings Manassas by virtue of their employment and investment help us make advances in public education, infrastructure development and in maintaining a stable tax rate for all of our citizens,” said former Manassas Mayor, Harry J. Parrish II.

 

 

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