A data center will replace a brick and stone manufacturing plant dating back nearly 60 years.
Manassas' first data center will replace the Glen-Gery brickyard at 9905 Godwin Drive. The plant opened in 1964 and is being demolished to make way for a 185,000-square-foot server farm.
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A second community meeting where information about the Workhouse Arts Campus Master Plan is coming up.
Officials are encouraging people to attend and share their opinion on several development ideas. The event takes place on February 15, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the McGuireWoods Gallery at the Workhouse Arts Center, 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton.
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To celebrate, the city has planned a yearlong string of events and festivities, including a 150th birthday party, a historic walking tour, burying a time capsule, and workshops and speaker events.
Most notably, the birthday celebration will include a firework show on April 1, 2023, at Dean Park. The Boys and Girls Club at Dean Park will be reserved to support the event, and city staff will help with the festivities.
Other anniversary initiatives include “Telling Your Story,” a chance for Manassas residents to either submit a written or recorded recall of their favorite memories of Manassas. The city will produce a video to capture the stories.
The 150th-anniversary time capsule buried later this year is collecting submissions until March 1. Those selected can place their items in the capsule during the 150th birthday party.
You can submit your item for consideration on the city website. The contest is limited to Manassas residents and is open to all ages. The city suggests the items be small, around the size of a golf ball or a flat sheet of paper/ photograph.
On December 18, the children of the Linden family let out Samus, an 11 year-old, female German Shepherd, and forgot to put on the electric fence collar. The family noticed she had gone missing and assumed she would return home.
That night, a bystander found Samus and shortly she was brought over to the Prince William County Animal Shelter. The shelter staff kept Samus overnight, and in the morning called the family after scanning for a microchip. On the afternoon of December 19, she was picked up and brought home.
At the time of pickup, shelter staff informed Sarah Linden that Samus had been given several treatments as recommended by the shelter’s veterinarians, including a vaccine for canine distemper, canine bordetella and deworming treatment. Sarah found this concerning and questioned whether or not it was appropriate to administer the vaccine prior to contacting the family via microchip.
On December 31st, Samus started showing symptoms of a potential illness, including a cough. Within 24 hours, the family discovered Samus had passed away.
The sudden loss of Samus sparked an investigation into Samus’ death. The family called the shelter to request information on their vaccine policy and were told it would require an FOIA request to obtain it.
There is no evidence to suggest the shelter is directly responsible for the death of Samus. However, the situation has raised questions on best practices administered by the county’s animal shelter.
“The vaccines administered at our shelter are recommended by our trained veterinarian staff and not known to have significant adverse reactions. While we understand not all animals are the same, the shelter would never administer a vaccine to an animal that is known to cause serious illness or death,” said Prince William police 1st Sgt. Jonathan Perok.
In 2022, a $16.7 million dollar project replaced the old animal shelter on Bristow Road, upgrading the 6,646 square feet facility to a 25,000-square-foot facility. The year prior, the shelter administered 2,049 adoptions, reunited 531 animals with their owners, and included 150 volunteers.
Updated — Volunteer Prince William received some help from a generous donor who helped store toys for individuals and families in need for its Un-Trim-a-Tree charity gift drive.
In 2022, the non-profit vowed to help give more than 3,700 children toys. Volunteer Prince William decided to give toys to the children, including some 1,520 children that would not have otherwise received a gift through another charitable organization.
Additionally, the Volunteer Prince William provided 510 gift baskets to seniors through the Senior Basket Program from Prince William County, Manassas City, and Manassas Park.
Untrim a Tree and the Senior Basket Program is funded by donors. However, in December 2022, the non-profit struggled to find a drop-off location or donation center big enough to house the donated toys.
Officials in Manassas Park stepped in to help and put Volunteer Prince William in touch with HASTA Capital, the owners of six empty units located in Manassas Park that could house the donations until Volunteer Prince William could distribute the toys.
HASTA Capital donated four buildings to house the donation center, providing easy drop-off for toy and senior basket donations while giving volunteers control over their operating hours.
“HASTA came for us so we could come for our children and seniors. We were in dire need of a large space with easy drop-off and picked-up, and HASTA donated multiple units to store thousands of toys and senior baskets,” stated longtime Volunteer Prince William volunteer Stacy Seiberling.
Once inside, Volunteer Prince William sorted toys, did quality control, and added clothes or toys depending on the children’s needs. The organization prides itself on assisting the area’s needy children and families.
Each family the organization helped or “adopted” was given a set of toys for the holidays.
The Rose gaming resort in Dumfries is as tall as it will get.
Local leaders were abuzz on Thursday, January 5, 2023, when they attended a topping-off ceremony for the first of two towers at the seven-story resort located off Interstate 95. When finished later this year, it will include about 120 hotel rooms, a restaurant, and video slot machines.
The project is being built in phases and will include a total of 320 hotel rooms and a conference center when complete. The project sits on land once used for the Potomac Landfill, a construction debris site.
Ryan Jordan, Senior Vice President of Real Estate Development, Ken Hoffman, Vice President, Design and Construction Leader, and Chad Bartelson, Senior Director of Facilities Construction, all of Churchhill Downs Inc., attended the ceremony, representing the owners of the coming facility.
Local leaders from Dumfries, Mayor Derrick Wood and Councilman Shaun Peet, and from the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, Ann Wheeler and Andrea Bailey, also attended.
Organizers erected a large tent on the construction site for dignitaries to make speeches. Inside, they set up tables for over 100 Yates construction workers and rows of chairs for other community visitors. A separate tent had food for the catered lunches.
The Rose Gaming Resort, a $400 million investment project between several stakeholders, intends to bring significant numbers to the Town of Dumfries.
This facility will generate nearly $17 million in state tax revenue and $11 million in local tax revenue. The Rose is expected to create roughly 500 new jobs in the community.
“We look forward to seeing this rose blossom over the coming months,” said Mayor Derrick Wood.
There will be an opportunity within the facility for Virginia businesses and retail establishments to partner with the Rose at their new location, expected to open on September 1, 2023. The company did not divulge the name of the companies with which it seeks to partner.
The Rose intends to give back to the community through Rosie’s Gives Back program. This program has provided over 2.6 million dollars in monetary and in-kind contributions to the communities in they operate and has logged over 2,500 community service hours.
The Rose will replace Rosies, a smaller gaming spot that opened in January 2021. Officials broke ground for The Rose one year ago.
The performance was held December 4, 2022 at Gar-Field High School and included 57 youth performers, as well as participation from four staff members, Gar-Field High School’s Student theater techs and the support of the WDC Board Members.
In Clara’s Dream, we join the Stahlbuam family on Christmas Eve during their holiday party where Clara receives a Nutcracker as her most beloved gift. When Clara goes to sleep that evening, she is visited by dream fairies. The audience gets to follow her as the Nutcracker comes to life, battles the evil Mouse King, and escorts her to a world of dancing sweets.
During the show, the Woodbridge Dance Company Board of Directors handed out the 2022 Supporter or the Arts award, an award given to an individual who has shown not only support to the dance troop, but also to the arts community as a whole.
The award was given to Debby Gilliam, who began as a parent of a WDC dancer in 2007, and over the years has been a volunteer, board member, board chair, and is now a lifelong supporter of WDC.
She continues to attend performances and advocates for arts awareness and support on a local level, supporting dancers as they train and grow into professional dancers.
In other news, a recent addition to the WDC team includes Margaux Lieser, a dance choreographer who received training in Chicago at the Joel Hall Dance Center, Visceral Dance Center and Whitney young Magnet High school in jazz, contemporary, modern, ballet and hip-hop. Margaux will create for a new work, “Intrusions”, with members of the WDC Youth Performance Group with the goal is to fuse together the styles she has learned over the years in her choreography, which has a strong emphasis on rhythm and musicality.
Woodbridge Dance Company’s mission is to give young dancers the experience to perform and give talented choreographers the means to create artistically.
Real Estate developers The Audeo Partners are moving forward with a new town center in Dumfries.
The mixed-use center will sit on Main Street, near the town hall.
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The Prince William County Planning Commission voted in favor of rezoning the Kline Property, at the corner of Prince William Parkway and Liberia Avenue near Manassas, for the development of a multi-use project, including the development of 240 townhomes, a drive-in pharmacy, fast food restaurant, and storage facility.
Manassas and Prince Wiliam County are negotiating with developer Stanley Martin to relocate the Greater Manassas Baseball League, adding multiple ballfields on the property. More 20 more acres of the property will be deeded to the county for civic use, including a new school.
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