Open up Google Maps, the satellite view, and navigate over to the south side of the Dulles Greenway at its interchange with Belmont Ridge Road.
Have a look around. There are the main offices of Loudoun County Public Schools fronting the Greenway, Clyde’s Willow Creek Farm restaurant, the 3,000-plus-home Broadlands and the Broadlands Village Shopping Center, two grocery stores, the 500-unit Preserve at Goose Creek, numerous playgrounds, parks and trails. It’s typical suburbia.
What don’t you see? Data centers. Because they make little sense in this location, surrounded by residential on three sides, just like they make no sense immediately adjacent to the Ashburn Metro station. But there they are. And here they come.
Pour one out for Hyde Park. The application to rezone 57 acres from office to residential for nearly 800 units — 124 affordable — had been through Loudoun’s planning ringer until, in January, the proposal was formally withdrawn.
And, what do you know? Data center…
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