
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 17, 1990                   TAG: 9005170336
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

$34 MILLION BUYS BATTLEFIELD SITE

The U.S. government has agreed to pay two Northern Virginia developers $34.1 million for a 150-acre tract that was condemned by the government 18 months ago in a move to save the Manassas Civil War battlefield from encroaching development.

Under the negotiated settlement, the government will pay William Center Limited Partnership and NVHomes Limited Partnership for the land that the two groups owned jointly near the Manassas Battlefield Park.

Still to be decided is the price to be paid to developer John T. "Til" Hazel Jr. and his partner, Milton V. Peterson, for more than 350 acres that was condemned at the same time.

Plans for a regional shopping mall plus more than 500 houses on the tracts off Interstate 66 near Manassas about 30 miles west of Washington foundered after preservationists began a nationwide campaign to "Save the Battlefield." Two battles were fought in the area, in 1861 and 1862, both of them won by forces of the Confederacy.

by CNB