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

DATE: THURSDAY, August 4, 1994                   TAG: 9408040085
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                                 LENGTH: Short

MAN STAKES CLAIM TO BEACH AND BOARDWALK

A land speculator who has fought the city numerous times over property has staked an ambitious new claim: nearly all of the city's resort beach and boardwalk.

Edwin B. Lindsley Jr., who made his name and fortune by buying defunct companies with long-forgotten land titles, also is hinting he may try to block the city's $92 million Oceanfront plan if officials ignore him.

Lindsley, 70, made his claim in a May 31 letter to U.S. Sen. Charles S. Robb, D-Va., and to the Army Corps of Engineers, which would build a new hurricane-protection seawall and boardwalk and double the width of the beach as part of the 21/2-year Oceanfront project.

So far, Lindsley has not filed a lawsuit over the land, but he may eventually, said a title examiner who works with him. Lindsley himself declined to comment on the claim.

- Associated Press

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