Overview
- QTS filed a notice July 2 withdrawing its appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court and formally terminated the PW Digital Gateway project, leaving lower‑court voiding of the rezonings in place.
- A Prince William circuit judge had voided the rezoning because public notices for the county’s long hearing failed to meet legal notice rules, a decision the Virginia Court of Appeals unanimously upheld on March 31.
- The proposal would have covered roughly 2,000–2,100 acres and about 22 million square feet of data centers, with QTS and co‑developer Compass touting tens of billions in investment and thousands of long‑term jobs.
- Prince William County and Compass stopped defending appeals earlier this year after the appeals court ruling and the county spent nearly $2 million on legal defense before withdrawing its challenge.
- Local homeowners and preservation groups welcomed the end of the project and are pressing county officials, landowners, and conservation groups to develop long‑term land‑management plans for the Pageland Lane/Manassas battlefield corridor.