May 13, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Developer Highland Properties Manassas LLC has withdrawn its proposal to develop Quantico Ridge, a roughly 160-acre data center project in Prince William County, Virginia. The company also pulled its application to rezone land parcels at 14854 and 14900 Dumfries Road for industrial use. The proposal had been scheduled for consideration at yesterday’s meeting of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
Highland Properties Manassas did not disclose a reason for withdrawing the proposal. DCD has reached out to both the company and its manager, Madison Property Management, for further comment. Limited information has been released about the planned data center project. According to a staff report tied to the rezoning application, the site could “theoretically yield 1.6 to nearly 4 million square feet (148,645 sqm to 371,612 sqm) of industrial development.” However, the project’s exact capacity and layout have not been revealed.
“This data center plan includes a carveout for a one-million-square-foot data center campus, equivalent to five Walmart Supercenters, directly adjacent to Prince William Forest Park. Data centers do not belong near our national parks,” said the Prince William Conservation Alliance in a May 8 press release.
It remains uncertain whether Highland Properties Manassas plans to resubmit the proposal. Prince William County is located in Northern Virginia, the region with the world’s largest concentration of data centers. The county is also involved in an ongoing legal dispute with data center developer QTS, which is contesting a Virginia Supreme Court decision that upheld a ruling invalidating the zoning approval for its proposed 2,100-acre data center campus, known as PW Digital Gateway.
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