This summer, a number of battlefields are in the crosshairs of developers bent on burying them under distribution warehouses and data centers. At places like the Wilderness and Manassas, the threat isn’t theoretical or conceptual – it is urgent and very real.
In fact, the Trust has taken the exceptional step of filing as lead plaintiff in a lawsuit to overturn a massive rezoning that could place millions of square feet of such industrial development at the gateway to the Wilderness Battlefield – centered on the same intersection that, 10 years ago, we successfully convinced Walmart was not the optimal location for its Orange County supercenter.
Please join me and members of our Policy team on Wednesday, June 21 at 1pm ET, for a very special briefing focused on the tangible and time-sensitive steps the Trust is forced to take in the face of these unprecedented and dire threats.
Sign up HERE to participate via Zoom! Once signed up, we will use the email address provided to send you instructions and a link and passcode to join. I hope you can join us. If you cannot tune in live, a recording will be available afterwards.
We will have a Q&A session at the end of the call. If you would like to submit a question in advance, please email RSVP@battlefields.org.
Sincerely, David N. Duncan
President, American Battlefield Trust