BlackChamber Pays $190M for Data Center Campus Site

The BlackChamber Group, of Washington, D.C., has purchased 65 acres in Northern Virginia that will serve as a data center development site, according to the Washington Business Journal. The Pruitt Corp. sold the asset for $190 million. Senior Director Jamie Leachman and Director Drake Greer of JLL represented the buyer.

Located at 10230-10251 Harry J. Parrish Blvd. in Manassas, the property is a five-building, 502,000-square-foot warehouse campus that’s about 98 percent occupied. It’s near Prince William Parkway and the Manassas Regional Airport while being also 8 miles from a six-building industrial portfolio that recently traded.

The property is a by-right data center development site of up to 2 million square feet within Prince William County’s Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District. JLL listed it for sale on behalf of Pruitt in November.

JLL declined to comment on the deal and BlackChamber could not be reached for comment.

Going to the country

Last year, according to a February report from Newmark, “Northern Virginia persisted as the leading region for development site purchases by hyperscalers capturing roughly one-third of the total volume and cementing its position as the nation’s most critical data center hub.”

Notably, however, there seems to be a growing level of data center development in Virginia’s more rural areas, well away from the usual NoVa locations near Washington, D.C.

In December, AVAIO Digital Partners unveiled plans to build a $3 billion data center campus on 452 acres in Appomattox County, Va., about 90 miles west of Richmond.

In November, TECfusions landed $300 million in funding to expand its 37.5 megawatt data center campus in Clarksville, Va., which is barely 5 miles from the North Carolina line and closer to Raleigh, N.C., than to Richmond, Va.