Gardner Property Data Center Campus (McGraws Corner Drive and Nolan Road, Gainesville, Prince William County)

Name: Gardner Property Data Center Campus (McGraws Corner Drive and Nolan Road, Gainesville, Prince William County)
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United States · 1 project · Last reported 2026-09-24

Summary

Prince William County's Pending Planning Cases layer records that on 24 September 2026 the planning office transmitted special use permit application SUP2027-00008, Gardner Property, to allow data centers and an electric substation outside the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District, with waivers including building height up to 66 feet (81 feet with rooftop equipment and screening) and a floor area ratio up to 0.56. It accompanies rezoning REZ2023-00018 (transmitted 22 March 2023) of about 82.74 acres from A-1 and B-1 to PBD with an M-2 land bay for data center buildings and an electric substation; both cases are Under Review. This records a proposed data center development identified by a dated county record; neither case has been decided, so no consent, site plan, permit or physical work is asserted. The county campus layer's 2,017,100 sq ft planned floor area is a planning figure, not capacity. evidence

Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) · published 2026-10-26

Location

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Campus reference; individual project footprints are not mapped.

Projects (1)

Gardner Property — proposed data center buildings and electric substation (SUP2027-00008 / REZ2023-00018)

Announced last observed as of 2026-09-24 · Project announcement

Of 71 county parcels intersecting the bounding box of the Gardner Property case polygon, thirteen lie wholly inside it (GPINs 7397-24-2642, 7397-24-5358, 7397-24-7793, 7397-24-9409, 7397-25-6482, 7397-33-5378, 7397-34-3968, 7397-34-7736, 7397-34-9413, 7397-34-9643, 7397-35-2804, 7397-44-0054 and 7397-44-2126; 76.24 geodesic acres), and 6.34 acres fall in the county's unparcelled placeholder 9999-99-9999. The county use description of 7397-34-3968 is 'DataCenter - Vacant Land'; the others are vacant land or vacant with incidental structures. evidence

Prince William County, Virginia (Real Estate Assessments cadastral GIS) · publication date not stated

The layer 'represents the active cases in process in the Planning Office', including rezonings, special use permits, comprehensive plan amendments and proffer amendments; the cases 'have been accepted by the Current Planning Division and are in process to be heard by the Planning Commission and/or the Board of County Supervisors', and remain on the layer until approval or denial by the Board or withdrawal by the applicant. Date fields are referenced to Eastern time with daylight saving. evidence

Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) · publication date not stated

All 134 active planning cases. Data-centre cases transmitted on or after 2 August 2026 are Madera Farm SUP2027-00002 (19 August, Pending) and Gardner Property SUP2027-00008 (24 September, Under Review). Other pending data-centre cases (for example Six Towers Industrial Park, Manassas Corporate Center 8, Atlantic Funding Development, Southgate South, Project Industry and University Business Park) were transmitted before the window. The three Digital Gateway rezonings are listed as void under the 29 July 2026 Court of Appeals order. evidence

Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) · published 2026-10-26

The county campus layer contains 78 data-center campus polygons. It lists Gardner Property (REZ2023-00018) as a Pending campus in a proposed PBD district, 82.57 GIS acres and 2,017,100 sq ft planned gross floor area, outside the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay (DCOOD 'No'), with a polygon identical to the SUP2027-00008 case polygon. The nearest other campus polygons are Amazon Village Place Technology Park (REZ2020-00024, Planned; 18 m from the Gardner polygon) and NTT Grove at Gainesville (REZ2021-00001, Planned; 334 m). Madera Farm has no campus polygon; the nearest campus polygon to it, Stack Infrastructure NVA02 YFT, is 6.3 km away. evidence

Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) · publication date not stated

Source and location review

Status source

Prince William County Pending Planning Cases: Gardner Property (SUP2027-00008 and concurrent rezoning REZ2023-00018) evidence row
Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) · published 2026-10-26 · Government record

Locator

Campus locator · Official source · official_land_development_application_polygon_centroid evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 33 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 38.79757, -77.62296
Geometry licence: public-record-source-terms
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: official_land_development_application_polygon_centroid
Authority: Official source
Source entity: Campus
Method: official_county_land_application_polygon_centroid
Derivation: direct_geometry
Precision scope: Planar centroid of the Prince William County planning-case polygon for SUP2027-00008 (identical to REZ2023-00018 and to the county's Gardner Property campus polygon): one ring, 82.56 geodesic acres, about 796 by 912 m. It locates the application property; the positions of the proposed buildings and substation within it are not documented.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The county publishes no positional accuracy for its planning-case polygons; the centroid represents an 83-acre application property, and no building or substation layout is documented.
Geometry evidence: b28b4ab1

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.

Evidence for Gardner Property Data Center Campus (McGraws Corner Drive and Nolan Road, Gainesville, Prince William County)
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Prince William County Data Center Campuses layer (78 campus polygons, captured 26 October 2026) Archived copy	Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Prince William County, Virginia	`4155040d260f66b261d865c088f261e4a70426ce2e93d5f17f018ffcc06739ad` Retained source material; see source provenance
Prince William County parcels intersecting the Gardner Property case envelope (McGraws Corner Drive, Gainesville) Archived copy	Prince William County, Virginia (Real Estate Assessments cadastral GIS) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Prince William County, Virginia	`5b4cd4fb772df2cf76165ce89d7b5cd580033502fcf03a7455528196b12875e1` Retained source material; see source provenance
Prince William County Pending Planning Cases layer definition (CountyMapper Land Development layer 2) Archived copy	Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Prince William County, Virginia	`16eedcaff51a21ec59d3ce0d224525ff5aa159d86f1460adc5f2bd4f20f4f275` Retained source material; see source provenance
Prince William County Pending Planning Cases: all 134 active cases (captured 26 October 2026) Archived copy	Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) Government record	Site and project identity	2026-10-26	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Prince William County, Virginia	`b223c7dbc7c3e8c8ccc8e1cb803d82904da55ac5802f1f24ede2360ee0aa6c9f` Retained source material; see source provenance
Prince William County Pending Planning Cases: Gardner Property (SUP2027-00008 and concurrent rezoning REZ2023-00018) Archived copy	Prince William County, Virginia (Planning Office GIS, CountyMapper Land Development service) Government record	Project announcement, Geometry	2026-10-26	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	Prince William County, Virginia	`d2ee84f19ccc1a4a08e206d26b31de9846a9ef13a807ab683354d302a18fdca3` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Gardner Property Data Center Campus (McGraws Corner Drive and Nolan Road, Gainesville, Prince William County) [site vcc-site-72686694ec26fc3c593c]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-72686694ec26fc3c593c/

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