King of the Road: The unstoppable Wendell Wood
A few weeks ago, we contacted developer Wendell Wood to ask if he would respond to rumors that he was building a palatial mansion in Southern Albemarle County. When he called back, he didn't want to talk about his house, though he neither confirmed nor denied the rumors. He just changed the subject.
"Why would you want to write about some house I'm building?" he said. "The real story is the expansion around NGIC and how it's going to bring 1,500 new jobs to the area. Now that's a story."
Wood offered instead to show us his new 122,000-square-foot high-security office building adjacent to NGIC, the National Ground Intelligence Center, on Route 29, which he plans to lease to the federal government when the new structure is completed in March. As is often the case with big developments, getting approval on the project was not easy.
As is also often the case, Wood got his way.
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