The developer of the rejected Tidewater Logistics Center multi-warehouse complex could submit a scaled-back version of the controversial project within the next few days, according to Economic Development Director Kristi Sutphin.
Isle of Wight County’s Economic Development Authority remains under contract with Meridian Property Purchaser LLC to sell an EDA-owned 83-acre parcel fronting the four-lane Route 460 on the outskirts of the town of Windsor despite county supervisors voting 4-1 in June to deny Meridian’s application to rezone 154 acres of farmland and forestry for industrial use. The acreage includes the EDA-owned land and two non-EDA parcels owned by Hollowell Holdings LLC.
Twenty-seven days after the vote, Meridian submitted two revised conceptual plans to the county, each dated July 10, showing four warehouses instead of the five originally proposed, but hadn’t as of that date formally submitted a new application for industrial zoning…