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The Conservation Fund acquires 1,000-acre Fones Cliffs property at auction for $8.1M
The Conservation Fund announced Friday it has acquired nearly 1,000 acres along the Rappahannock River in Richmond County to protect the largest remaining unconserved portion of Fones Cliffs. “These are iconic, 80- to 100-feet-tall cliffs in some places,” said Bryan Hofmann, deputy director of Friends of the Rappahannock, a regional nonprofit conservation group. “Folks like […] The post The Conservation Fund acquires 1,000-acre Fones Cliffs property at auction for $8.1M appeared first on Virginia Mercury.
Controversial Fones Cliffs Planned Development Site Now Up for Bankruptcy Auction
Plans for luxury development on a strip of forested cliffs along Virginia’s Rappahannock River may not come to fruition, a bankruptcy sale notice confirms. The 1,000-acre property on an ecologically and historically valuable stretch of Fones Cliffs in Richmond County will be auctioned off during an online sale on Nov. 3 to help satisfy the owners’ debts.
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