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“The bank offered to sell us the lot at below-market price if we promised to build on it, rather than just flip it,” according to McCarthy. The county paid about $111,000 for the lot—a bargain price by today’s standards. This action came at the March Board of Supervisors meeting but was not reported in the print edition of the Rappahannock News, so few people knew about it.
It’s understandable why Rappahannock National Bank would want a new county government center next door—more traffic, more potential customers, and a possible magnet for additional offices or shops for the commercial center it hopes to develop on the site. But why would county officials want to move government offices out of town and on to the highway?
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