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Article: Grant enables Southampton County, Va., to develop virtual shell building.

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By Phyllis Speidell, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 3--SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, Va. -- This rural Western Tidewater county is banking on virtual reality.

In August the Virginia Economic Development Partnership awarded Southampton County one of five $15,000 matching grants to develop a virtual shell building.

The partnership's "Virtual Building" program enables communities to market a shovel-ready building to prospective buyers -- without the risk and up-front expense that has discouraged speculative shell building construction across the state.

Shell buildings are literally empty shells that ...

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