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Article: Will Fort Monroe serve parochial or strategic interests?(Local)

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The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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January 18, 2007
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Byline: STEVEN T. CORNELIUSSEN

BY STEVEN T. CORNELIUSSEN

For those who cherish the region's authentic Tidewater character, developers offer dread: that billion-dollar Shore Drive travesty envisioned to mar the Lynnhaven River . Or those high-density condos lurching skyward beside the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel at Willoughby Spit.

In Hampton, a powerful handful of people want to develop Buckroe Beach's public green space. They seek even worse for Fort Monroe, the nearly 600-acre national treasure just east of the bridge-tunnel across from Willoughby. That's closer than the Oceanfront for many Virginian-Pilot readers.

Luckily, despite ...

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