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Concerns about nuclear terrorism could bring thousands of high-paying government jobs to the Fredericksburg area Date published: 8/13/2005
By MICHAEL ZITZ Last week, President Bush introduced 1st District Rep. Jo Ann Davis to a National Scout Jamboree crowd of 60,000, and thanked her for helping to keep the event at Fort. A.P. Hill. She co-sponsored a bill to blunt a court challenge to the legality of the government hosting the quasi-religious organization. Davis, a Republican whose district extends from Stafford County to the Hampton Roads area, hopes that before too long she'll be in the position of returning the favor--thanking the president for help in bringing a national intelligence agency to the same Caroline County Army installation. She's been lobbying the White House recently in favor of locating the fledgling office of the National Intelligence Director, mandated by the Sept. 11 Commission, in the Fredericksburg area. And Davis, who lives in Gloucester, has been working for two years to get Homeland Security, the department created in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, moved to Fort A.P. Hill. W. Rodger Provo, a commercial real estate developer and broker, said this week that some real estate speculation going on in Caroline and Spotsylvania counties has to do with the expectation that such a move is likely. Provo, a Fredericksburg resident, said housing developments near New Post in Spotsylvania County are at least partly inspired by the expectation that as many as 15,000 jobs could come to nearby Fort A.P. Hill. If that were to happen, Provo said, "It would be like another Dahlgren [Navy Base]" was plopped down in the Fredericksburg area. He suspects that many of the jobs would be filled by federal workers and contractors who live here and commute north.
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