A few years ago, Front Royal, Virginia was set to plan a new data center and shopping center that would bring jobs to an area devastated 25 years earlier with the closure of a rayon manufacturing plant.
When the plant closed, The Washington Post reported, 1,300 people lost their jobs and 440 acres of Front Royal was left decimated by toxic waste. In 2014, however, the land had been restored and the area appeared ready to relaunch, so to speak.
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