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Kalahari water resort to open hotel, convention center in Spotsylvania, gets 20 years of tax breaks

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In about two years, the beach will come to Spotsylvania County.

On Tuesday, July 12, the Board of Supervisors approved a rezoning, redesignating 135 acres of rural farmland between Route 1 and Interstate 95 from agricultural land to commercial.

In turn, Kalahari Resorts will build indoor and outdoor waterparks, a convention center, and a 12-story, 900-room hotel on the site, awakening the Thornburg area, referred to by county planners as a "sleeping giant" ripe for tourism.

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