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Pleasure House Point
Once destined to become the Indigo Dunes condominium development, 122-acre Pleasure House Point instead remains the largest undeveloped area along the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This area ? scattered with marsh islands, white beaches and thick woodland ? is at the center of a decade long effort to purchase the land for preservation as open space. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Trust for Public Land have worked together to organize the purchase of Pleasure House Point and raise the $13 million needed to buy the land from its current owners, Wells Fargo Bank. A portion of this property will become an environmental education center with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. (Photo/Morgan Heim)