[CPEO-IRF] Walter Reed Hospital (DC) to go to GSA, State Department

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. Plan to Keep Land Frustrates D.C. Officials

By Elissa Silverman
Washington Post
May 11, 2006

The Army has decided to sell the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus 
to two federal agencies, disappointing District officials who had hoped 
to gain control of the 113-acre property in upper Northwest Washington 
and turn it into a mix of homes, shops and offices.

Instead of returning the historic site to the city's tax rolls, the Army 
intends to sell 34 acres to the General Services Administration for 
government office space and the rest of the land to the State 
Department, which would build a compound for chanceries.

D.C. officials said they received informal word of the decision last 
week at a conference in Atlanta on the military base closings approved 
last year. The confirmation came Tuesday, when the Army published a list 
of the bases deemed surplus federal government property, and Walter Reed 
was not among them.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002140.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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