2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 28 Jul 2007 17:05:47 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Springfield (VA) planned construction
 
Springfield Sees New Future With Influx of Army Workers

By Bill Turque
Washington Post
July 28, 2007

For a community best known as the spot where three interstate highways cross, just about any news of people coming to live or work -- and not merely to pass through -- is good news.

"There's a tendency to put Springfield on the back burner," Bob Stockton said from his barbershop on Brandon Avenue. "Tysons always had the name for being the place. Springfield got a bad name for a while."

Stockton and others in his southeastern Fairfax County neighborhood hope that the name will be rehabilitated. On Thursday, the U.S. Army announced that it would tear down an empty General Services Administration warehouse near the Franconia-Springfield Metro station to build offices.

The decision is the cornerstone of a plan that would dramatically ramp back the move of 22,000 jobs to Fort Belvoir as part of the Pentagon's 2005 base closure and realignment recommendations. The Army has agreed to move just 8,500 jobs to the post's Engineer Proving Ground, heading off what Virginia and Fairfax officials have described as a potentially catastrophic spike in traffic congestion for the area.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702199.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
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