[CPEO-IRF] Springfield (VA) planned construction

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

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.

...

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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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