[CPEO-IRF] Manassas Park (VA) proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New BRAC site plan offered

Tom Ramstack
Washington Times (DC)
November 8, 2007

American Building Corp. joined the competition this week to develop one 
of the sites the Defense Department will use as it reshuffles its 
Washington-area staff and facilities under the Base Realignment and 
Closure Act.

The real estate development company submitted a proposal to build a 
45-acre campus for the Defense Department's Washington Headquarters 
Service in Manassas Park, Va.

The $1.5 billion project would result in about 6,500 Defense Department 
employees moving to a community built for them near the Virginia Railway 
Express' Blooms Grove Station. Each Defense Department job would create 
an average of another 1.5 private jobs, resulting in about 20,000 new 
jobs for Manassas Park if the Defense Department awards American 
Building Corp. the contract, company officials said.

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For the entire article, see
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071108/BUSINESS/111080018/1006

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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