[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: D.C. may get Walter Reed land

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

D.C. may get surplus Walter Reed land after all

by Jonathan O'Connell
Washington Business Journal (DC)
September 8, 2009

Three years ago D.C. tried - and failed - to get some of the property at 
the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for economic development purposes. 
Now it looks like the District will get a second crack at it.

The federal government is making 61 acres at the soon-to-be closed 
Walter Reed available to the city after the State Department said it 
won't need most of the land it requested there. The General Services 
Administration was offered the 61 acres as well, but also turned it down.

Walter Reed's D.C. campus, 6900 Georgia Ave. NW, is slated to close in 
2011 when its operations are moved to Bethesda and Fort Belvoir under 
BRAC, the Base Realignment and Closure plan.

The Army will work with city officials to form a development plan for 
the acreage, said Mark Jones, assistant for BRAC under the Army's deputy 
assistant secretary for installations and housing. Jones said the next 
steps are for D.C. to create a local redevelopment authority and begin 
soliciting public input on the best uses for the site, whether 
commercial, parks, education or otherwise. He said the earliest the Army 
expects to see a plan from the city would be the end of 2010.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/09/07/daily19.html

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Lenny Siegel
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