[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Walter Reed plan on way to DC Council

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Walter Reed Plan Approved, On Its Way to Council

by Lydia DePillis
Washington City Paper (DC)
January 26, 2012

Ten months after the lines at Walter Reed were redrawn in the  
District's favor, there's finally a plan for how the campus will be  
redeveloped. Last night, the local redevelopment committee approved a  
base re-use plan that will the go to the Council as a bill for  
approval, and then to the federal Department of Housing and Urban  
Development.

What's in it? Pretty much what's been contemplated from the  
beginning: 3.1 million gross square feet of development, of which  
over half will be residential, a quarter office space, and the rest  
retail and "creative" space. Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School  
will get 100,000 square feet for a middle and high school, Latin  
American Montessori Bilingual charter school gets 30,000 square feet,  
So Others Might Eat will maintain 40 units of housing for homeless  
seniors, HELP USA will build 75 units of low-income housing, and the  
Transitional Housing Corporation will get 6,000 square feet of office  
space. There will be no bus maintenance or storage facilities,  
according to specific language in the plan (so much for that dream of  
redeveloping bus barns on upper 14th Street and in Friendship Heights).
 ...


For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/01/26/ 
walter-reed-plan-approved-on-its-way-to-council/

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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
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