[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "At Walter Reed site [DC], officials push for a town center"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

At Walter Reed site, officials push for a town center

By Jonathan O'Connell
Washington Post
October 14, 2012

It has been more than a year since patients walked down the ramp from  
the massive concrete hospital, wheelchairs rolled along the paved  
paths that crisscross the lawns and nurses headed to work stepped off  
the No. 70 bus at the corner of Georgia Avenue NW and Butternut  
Street NW.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center closed a year ago, and District  
planners, Army officials and residents from surrounding neighborhoods  
have been thinking about how every inch of the campus may be used in  
the future, from the stately hospital building where President Dwight  
D. Eisenhower died to the 1,000-space underground parking garage  
built in the 1970s.

The base's closure has been painful for businesses along Georgia  
Avenue NW that fed and supplied those frequenting Walter Reed, but  
the city has proposed a town center development in the hospital's  
stead, and a number of affordable-housing builders and schools have  
already claimed portions of the site. By early next year, District  
officials hope to begin a search for a private development partner.

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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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