[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Grand Vision for Former Home of Walter Reed Hospital" (DC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grand Vision for Former Home of Walter Reed Hospital

By EUGENE L. MEYER
New York Times
November 19, 2013

WASHINGTON - The boxy Brutalist hospital built in the late 1970s  
stands virtually vacant, as do brick buildings erected during World  
War I, officers’ quarters dating to the 1920s or before, and myriad  
other structures that together make up the former Army medical center  
named for Walter Reed, the physician who linked mosquitoes to yellow  
fever at the turn of the 20th century.

But the 110-acre site that has been dormant since September 2011  
after 102 years in operation will not remain so. The former Walter  
Reed Army Medical Center, where generations of wounded soldiers  
received treatment and where President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen.  
Douglas MacArthur died, is due for a civilian makeover.

This month, local officials in Washington named a master development  
team headed by Hines, a national firm based in Houston, with two  
local companies, Urban Atlantic and Triden. Plans call for 3.1  
million square feet of development, costing $1 billion, over perhaps  
20 years of construction - including 2,097 residential units, 250,000  
square feet of retail space, 90,000 square feet of offices, a science  
center, restaurants, a Hyatt hotel and conference center, and 20  
acres of open space.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/realestate/commercial/grand-vision- 
for-former-home-of-walter-reed-hospital.html

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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>
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