[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, VETERANS: "The first residents of the new 66-acre Walter Reed [DC] redevelopment will be 77 formerly homeless veterans"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The first residents of the new 66-acre Walter Reed redevelopment will be 77 formerly homeless veterans

By Bonnibelle Bishop 
DC Line
November 12, 2019

Chad Jackson, a vendor for Street Sense Media and a formerly homeless veteran, served as a welder in the military from 1993 to 2000. When he returned home after his service, Jackson instantly felt the need to escape.

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Now, Jackson is one of 77 veterans receiving housing this fall at The Parks, a new community being built at the former Walter Reed campus in Ward 4. He and the other veterans should be able to move into their new housing in the renovated Abrams Hall by the end of the month, according to one of the developers.

The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC shut down in 2011 after the military hospital relocated to Bethesda, Maryland, to combine with the National Naval Medical Center. The move resulted in 110 acres of surplus land, which was initially offered to non-military federal agencies. The General Services Administration and the State Department requested some of the land for a foreign missions center, leaving 66.5 acres in Northwest DC for transfer to the DC government and ultimately new development on prime land between Georgia Avenue NW and Rock Creek Park

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For the entire article, see
https://thedcline.org/2019/11/12/the-first-residents-of-the-new-66-acre-walter-reed-redevelopment-will-be-77-formerly-homeless-veterans/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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