[CPEO-IRF] Future of Walter Reed Hospital site (DC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

After Defense Decision, a Realigned Landscape
D.C. Considers Future of Hospital Site

By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post 
August 27, 2005


Hours after a federal commission recommended closing Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, District officials started drawing up wish lists for the
113-acre site. Council members imagined acres of housing, while the
mayor conjured visions of an "urban gateway" with the commercial pizazz
of downtown Silver Spring.

Realizing those dreams will be neither quick nor easy, federal and local
officials said yesterday. A host of obstacles stands in the way, from
potential environmental contamination on the site to the possibility
that the federal government might want to keep Walter Reed for purposes
of its own.

But the District should move quickly to map out a new master plan for
the property, according to those familiar with the base-closure process.
And within the next few months, they said, city officials should begin
the labor-intensive process of persuading Congress and the Pentagon to
buy into their vision.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601782.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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