2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 13 May 2006 19:34:05 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Walter Reed Hospital (DC) to go to GSA, State Department
 
U.S. Plan to Keep Land Frustrates D.C. Officials

By Elissa Silverman
Washington Post
May 11, 2006

The Army has decided to sell the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus to two federal agencies, disappointing District officials who had hoped to gain control of the 113-acre property in upper Northwest Washington and turn it into a mix of homes, shops and offices.

Instead of returning the historic site to the city's tax rolls, the Army intends to sell 34 acres to the General Services Administration for government office space and the rest of the land to the State Department, which would build a compound for chanceries.

D.C. officials said they received informal word of the decision last week at a conference in Atlanta on the military base closings approved last year. The confirmation came Tuesday, when the Army published a list of the bases deemed surplus federal government property, and Walter Reed was not among them.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002140.html

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