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The federal government is expected to name a short list of sites it will consider for a future FBI headquarters campus in coming days, ending weeks of speculation about which locations best fit what some call an increasingly rigid set of requirements.
On June 2 the General Services Administration, which is managing the process, received proposals from developers and local governments interested in offering properties to the FBI for what might be the largest new federal campus since the CIA’s Langley headquarters was completed in 1961.
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GSA spokeswoman Mafara Hobson [and former Bloomingdale resident] said in a statement that laying out the security preferences didn’t constitute a change in rules, just a “review of minimum requirements” and pointed out that teams were given a deadline extension to “allow offerors time to better understand the site advertisements’ requirements and expectations and submit proposals that specifically address those requirements and expectations.”
GSA spokeswoman Mafara Hobson [and former Bloomingdale resident] said in a statement that laying out the security preferences didn’t constitute a change in rules, just a “review of minimum requirements” and pointed out that teams were given a deadline extension to “allow offerors time to better understand the site advertisements’ requirements and expectations and submit proposals that specifically address those requirements and expectations.”
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D.C. leaders may want to prepare for the possibility that the GSA could select a federally owned site even if one not submitted either by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) or any developer.
Two sources said the GSA is considering the Armed Forces Retirement Home off of North Capitol Street as a possible FBI headquarters site; one said the GSA is considering the eastern portion of the former Walter Reed Army hospital, which is still owned by the federal government but subject to an extensive planning effort by the D.C. government.
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The intrigue should end for good late next year, when the GSA plans to choose a site.
See this subsequent article on this same topic -- neither the Armed Forces Retirement Home or Walter Reed is mentioned.
Short list of potential FBI sites expected soon
Maryland and Virginia have ardently wooed the federal government for the big campus
Scott Roberts@ScottRobertsDC
@OConnellPostbiz latest @washingtonpost story on @FBI short list doesn't mention AFRH site north of #BloomingdaleDCtinyurl.com/me27bvr - 11 Jul
Jonathan O'Connell@OConnellPostbiz
@ScottRobertsDC just a space issue. That version is going in print.
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@ScottRobertsDC just a space issue. That version is going in print.
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The development of the AFRH and McMillan Sand Filtration Site is why Bloomingdale is about to become a gigantic out-of-control construction site for the next three years. The flooding allowed Allen Lew and George Hawkins to rush the First Street Tunnel planning process and bypass proper planning and community involvement. They knew that they would never be able to get this project permitted and build straight through the center of Bloomingdale if it was only for development. Allen Lew even admitted at the groundbreaking that DCRA would never give the McMillan project permits without this tunnel. If you look at similar highly dense residential construction sites, like Indianapolis' CSO tunnel project, they were planned for multiple YEARS. DC Water and the Mayors' Task Force on Flooding (aka development) rushed the entire planning of this project behind closed doors with little to no community input. The community should of heard about other options available to handle the upgrade of our sewer infrastructure. Good luck neighbors living through the next few years. I sure hope they know what they are doing.
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