The development of the AFRH site will most definitely impact Bloomingdale, located south of the site.
Eighty-acre development plotted for Armed Forces Retirement Home
With its rolling hills and forested paths, the Armed Forces Retirement Home, located on 272 acres in Northwest D.C., provides American veterans a bucolic setting in the middle of the city.
But the home is also in need of a funding source to provide for its future. And with neighborhoods on all sides booming, its managers see a real estate opportunity.
Next month the Old Soldiers’ Home, as it is often referred, will begin seeking a private partner capable of developing up to 80 acres of its campus, located between North Capitol Street to the east, Rock Creek Church Road and Park Place to the west and Irving Street to the south.
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A plan to redevelop the former McMillan Sand Filtration plant, south of the Old Soldiers’ site, only passed a historic preservation panel and the D.C. Council after considerable community opposition in which residents requested less development and more park space.
The General Services Administration, which is overseeing the project for the home, says it will issue a request for proposals seeking a development partner this month. Companies will have 120 days to respond and the GSA hopes to pick a partner by the fall of 2015.
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Apparently Washington DC elected officials (and all those faceless bureaucrats on the boards that determine our lives) HAVE NO PLAN to develop, maintain or expand OPEN SPACES as parks, play areas, recreation, that I am aware of. If there is such a plan they've hidden it away under the tax projections based on new development. They just want to just keep cramming in more and more glass and steel and concrete and cars into what was once a livable, drivable city.
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