WaPo article: AFRH head removed "after he failed to aggressively pursue revenue-generating proposals"

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Note that the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) is located due north of Bloomingdale and the Washington Hospital Center.

There have been a number of posts here at the Bloomingdale Neighborhood blog over the years regarding the development of the ARFH site.  You can Google search against www.bloomingdaleneighborhood.blogspot.com.

The head of the Armed Forces Retirement Home agency was removed Thursday from his job operating two military retirement homes after years of festering financial problems at campuses in Washington and Mississippi, said a senior Pentagon official.
 
Timothy Kangas, the agency’s chief operating officer since April 2016, was let go after he failed to aggressively pursue revenue-generating proposals that might free the campuses from chronic insolvency, said David Tillotson III, a senior Pentagon official who oversees the agency. In a conference call with reporters, Tillotson said Kangas was especially reluctant to proceed with any plans to capitalize on the aging golf course at the Washington campus, known as the Old Soldiers’ Home.
         
Kangas’ departure, effective immediately, comes after recent news reports in The Military Times and the Post that publicized the retirement homes’ financial problems. In July, the Post reported on an internal Defense Department document that said the retirement home agency faced a projected loss of $247 million for fiscal years 2017 to 2025 and that it was beset by a “lack of financial oversight and business acumen.”

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