Thursday, February 7, 2013
Federal officials will detail design elements of the re-designed federal facility on Sangamore Road Thursday evening.
Thursday evening, officials with the Army Corps of Engineers are set to detail design elements and a construction timeline for the Intelligence Community Campus being developed on Bethesda's Sangamore Road. The federal facility is the former site of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGIA employees were transferred in to Virginia in 2011 as a part of the federally mandated Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. About 3,000 intelligence workers —about the same number of employees that worked at NGIA—are expected to work at the campus, which is being developed by the Army Corps and the Defense Intelligence Agency. According to the Army Corps of Engineers project website: The redevelopment is necessary because: 1) there is a …
Friday, February 3, 2012
Parking garage will contain 1,825 spaces, rather than the 2,200 initially planned, The Gazette reports.
A master plan for a new intelligence community campus in Bethesda has been unanimously approved by the National Capital Planning Commission, The Gazette reports. The Sangamore Road federal facility was formerly known as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGIA employees were transferred to Virginia as a part of the federally-mandated Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. The new facility, known as the Intelligence Community Campus – Bethesda, will be operated by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and proposed changes to the campus, including construction of a parking structure, are expected to begin in mid-2012. The proposed plan for the site drew fire from community members, who raised concerns about the mass of the parking …
Sunday, December 25, 2011
The Washington Post reports on concerns with re-designed campus slated for Sangamore Road federal facility.
Neighbors are voicing concerns with a proposed design for a Sangamore Road federal facility, formerly known as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, that is slated to shift to an intelligence community campus, The Washington Post reports. NGIA employees recently transferred to Virginia as a part of the federally mandated Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. The Intelligence Community Campus - Bethesda will be operated by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and proposed changes to the campus, including construction of a parking structure to fit 2200 vehicles, is expected to begin in mid-2012. About 3,000 federal employees—about the same number of employees that worked at NGIA—are expected to work at the campus, according to M-…
BL in Bethesda
5:20 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012
I live in Bethesda and work in Springfield VA, the new Geospatial building is a traffic nightmare, and now they're going to take the perfectly good facility they moved out of and stuff more federal employees in there.......go figure. Typical government efficiency! more ›