With HHS Lease Reaffirmed, NIAID is on Deck for Twinbrook
GAO: A new 15-year lease of the Parklawn Building was properly evaluated.
Twinbrook’s future as a hub for federal facilities will get its second boost in three days as JBG Companies breaks ground on the new National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases building on Fishers Lane on Wednesday morning. On Monday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office denied the final protests of three developers seeking to move the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services out of the Parklawn Building, The Washington Post reported. In March, the U.S. General Services Administration awarded a $450 million, 15-year lease to JBG to keep HHS and its 3,000 employees in the building on Fishers Lane near the Twinbrook Metro station. The developer is spending $270 million to renovate 932,391 square feet of office space in the…
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Michelle
3:56 pm on Wednesday, August 3, 2011
If it helps the neighborhoods and businesses, and the investors are committed to greening up the area a little (hooray for the link to the hiker biker trail!), then it's good news! As an aside and slightly off topic, I just attempted to bike commute from Rockville (near Croydon Creek) to Bethesda yesterday for the first time via the Twinbrook bike route to the Bethesda Trolley Trail... It was … more ›