Fort Meade BRAC contract awarded

Posted Mar 24, 2008 @ 3:20 pm, Viewed by 238 Visitors, Read 242 Times.
March 5, 2008
 
According to a recent Examiner article, the Virginia company Hensel Phelps Construction Co. has been awarded the $370 million dollar contract to build the new  Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) facility on the site of the current golf course on Fort Meade.  The 1 million square foot facility will house an estimated 4,000 DISA employees who are relocating from the current Arlington VA facility in September 2011.   The DISA organization represents the largest segment of workers associated with the BRAC move.  According to BRAC spokesman Army Colonel Kenneth McCreedy "this is the first tangible step in the BRAC transformation at Fort Meade."
 
The impact of these 4,000 new workers and the additional 4,000 that are now expected to come as part of an influx of DOD and government contractors is yet unknown.  There is so much information circulating with varying numbers and data that even a well read BRAC aficionado can't make sense of it.  What is becoming abundantly clear is that the expected impact of over 200 families to arrive in 2008 has not and is not taking place.  Construction delays, tax debates between the county, the base and the developer as well as questions about Anne Arundel County's readiness for the additional residents (infrastructure and schools)  appear to have slowed the project.  To date I have seen no new publications that give us a clear outline of the revised timeline. 
 
A study to determine how many families will commute from their existing homes and how many families will make the Fort meade area their home is currently underway.  We in the real estate industry will be waiting for those results with fingers crossed!
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