Feds Approve Homeland Security Complex

Mary Beth Sheridan / The Washington Post:
After years of battling historic preservationists, the federal government won approval to build a massive headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security on a 176-acre hilltop site east of the Anacostia River. The $3.4 billion headquarters would be one of the largest construction projects in the Washington area since the Pentagon was built in the 1940s. Advocates say it would generate economic activity in one of the city's poorer corners and provide a secure workplace for 14,000 Homeland Security employees scattered across the Washington area.

Posted by Editor at January 9, 2009 05:35 AM