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Case Digest Fall
2004 District of Columbia: Transfer
of the Southeast Federal Center
District
of Columbia: Transfer of the Southeast Federal Center
Agency: General Services
Administration
As reported
in the Summer 2004 Case
Digest, the U.S. General Services Administration
intends to sell or lease most of the Southeast Federal Center in
Washington, DC, to private developers for mixed-use development.
The transfer
project will affect six contributing structures within the National
Register-eligible Washington Navy Yard Annex Historic District as
well as the contextual industrial naval history of the center. The
site is also adjacent to the Washington Navy Yard, which is a National
Historic Landmark, and the DC Water and Sewer Authority Main Pumping
Station of 1908, which is eligible for the National Register.
GSA also has
identified four National Register-eligible archeological resources
at the site, eight areas of archeological potential, and four other
properties that must be further evaluated.
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The ACHP extensively reviewed the General Services Administrations
(GSAs) draft Programmatic Agreement to address the long-term implications
of the proposed development of the Southeast Federal Center.
Southeast Federal Center, Washington, DC (photo: GSA)
While the draft agreement clarified the compliance responsibilities between
GSA and the developer, Forest City Works, it lacked specific mitigation
measures to address the range of activities related to selecting a developer,
transferring the centers 42 acres, reviewing the design, and implementing
the project.
The ACHP, GSA, Forest City Works, the Washington, DC, State Historic
Preservation Officer, and other consulting parties negotiated a master
plan, historic preservation design guidelines, historic covenants, and
a maintenance plan for the property transfer.
In August 2004, the ACHP gave GSA its final comments on the project.
GSA indicated that a final draft of the agreement would be available in
October 2004. For background information on this case, visit the Summer
2004 Case Digest at www.achp.gov/casessum04DC.html.
Staff contact: Hector
Abreu Cintron
Posted December 17, 2004
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