Golden, Colo.—Nearly 500 Western Area Power Administration employees will move next summer into a new three-story, 97,000 square foot office building that will be constructed at 12155 West Alameda Parkway in Lakewood.

Western is holding a groundbreaking ceremony at 10 a.m., Sept. 23 that will mark the beginning of the building's construction.

Attending the ceremony will be several hundred Western employees, retirees and invited guests. Also invited are city of Lakewood officials, representatives of the builder, Dominion Leasing, Inc. of Edmund, Okla., and officials with General Services Administration, the Federal agency which is overseeing the project.

Speakers are Michael S. Hacskaylo, Western's administrator; Polly Baca, regional administrator for GSA; and Jim Hunter, vice president of Dominion Leasing, Inc.

In addition to the ceremonial groundbreaking, a highlight of the event is a planned group photo of all Western employees who will gather on the site in a W formation.

The agency has signed a 15-year occupancy lease for the new building, which is expected to be completed next spring. Western will move to the building from its current space in the Denver West Office Park in Golden.

Western Area Power Administration is a federal agency that is part of the U.S. Department of Energy. It annually markets and transmits hydropower to more than 600 wholesale power customers, including cities, towns, rural electric cooperatives and federal and state agencies in 15 central and western states.

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