Relocating Walter Reed
25 06 2008
As you may have heard, the old Walter Reed hospital in D.C. has been slated to move to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. As you can see from the rendering, the plan is to expand the grounds of the Naval Hospital around the older historic buildings. We especially like how two of the new buildings symmetrically frame the tall historic old Naval building in the center.
The relocation of facilities will include over half a million square feet of new medical office, emergency room, and patient care construction in addition to renovations of existing facilities. In addition to being the main facility for treating members of our military, the center will also become home to research and postgraduate education. The $100 million dollar project is expected to be completed by 2011. [Rendering: HKS Architects]
100 million dollars for all that? Sounds like a bargain! The actual contracted amount for the new medical facilities is currently at $641 million. And that doesn’t include all the support facilities shown in that rendering!
But what is to become of the current walter reed site on 16th/ga ave? thats the real story
is it zoned historic?