Why Are They Hiding Cost Of New DHS Headquarters? It's The Biggest Construction Project In GSA History
by Monica Davis
The government is building the largest construction project in GSA history. This new monster government building will host the entire Homeland Security complex, from Coast Guard to FBI and ICE and more.
It is a massive project of 1.3 million square feet of parking, and 4.5 million feet of workspace. It’s larger than the Pentagon, but, there’something funny going on.
The government will tell you that it’s a massive construction project, they’ll talk about its green construction techniques. But they won’t tell you how much the thing costs.
You can find out how much earth they moved for the first phase, which is the Coast Guard HQ. You can find out that the excavation of dirt for the Coast Guard HQ is the largest one in DC history. But we don’t know how much this thing cost.
New DHS Headquarters is Largest Construction Project in GSA History
A dazzling new headquarters building for the U.S. Coast Guard is nearing completion across the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. This 1.3 million square foot complex, designed by Chicago-based Perkins + Will, marks the first phase of the creation of a headquarters campus for the entire Department of Homeland Security. It is located on the campus of the former St. Elizabeths Hospital, the first mental health facility created by the federal government and a National Historic Landmark.
No matter how many superlatives one chooses to use, it is difficult to accurately depict the sheer magnitude of this development. When complete, the DHS campus will comprise 4.5 million square feet of work space and 1.5 million square feet of structured parking. It is the largest construction project in the Washington metropolitan area since the Pentagon was built during World War II. Up to 14,000 DHS employees will be working on site. The Coast Guard portion alone involved the largest excavation project in DC history, creating 1.6 million cubic yards of dirt. The campus is also the largest construction project GSA has ever done.
Historic preservation is a key component, saving and revitalizing a site that was abandoned and decrepit. A total of 51 of the 62 buildings that contribute to its historic character will be modernized and reused. The original landscaping scheme, considered to be an integral part of the therapeutic environment for patients there, will be recreated. All new buildings will be low rise, so that views of the site high on a ridge above the Potomac will be preserved, as will the magnificent views from the site of the surrounding area.
Nor are environmental concerns being overlooked. GSA is aiming for Gold certification under the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) program of the U.S. Green Buildings Council. Four fifths of the roofs will be green. It will have its own co-generation facility. The Coast Guard portion of the project, located on a site that accommodates 45% of the runoff from rainstorms on the 173-acre campus, is being designed so that it will absorb all of the runoff from up to a 15-year storm event. SOURCE GSA
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We need to turn Washington DC and all it’s inhabitants into a radioactive wasteland before that cancer kills the host: We The People.
i agree with you.
It’s called infrastructure. Government spending has always created the growth and demand to us get out of recessions when private spending is anemic. We can never deal with long term debt problems until there is enough growth. Even Europe is beginning to recognize that austerity has done more harm than good.
Republicans are willing to destroy our economy with spiteful, failed austerity measures just to make a black president look as bad as possible. They have no solutions or alternatives.
Obama needs no help in looking bad all by himself! The only thing he has going for him is his color, and that is not anything to be proud off. And hasn’t Obama run this country into trillions of OUR dollars into debt , mostly to help our enemies? You are sooo missinformed to think otherwise.
The fact that you’re playing the race card just negated your post, although it’s obvious you’ve partaken of the liberal koolade in great quantities.
Hey Einstein, he’s half white and besides who cares what color he is? Republicans will destroy the economy? LOL! Barry is destroying it faster and deeper than all presidents combined. This may be hard to believe but he is even starting to make Jimmy Carter look better
You are an idiot! So it’s all about race and no matter how badly Obama screws up it is the Republicans fault!!
Obviously NWO building agenda. It really can’t be anymore obvious or reluctant to happen sooner or later. Nothing good comes from a funded thug organization that does more from than good for the people.
*Obviously NWO building agenda. It really can’t be anymore obvious or reluctant to happen sooner or later. Nothing good comes from a funded thug organization that does more crime than good for the people.
It is 3.9 billion dollars, thank you. Check your facts before posting a story.
~Tasmanian Devil
They are hiding it because we let them! We let them because some of us are lemmings and don’t “have” the time to concern themselves with facts, and some figure “there’s nothing we can do about it”! A scorpion will do what a scorpion does, even if it’s in the middle of a pond. “They” (Obama and Company) are doing it to get Democrats re-elected! Have any idea how much more this building will cost by the time the job gets done? See the tunnel issues in Boston for a 10% view of what you are going to get). We (some) are allowing this
stuff to happen because we want Obama to look good to protect the voters image. YOU SIGNED A BLANK CHECK AND GAVE IT TO A GOVERNMENT THAT BANKRUPTED THE BANKS WITH STUPIDITY AND THEN REWARDED THEM BY BAILING THEM OUT WITH TAXPAYER MONEY! I am a positive person. I see nothing positive about this administration and if you do, It doesn’t balance the bad crap we have been driven into. 
I think this is a great idea. I am more than sure someone calculated the cycle cost on the new building vs. all the spread out buildings in current use. Add the energy efficient equipment and the efficiency of having all the departments in one place and you will more than make up any cost over runs that may have been involved. At least this time our money went into something tangible instead of a bunch of worthless derivatives. I say good job.
This infrastructure is being built to house mostly unconstitutional agencies .. yes, it is being built for the New World Order folks. They’re sucking every last nickel out of the American people before they put us down.
INFRASTRUCTURE ??!! Are you serious ? On some unfathomable level, you really believe this is good for the taxpayer ? An administration (admittedly not the first ) that has driven this country to bankruptcy, both financial, and moral, that has proven, from stimulus, to education, to… well.. you name it, his plans fail. Well, maybe that’s inaccurate, that would assume that his plans were honestly intended to do what he claims. Personally, given the evidence, I believe he IS accomplishing his goals. The absolute destruction of this nation. INFRASTRUCTURE !!
when you have so much money that you dont need money, purchasing isnt a big deal. We live in a different world than those of the elite and federal govt. They dont care about money cause they don’t count it, inflation, recessions, revenue, etc. None of that applies to them, its only use who believe and abide by the money system, so only us are affected. Wake up, yesterday
The deficit is falling faster under Obama tan ever. Even Fox News agrees:
“For the entire year the Congressional Budget Office is forecasting the deficit will total $845 billion. If correct, that would be first time government hasn’t run an annual deficit in excess of $1 trillion since 2008.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/12/january-surplus-shrinks-2013-us-budget-deficit/#ixzz2ZzfJkdNE
Some idiots once said we coukd have endless global wars financed by tax cuts. Who was that? I have Republican amnesia.
Homeland Security’s New $3.9 Billion Headquarters: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-12/the-department-of-homeland-securitys-new-3-dot-9b-headquarters
Maybe they are not telling you that the money for the project
And many others was acquired from hacking
Into brokers and while all the families became homeless, they
Roll in the dough and accordongly acquire many huge companies worldwide
Many hotels, resorts, oil, gas, electric, etc etc etc to infinity
So eat your heart out while they own it all.
It just goes to show they made hacking illegal and fraud but
For them and their anonymous peers it became a necessity because
It paid off IN A BIG WAY, HUGE WAY
ALL IS LEGAL FOR THEM TILL GOD SHOWS THEM WHAT LEGAL MEANS
Guys wake up, this is nothing
They are worldwide like that tovthe most remote places of the world.
They hacked and stole and hacked and stole
How do you think they acquired all the equipment to
Hack into the WHOLE WORLD. How do you think
They paid off everyone worldwide, even Stephen Harper
Is with them and add all rulers. See who is part of the
Bilderbergs meetings, and all the banjs and banksters
And and and on and on and on.
HUGE MONEY WAS STOLEN. I AM ONE OF THEIR
VICTIMS . I KNOW THEM AND THE CHINESE
ELDERS ARE WITH THEM AND CHINESE GOV
AND ALL JOYFULLY HACKED AND JOYFULLY
EACH BECAME QUADRILLIONAIRES WHILE
WE STRUGGLE TO EAT, THEY PIG OUT ON THE BEST,
LIVE IN HUGE MANSIONS, DRIVE THE BEST CARS,
OWN TONS IN THE WORLD AND THEY SUCKED
OUR BLOOD LIKE VAMPIRES THAT THEY ARE.
BUT I GUARANTEE YOU THAT THEY WILL GET IT GOOD
BECAUSE GOD HAS A SURPRISE FOR THEM
FOR ALL THE SUFFERINGS THEY HAVE CAUSED
GOD WILL WHIP THEIR DIRTY BUTTS WITH
BALLS OF FIRE AND THEY WILL BAWL AND BAWL
AND BAWL FOR ETERNITY
OH GOD TOLD ME HE WILL GET THEM GOOD
FOR WHAT THEY DID
I wonder what would happen if there was a march on DC….100 million strong?