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Army Awards $60M N. VA Redevelopment Contract

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA-PBS&J and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill win the army's largest redevelopment endeavor under BRAC.

By Erika Morphy | Updated on July 27, 2006

FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA-The US Army Corps of Engineers awarded Orlando-based PBS&J and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP of Chicago a contract not to exceed $60 million to redevelop Fort Belvoir, located in the county. It is the largest redevelopment project by the army–encompassing an additional six million sf to accommodate the arrival of roughly 22,000 military and civilian personnel–under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) enacted last November.

Plans for Ft. Belvoir’s realignment will be focused around the development of a new urban center that includes offices, open spaces and community facilities, as well as infrastructure such as utilities, communications systems, roads and transit opportunities. PBS&J and SOM will be responsible for master planning, design, engineering, and program integration of the base’s realignment. The team and its 16 subconsultants are using the name Belvoir New Vision Planners.

This contract is just the start of what will be a massive realignment not only of the base itself but the nearby region as well, Kevin R. Wayer, managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle in Washington, DC, tells GlobeSt.com. “As this master plan gets underway we will see more activity in the Route 1 corridor as well as in Fairfax County.”

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