AWC Selects Five LSDBEs for Management Program

WASHINGTON, DC-The Anacostia Waterfront Corp. has selected five Local, Small and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise-led companies to help manage the $140 million of direct investment it is making on the waterfront here. These firms are Smoot Construction, McKissack and McKissack, Setty and Associates International with URS Greiner, Lance Bailey and Associates with Parsons Brinkerhoff Douglass Quade, and Hardie Industries with Tetra Tech.

Uwe Brandes, AWC vice president of Capital Projects, tells GlobeSt.com that there will be a second tier of projects–those that AWC has partnered with private sector companies to develop–on which these firms will advise AWC. He could not provide a dollar figure for these projects although it is well beyond $140 million, he says.

The direct investment in which AWC is involved is more than enough to occupy the five companies though, he adds. “We will assign each company to one of the five projects we have under way.”