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The Graduate School to expand with new campus on D.C.'s Southwest waterfront

The Graduate School to expand with new campus on D.C.'s Southwest waterfront

By Jonathan O'Connell
Washington Post
March 9, 2011


The school plans to lease 190,000 square feet at the corner of Maine Avenue and Ninth Street. It will keep its leases at L'Enfant Plaza. (Image courtesy of the Wasington Post)

"The Graduate School USA, formerly an affiliate of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, plans to more than double its physical size in coming years by opening a new campus in a planned redevelopment of the District's Southwest waterfront.

The school serves about 200,000 people annually in mostly non-degree courses, many aimed at preparing them to work in the federal government.

But Jerry Ice, president and chief executive, said the school needs more space. The 47 classrooms the school leases at L'Enfant Plaza are nearly booked every day from early morning until 10 p.m., he said. The school will lease an additional 190,000 square feet - it has about 130,000 now - in a building planned for the corner of Maine Avenue and Ninth Street SW, part of a nearly $2 billion, 10-year project by developers PN Hoffman and Madison Marquette..."

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