Metro chooses new headquarters at L’Enfant Plaza
The transit agency’s existing mother ship at Judiciary Square is expected to be put up for sale in spring 2019.
Washington Post
October 30, 2018
By Martine Power
Metro's new headquarters in L'Enfant Plaza is expected to be LEED certified and will include space for retail and commercial enterprises that the transit agency hopes will bring in extra revenue. (WMATA)
"After more than four decades at Judiciary Square, Metro will move its headquarters to L’Enfant Plaza and set up shop in a soon-to-be-renovated office building, the agency said Tuesday.
That building, at 300 Seventh Street SW, is a vacant office structure. If the Metro board approves the purchase at a finance committee meeting next month, the deal could close by the end of the year. After that, Metro estimates it would be two years of reconstructive and design work before the majority of the agency’s 1,300 office workers would be able to move in.
Agency officials did not say how much it would cost to buy the building, known as the “Reporters Building,” or renovate it. At least part of the cost would be offset by the sale of Metro’s current headquarters, the hulking Jackson Graham Building at Judiciary Square, which has been valued between $56.2 million and $132 million..."
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