City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: APRIL 4, 2014
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: RASHAD M. YOUNG, CITY MANAGER/s/
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Public Hearing, Second Reading and Final Passage of an Ordinance to Amend the Performance Standards of the Eisenhower Science Redevelopment District. [ROLL-CALL VOTE]
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ISSUE: Amendment facilitating the implementation of the National Science Foundation headquarters project.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council hold the public hearing and adopt the ordinance on April 12 to amend the performance standards of the Eisenhower Avenue Science Redevelopment District.
BACKGROUND: In June of 2013 the federal General Services Administration (GSA) announced that the Hoffman Town Center site at 2401 Eisenhower Avenue in the City of Alexandria was selected in a Northern Virginia regional GSA-run competition to be the site of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) new headquarters. City Council, the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership (AEDP), and a number of developers in the City had worked on entering three sites in Alexandria into this important, highly competitive NSF site selection process. The resulting GSA awarded NSF lease of 680,848 rentable square feet of office space at 2401 Eisenhower Avenue was the largest executed private or public sector office space lease award in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in 2013.
NSF is an independent federal agency, and is the leading funder of basic science and engineering research in the United States. NSF funds approximately $7 billion in science grants annually which represents about 20% of all basic science research funding at colleges and universities in the United States. NSF employs about 2,100 persons at its headquarters operations and has indicated that it generates up to 90,000 hotel room nights annually. These hotel ro...
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