City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Public Hearing, Second Reading and Final Passage of an Ordinance to Create the Eisenhower West Victory Center Redevelopment District for the Purposes of Incenting the Transportation Security Administration to Move to Alexandria. [ROLL-CALL VOTE]
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ISSUE: Increasing economic and tax base growth in the City by incenting the Transportation Security Administration to select Alexandria as the site of their new headquarters.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council hold a public hearing and adopt the proposed ordinance (attached) creating the Eisenhower West Victory Center Redevelopment District on September 12, 2015.
BACKGROUND: With the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) current office building lease in Arlington and three other smaller sites in Northern Virginia expiring, the General Services Administration (GSA), on behalf of the TSA formally initiated in the Spring of 2014 a competitive process within Northern Virginia to select a headquarters for its current operations through leasing a new or existing office building. The geographic area was limited to a one-half mile radius from any Metrorail station in Northern Virginia that could be operable by the 2nd Quarter of 2015. The GSA released the formal Request for Lease Proposal document on July 14, 2014 with formal detailed responses due by August 15, 2014.
Numerous developers and property owners submitted formal proposals, including two developers with sites on Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria (JBG/Hoffman Town Center and Prudential/JLL Victory Center). The JBG/Hoffman proposal entailed the construction of a new 600,000 square foot office building for TSA; while the latter proposed fit-out nearly all o...
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