New Naval Support Facility

The Washington Business Journal reported earlier this week that the "National Capital Planning Committee commented favorably March 31 on plans for a 160,000 square foot office building and 23,000 square foot warehouse for the Navy". 

Under the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005, The Naval Support Facility Anacostia and Bolling Air Force Base will join forces to become Joint Base Anacostia Bolling.  Some 816 workers will shift from rented space in Arlington to the new facility on government-owned land near St. Elizabeths.

According to the proposal submitted to NCPC, the LEED Silver, 5-floor administrative building is 75 feet in height with an 18-foot penthouse, for a total building height of 93 feet. The floor plate for the administration building is approximately 32,000 square feet. There is also a green roof proposed covering approximately 50 percent of the roof.

This building is designated as a sensitive compartmentalized information facility (SCIF), and as such will not include any windows, except at the ground floor entrance.

Also included as part of this project is a 23,000 square foot, one-story warehouse, 23 feet in height. The warehouse is north of and adjacent to the main administrative building. The warehouse will mainly be used for storing files and includes three loading docks on the west side. The administrative building will be a steel structure and clad in brick and concrete masonry units (CMUs).

The NCPC sought to ensure that the views to and from St. Elizabeth's campus were not adversely impacted by the new Naval Support Facility.  As part of their proposal, the Navy submitted views from the St. Elizabeths campus looking towards the NSMA building. The images provided both identifies the location of the NSMA building and the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (USCG) as each relates to the other from different vantage points.

The image below shows the main view from the US Coast Guard facility (looking toward the Air Force Base).

The image below shows the NW view from the US Coast Guard facility with the new Navy facility digitally added to the background. (note the construction for the US Coast Guard headquarters happening in the foreground).